Hillside Church Sermons

People often fail to appreciate of the impending return of Christ and all that will follow. As we think through the joyful inevitable we must not lose sight of the need for non-Christ followers to embrace Him for rescue, restoration, and salvation. The world is perishing and Jesus Christ has left us here as instruments in His hands to point others to Him? Will we fulfill this calling with urgency?...

We are reminded that Jesus’ church is to be passionate about evangelism and compassion ministries.

People these days have many ideas about the church. Most of them are misinformed. The Church is more than a building. The Church is a collection of believers who worship Jesus Christ. The Church is the foundation for all ministry, it has a structure, and all of this is explained in God’s Word. Today, we’ll do a helicopter flyover of the Church, getting of bird’s eye view of what the church is, how...

All too often we talk a good game about our beliefs but fail to live them out. Therefore, we miss out. We miss out on a satisfying relationship with our Savior, God, and Sustainer. We miss out on opportunities to make a difference in the lives of others. We miss out on living our purpose.

Human beings are people of extremes. Typically, there are two extreme, unbiblical approaches to the Holy Spirit: (a) a tendency to overemphasize Him to the near exclusion of the Father and the Son; (b) the neglect any mention of Him at all for fear of being accused of being charismatic. Our aim is to embrace neither extreme but to be biblically centered and balanced in our understanding of the Hol...

We need to think more carefully about the doctrine of Jesus Christ (Christology). People fail to appreciate fully who Jesus is and the implications of who He is and what He has done for us. Today’s message is an overview of the person and work of Jesus Christ as God the Son, Messiah, Savior; and Resurrected Lord.

We need to think more carefully about the doctrine of man. We sometimes forget that man is spiritually dead and unwilling and unable to desire the things of God on his own. Understanding the human condition takes pressure off of you when you share the gospel with someone and they reject it. Understanding the human condition helps you to realize that feeding and clothing the poor, while nice, is of...

We need to think more carefully about the doctrine of God. We need to think more carefully about God. Otherwise, we can’t tell people about Him, or discuss Him with those whom we love in an intelligent or helpful manner.

Christianity has a blueprint. We come with instructions. Those instructions are found in the Bible, the basis for our faith. We cannot know God apart from His Word. Examine the blueprint; read the instructions and know God.

Some say that Roe vs. Wade and abortion represent the watershed moral event of the last 100 years. The abortion controversy is a divisive one. There are Christians and churches that say, “Can we move beyond the abortion discussion to matters of evangelism, earth care, and social justice---because like homosexuality, the Bible doesn’t really talk about abortion. The fact is many in the church have...

Disciple-making is the mission of the church. The believer is called to a complete commitment to the task and to develop a sense of fear and wonder before the King of the universe.

Our aim today is to consider and embrace three resolutions in the coming year so that you may not merely survive the coming year but thrive under God’s watch-care and blessings.

There is so much confusion about the meaning of Christmas! Galatians 4:4-5 tells us pretty much in a sentence what Christmas is really all about, giving us something to really celebrate.

Our faith in Christ should make us noticeably different than the rest of the world.

Not everyone should be an elder. It takes a special man.

Persecution in some form is inevitable for Christians. Therefore, we should not be shocked, dismayed, and or disheartened when trouble comes our way. Today’s message is about persecution and our response.

As believers and servants of Christ we must ask and answer three questions in our heart of hearts about our commitment to Christ.

Our approach to explaining the Gospel must be sensible and our presentation must be clear and content filled.

Relations between Christians must be peaceable if we want to be taken seriously by the culture. We should not act like the world. The differences between us and others must be conspicuous. They must conclude that there must be something different at work in us because they see something different at work in us.

The honorable Christian man honors God and His wife by embracing at least four non-negotiables in marriage.

Embrace four non-negotiables in marriage so that your faith is seen as an honorable faith.

If we want to have a credible witness for Christ before the words then we must be ‘respectable.” To be respected, we must act respectably if we are grateful for our salvation, ready to serve Him, and rightly informed with regard to maintaining an eternal perspective. We need to not only talk the talk but walk the walk. 1 Peter 2 provides us a list of essential behavior that we must cultivate if we...

Our fallen world, intentionally or otherwise, seems determined to distract our attention away from God and our mission. Therefore, we’ve got to maintain an internal perspective. We are faced with many urgent crises that seem to pull us away from being about our Master’s work. However, if we are eternally focused, then we will look beyond the apparent here and now scenarios as we keep matters of et...

If we are grateful for all that God has given us in our salvation, then we will be ready to serve Him. How will we ready ourselves? Today’s sermon provides us inside into the necessary preparation. Part and parcel of our readiness is changing our priorities to match God’s calling on our lives. We’ve been given something special by Someone special and are we ready to serve Him according to His will...

Within the scope of the first 12 verses of this Epistle, Peter, sounding like Paul in the first 14 verses of Ephesians bursts forth in a song of matchless thanksgiving and joy. When you consider Peter’s circumstances, writing on the eve of Nero’s persecution of Christians, writing during a time when both Romans and religious Jews were persecuting Christians, you can’t miss the fact that Peter has...