The Truth Church

Bishop Riggen opens with Haggai 1:1-5, emphasizing the precise dating of Haggai’s prophecy—the second year of Darius—marking it as a post-exilic message for a people returned from 70 years of captivity. He reviews the first chapter: God’s call to complete the temple that the people abandoned, focusing on their own houses while the Lord’s house lay waste. He warns that the church can similarly beco...

Pastor Hilton preaches from Luke 8:43–46, focusing on Jesus’s question, “Who touched me?” He distinguishes between the crowd pressing against Jesus and the woman with the issue of blood who touched Him with desperate, intentional faith. After twelve years of suffering and spending all on physicians, she reached out and touched the border of His garment, and virtue flowed from Him instantly. Pastor...

Pastor Hilton opens 2 Kings 4:1-7, where a widow facing debt and the loss of her sons is told by Elisha to gather empty vessels, shut the door, and pour out her single pot of oil until every vessel is full. He establishes that in Scripture, a 'vessel' is any object prepared for a purpose—a tool, implement, or utensil designed by its creator. Using Paul as a primary example, he explains that God pr...

Pastor Hilton preaches from Acts 3:19-20, where Peter calls for repentance and conversion so that sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing come from the presence of the Lord. He explains that the Greek word for 'times' means a fixed, definite, limited period—the right time. Life is composed of small moments building toward a singular, God-ordained moment. Judgment also comes swiftly in...

Bishop Riggen preaches from Haggai 1, calling the present church to learn from a past prophetic message. He builds background: the captivity, the 70-year prophecy, and the return under Zerubbabel. The temple's foundation was laid, then left unfinished for 16 years while people built expensive homes and pursued personal comfort. God indicts them: "Is it time for you to dwell in your sealed houses,...

Bishop Riggen continues his series on unanswered prayer, focusing on the third hindrance: pride. He begins with Matthew 7:7, where Jesus promises that everyone who asks receives, yet believers often face unanswered prayers. Referring to James 4:6-10, he notes that God resists the proud, using a military term meaning He rages in battle against them. Pride, the bishop argues, is at the root of almos...

Reverend Hilton preaches on the power of testimony as a weapon against the accuser, based on Revelation 12:10-11. He explains that salvation and victory come because the accuser of the brethren is cast down, and believers overcome him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. He illustrates with the story of the demon-possessed man in Mark 5, who, after being delivered, wanted to f...

Pastor Hilton preached from 1 John 3:19-21, addressing the pervasive mindset of self-condemnation, shame, and worthlessness that plagues this generation. He traced this problem back to the Garden of Eden in Genesis 3, where Adam and Eve, after disobeying God, became ashamed and hid. Their shame was not from God but from believing the enemy's lie. Today, the accuser of the brethren still works to c...

Bishop Riggen continues teaching on unanswered prayer, emphasizing that Jesus promised in Matthew 7:7-11 that everyone who asks receives, yet many believers have prayed without receiving answers. He insists the fault lies not with God, who cannot lie, but with the believer. The first reason for unanswered prayer is not asking specifically, as James 4:2 states, 'You have not because you ask not.' T...

Bishop Riggen begins with Jesus’ definitive promise in Matthew 7:7-8: ask, seek, knock—and it shall be given. Not maybe or perhaps, but shall. Yet many believers have unanswered prayers. The problem is never with God, who cannot lie, but with us. The first major hindrance is simply not asking properly. James 4:2 confirms this: 'You have not because you ask not.' Often we pray vague requests—'Lord,...

Pastor Hilton opens with Hebrews 11:1, defining faith as the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. He challenges the congregation to have faith in God's power to heal and work miracles. He acknowledges that many have preached 'according to your faith,' but emphasizes that even faith as small as a mustard seed is enough for God to act. He references Mark 6:4-5, where Je...

Pastor Hilton begins with Matthew 16:13-20, where Jesus asks who people say He is, and Peter declares, 'Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.' He emphasizes that this revelation came from the Father, not flesh and blood. Building on that, he explains that Jesus is both Son of Man and Son of God, and that believers, though born of flesh like Adam, can become sons of God through the new bi...

Pastor Hilton preaches that God is looking for someone to stand in the gap for His house, as He did in Ezekiel's day. He begins by noting that life is full of transitions, with voids left by those who once filled them—whether parents providing for children or spiritual pillars who prayed and worshipped. The key is not to let the void remain empty but to step into it and fill it. The message center...