Hillside Baptist Church

Preached on December 28, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by guest preacher Patrick Seamars. In Deuteronomy 30:15-20, Moses places God’s people at a decisive crossroads: life and death, blessing and curse. The passage isn't presenting a neutral spiritual space, but a clear call to covenant faithfulness. Life with God is portrayed as the result of loving Him, walking...

Preached on December 21, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by Alex Musard. In Luke 2:8-14, the birth of Jesus is announced not in a palace or before religious elites, but to shepherds watching their flocks in the dark. Advent confronts our assumptions about where God’s glory is revealed. The first witnesses to the incarnation are ordinary, overlooked people — those the wor...

Preached on December 14, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by Alex Musard. In Luke 1:26-38, the announcement of Jesus’ birth comes not as a distant theological idea, but as the fulfillment of a promise that has been unfolding since the beginning of Scripture. Advent draws our attention to the long wait of God’s people — through Abraham and Sarah’s impossible circumstances,...

Preached on December 7, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by Alex Musard. Advent reminds us that waiting is the unfolding of God’s faithfulness. In Genesis 12:1-3, 2 Samuel 7:12-16, and Isaiah 9:2-7, Scripture traces a single promise through centuries of uncertainty, failure, exile, and hope. At every stage, God isn't improvising history — He's faithfully preserv...

Preached on November 30, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by Alex Musard. Why does Christmas matter? The answer begins long before Bethlehem. In Genesis 3:1-15, immediately after humanity's fall into sin, God makes a promise that echoes throughout the entire Bible: a coming Deliverer will crush the serpent and bring redemption to His people. What appears at first to...

Preached on November 30, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by Alex Musard. What is Jesus worth to you? Mark 14:1-11 confronts that question through two radically different responses to Christ. As the shadow of the cross draws near, some are calculating His value in silver while another offers Him extravagant devotion. The religious leaders are determined to eliminate Jesus...

Preached on November 16, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by Alex Musard. Can Jesus be trusted when the world around us feels unstable? In Mark 13:1-37, Jesus delivers one of His most challenging and often misunderstood teachings, not to encourage speculation about the future, but to strengthen the faith of His disciples. Standing before the magnificent temple in Jerusale...

Preached on November 9, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by Alex Musard. What does God actually require from us? In Mark 12:13-44, Jesus answers that question by exposing misplaced allegiances and calling His followers to wholehearted devotion. Through a series of challenges from religious leaders, He reveals that faithfulness isn't merely about religious activity, p...

Preached on November 2, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by Alex Musard. What happens when God's authority collides with human autonomy? In Mark 11:27–12:12, the religious leaders confront Jesus with a question that reveals far more about their hearts than His ministry: by what authority does He do these things? Their challenge exposes a timeless struggle. People oft...

Preached on October 26, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by Alex Musard. What does genuine faith look like? In Mark 11:1-26, Jesus confronts the difference between outward religious appearance and true spiritual fruit. As He enters Jerusalem to shouts of "Hosanna," many celebrate Him as King without fully understanding the kind of King He came to be. Their expec...

Preached on October 12, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by Alex Musard. Everyone wants glory. Few people want the road that leads to it. In Mark 10:32-52, Jesus sets His face toward Jerusalem knowing exactly what awaits Him: betrayal, rejection, suffering, death, and ultimately Resurrection. While His disciples dream of honor and influence, Jesus reveals that God's...

Preached on September 28, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by Alex Musard. What does it take to enter the kingdom of God? In Mark 10:13-31, Jesus confronts one of our deepest assumptions: that spiritual success can be achieved through effort, morality, wealth, or personal achievement. Instead, He teaches that the kingdom is received by those who come to Him with the humbl...

Preached on September 21, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by Alex Musard. In a culture where marriage is often treated as temporary and disposable, Jesus calls His followers back to God's original design. In Mark 10:1-12, what begins as a debate about divorce quickly becomes a deeper conversation about covenant, commitment, and the purpose of marriage itself. When t...

Preached on September 14, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by Alex Musard. What does true greatness look like in the Kingdom of God? Mark 9:14-50 answers that question by exposing the pride, self-reliance, and ambition that so often compete with genuine faith. The passage begins with a desperate father, a suffering son, and disciples who discover they are powerless to hel...

Preached on September 7, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by Alex Musard. Everyone wants a king who brings victory. Far fewer want a king who calls His followers to suffer before they reign. In Mark 8:27-9:13, Jesus confronts both misconceptions about His identity and misconceptions about what it means to follow Him. At Caesarea Philippi, surrounded by symbols of politica...

Preached on August 24, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by Alex Musard. What does it take to truly see Jesus for who He is? Mark 7:31-8:26 explores that question through a series of encounters that reveal both Christ's compassion and the surprising blindness of the human heart. Jesus heals a man who can't hear and can barely speak, demonstrating His power to res...

Preached on August 17, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by Alex Musard. What makes a person truly clean before God? In Mark 7:1-30, Jesus confronts a question that reaches far beyond religious rituals and external behavior. When the Pharisees challenge His disciples for eating with unwashed hands, the issue isn't hygiene — but authority. Human traditions had been ele...

Preached on August 10, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by Alex Musard. “Who is Jesus?” sounds like a basic church question until you realize Mark 6 treats it as the hinge of everything, including eternity.  As thousands gather in a desolate place, Jesus responds with the compassion of a shepherd caring for sheep without a shepherd. The feeding of the five thousand is far...

Preached on August 3, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by Alex Musard. The mission sounds exciting until you read the fine print. In Mark 6:7-32, Jesus sends His disciples out with real authority — but not with comfort, security, or guarantees of success. Their mission forces a question every Christian eventually faces: what if faithfulness includes rejection, suffering,...

Preached on July 27, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by Alex Musard. The moment you realize you can’t fix it is the moment fear gets loud. A diagnosis lands, a phone call changes everything, and the plans you counted on suddenly feel useless. We start with that raw, helpless place and follow Mark 5 into two interwoven stories where desperation is not the end of faith, bu...

Preached on July 13, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by Alex Musard. A disaster like the Central Texas floods can leave you stunned, angry, and asking the question you might be afraid to say out loud: How can God be good and still allow this? We start there — grieving real loss and reflecting on Gracie Hunt's viral Instagram post following the death of her young cou...

Preached on July 6, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by Alex Musard. What if the mystery you've been longing to uncover wasn't locked behind rituals or secret societies — but given freely to those who simply draw near? This sermon continues Pastor Alex Musard's expository series through the Gospel of Mark. In Mark 4:1–34, Jesus teaches massive crowds in par...

Preached on June 29, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by Alex Musard. The religious elite rejected Him. His own family thought He'd lost His mind. And yet — twelve ordinary men were appointed as apostles, and a new family was being born. In this sermon, Pastor Alex Musard continues our series through the Gospel of Mark, preaching from Mark 3:7–35. As Jesus' mini...

Preached on June 22, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by Alex Musard. The grace of God doesn't fit in old wineskins — and the religious establishment of Jesus' day was about to find that out. In this sermon, Pastor Alex Musard continues our series through the Gospel of Mark, preaching from Mark 2:1–3:6. In five rapid confrontations, Jesus exposes the bankruptcy...

Preached on June 15, 2025 at Hillside Baptist Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire by Alex Musard. Jesus didn't just teach about authority — He demonstrated it, and everything in His path was transformed. In this sermon, Pastor Alex Musard continues our series through the Gospel of Mark, preaching from Mark 1:21–45. In rapid succession, Mark shows us Jesus teaching in the synagogue with an autho...