Hillside Covenant Church

Greetings, my Hillside friends! Pastor Jane here. I hope you have some fun plans for today to celebrate this BIG birthday of our country. May you sleep well tonight, with images of fireworks dancing in your heads! Then you and I will be ready to chew on a few more verses of James on Sunday morning. We will consider a topic that is near and dear to James’ heart, and we will leave with a few practic...

Greetings, my Hillside friends! Pastor Jane here. I hope you have some fun plans for today to celebrate this BIG birthday of our country. May you sleep well tonight, with images of fireworks dancing in your heads! Then you and I will be ready to chew on a few more verses of James on Sunday morning. We will consider a topic that is near and dear to James’ heart, and we will leave with a few practic...

Hello Hillside! What a stunning claim about spiritual reality James makes in this week’s passage. Can he be serious? Of course he is! Pastor James means what he says in these five surprising verses, and the possibilities for our lives are pretty tremendous. So, I (Pastor Dan) invite you to join your church family this Sunday at 10:00 AM for family connection, a message from God’s Word, and musical...

Hello Hillside! What a stunning claim about spiritual reality James makes in this week’s passage. Can he be serious? Of course he is! Pastor James means what he says in these five surprising verses, and the possibilities for our lives are pretty tremendous. So, I (Pastor Dan) invite you to join your church family this Sunday at 10:00 AM for family connection, a message from God’s Word, and musical...

Hello Hillside! Because this sermon on the very famous and challenging passage of James 2:14-26 wrung from me every last drop of wit and wisdom I have (at least until Monday morning when the new delivery arrives), I find I don’t have anything clever left for this blurb. So, I’ll simply invite you to join your church family for our weekly gathering in the presence of our loving God this Sunday at 1...

Hello Hillside! Because this sermon on the very famous and challenging passage of James 2:14-26 wrung from me every last drop of wit and wisdom I have (at least until Monday morning when the new delivery arrives), I find I don’t have anything clever left for this blurb. So, I’ll simply invite you to join your church family for our weekly gathering in the presence of our loving God this Sunday at 1...

Dear Hillside Family.  Mercy, Mercy, Mercy - the theme for this week’s sermon.  Those of you who are jazz aficionados will point out that this is the title to a jazz classic by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet.  Sorry to disappoint, but our focus will not be on jazz but it will most definitely be on mercy - our need for it, the great mercy that God gives to us and the responsibility we have to be m...

Dear Hillside Family.  Mercy, Mercy, Mercy - the theme for this week’s sermon.  Those of you who are jazz aficionados will point out that this is the title to a jazz classic by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet.  Sorry to disappoint, but our focus will not be on jazz but it will most definitely be on mercy - our need for it, the great mercy that God gives to us and the responsibility we have to be m...

Hello Hillside! Yes, it’s Saturday which means our day to gather as the family of God is just around the corner. Tomorrow’s 10:00 AM service will be special (but aren’t they all?). Looking forward to being together for musical praise, church updates, a one verse sermon from James (though don’t let that fool ya, ’cuz there’s a lot to that one verse), and more besides. Why not call someone you’ve ha...

Hello Hillside! Yes, it’s Saturday which means our day to gather as the family of God is just around the corner. Tomorrow’s 10:00 AM service will be special (but aren’t they all?). Looking forward to being together for musical praise, church updates, a one verse sermon from James (though don’t let that fool ya, ’cuz there’s a lot to that one verse), and more besides. Why not call someone you’ve ha...

Dear Hillside: Recently, I was reading about the thousands of pioneers who crossed the United States in wagon trains during the mid-nineteenth century. Think about what they endured: blizzards, grizzly bears, and hostility from locals unhappy with the intrusion. And think of how few Peets Coffees there were along the way. This puts everything in perspective for me. Of course, they made that harrow...

Dear Hillside: Recently, I was reading about the thousands of pioneers who crossed the United States in wagon trains during the mid-nineteenth century. Think about what they endured: blizzards, grizzly bears, and hostility from locals unhappy with the intrusion. And think of how few Peets Coffees there were along the way. This puts everything in perspective for me. Of course, they made that harrow...

Dear Hillside: Here’s a quick quiz. I’m going to name a famous forest, and you reply with the story it’s from. Warning: They get more challenging as they go. Ready? No Googling. 1. Sherwood Forest 2. Mirkwood Forest 3. The Enchanted Forest 4. The Forest of Arden. Did you get any right? If you got number four, I’m impressed. I’m doubly impressed if you got number four and you weren’t an English maj...

Dear Hillside: Here’s a quick quiz. I’m going to name a famous forest, and you reply with the story it’s from. Warning: They get more challenging as they go. Ready? No Googling. 1. Sherwood Forest 2. Mirkwood Forest 3. The Enchanted Forest 4. The Forest of Arden. Did you get any right? If you got number four, I’m impressed. I’m doubly impressed if you got number four and you weren’t an English maj...

James 1:22 says, “Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.” But what does that actually mean for Christians today? In this sermon, Kian Ameli challenges the modern church to confront the danger of a domesticated faith: a faith that hears God’s Word but does not act on it. Using the story of the Great Blondin and the image of the mirror in James 1, this message explores the...

James 1:22 says, “Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.” But what does that actually mean for Christians today? In this sermon, Kian Ameli challenges the modern church to confront the danger of a domesticated faith: a faith that hears God’s Word but does not act on it. Using the story of the Great Blondin and the image of the mirror in James 1, this message explores the...

Dear Hillside: I invite you to join your church family (new members and old) for the worship service tomorrow at 10:00 AM. Remember, tomorrow we have one 10:00 AM service (We’re now in one service mode until fall when we’ll kick it back to two). Friends, let’s never forget the priority of worship in our lives as children of God and individual “stones” of his new “temple.” If we’ve come to view the...

Dear Hillside: I invite you to join your church family (new members and old) for the worship service tomorrow at 10:00 AM. Remember, tomorrow we have one 10:00 AM service (We’re now in one service mode until fall when we’ll kick it back to two). Friends, let’s never forget the priority of worship in our lives as children of God and individual “stones” of his new “temple.” If we’ve come to view the...

James is concerned about many things in the young churches scattered around the Roman Empire – sometimes he’s focused on godly behavior, and sometimes – like today’s text – on the very life blood of the church: faith. Join us this Sunday as Pastor Jane DeYoung leads us in exploring James’ big picture passion. Oh - and you’ll also get Jane’s best guess as to what James looked like. Come worship wit...

James is concerned about many things in the young churches scattered around the Roman Empire – sometimes he’s focused on godly behavior, and sometimes – like today’s text – on the very life blood of the church: faith. Join us this Sunday as Pastor Jane DeYoung leads us in exploring James’ big picture passion. Oh - and you’ll also get Jane’s best guess as to what James looked like. Come worship wit...

Hillside, it’s Friday at 2:00 PM and I just hit “Send” on an email with my message attached to Jeriah and Laura, two of my highly esteemed staff teammates, without whom, Sunday at Hillside wouldn’t be what it is. I’m breathing a sign of relief to be done and enjoying a cup of coffee to celebrate.  What a thrill to simmer in James 1:12-15, study it in the original language, research what others hav...

Hillside, it’s Friday at 2:00 PM and I just hit “Send” on an email with my message attached to Jeriah and Laura, two of my highly esteemed staff teammates, without whom, Sunday at Hillside wouldn’t be what it is. I’m breathing a sign of relief to be done and enjoying a cup of coffee to celebrate.  What a thrill to simmer in James 1:12-15, study it in the original language, research what others hav...

This week in our “Just Do The Word” series in the Letter of James, we will explore how asking God for His wisdom will help us face our trials and mature in our faith. Join us as we dive into James 1:5-11 and consider three “Asks” to remember in our trials. Come worship with Hillside Covenant Church LIVE at 9:00 & 10:45 AM both online and in person as Becky Garner teaches from James 1:5-11. Thi...

This week in our “Just Do The Word” series in the Letter of James, we will explore how asking God for His wisdom will help us face our trials and mature in our faith. Join us as we dive into James 1:5-11 and consider three “Asks” to remember in our trials. Come worship with Hillside Covenant Church LIVE at 9:00 & 10:45 AM both online and in person as Becky Garner teaches from James 1:5-11. Thi...

Dear Hillside: It’s a rainy spring Saturday which means we all have an excuse to forget washing the car and mowing the lawn. Instead, we can brew a cup of coffee, curl up under a weighted blanket, and crack open that spy thriller that’s been calling out to us. After some escapist reading, we can shuffle to the kitchen and make cheese sandwiches and tomato soup for the household. Why not eat in fro...