Orchard Hill Church, Cedar Falls, Iowa

God often turns up unannounced, uninvited, unrecognized. God appears in the Bible as stranger more often than we realize. God also appears in our lives as stranger more often than we recognize. This is true in the Advent story. God appears in this story as both friend and stranger. He comes to earth in ways none of us would ever have dreamed of. His interactions with the people involved are often...

There are some sections of Scripture that stand out as especially powerful and packed with meaning. Romans chapter 8, is one of those sections. Filled with truth after truth and stuffed chock full of grace, hope and freedom in Christ, our teachers look forward to delving into this chapter with you over the next 4 weeks. Join us as we learn about how there is no condemnation or accusation for those...

There are some sections of Scripture that stand out as especially powerful and packed with meaning. Romans chapter 8, is one of those sections. Filled with truth after truth and stuffed chock full of grace, hope and freedom in Christ, our teachers look forward to delving into this chapter with you over the next 4 weeks. Join us as we learn about how there is no condemnation or accusation for those...

There are some sections of Scripture that stand out as especially powerful and packed with meaning. Romans chapter 8, is one of those sections. Filled with truth after truth and stuffed chock full of grace, hope and freedom in Christ, our teachers look forward to delving into this chapter with you over the next 4 weeks. Join us as we learn about how there is no condemnation or accusation for those...

There are some sections of Scripture that stand out as especially powerful and packed with meaning. Romans chapter 8, is one of those sections. Filled with truth after truth and stuffed chock full of grace, hope and freedom in Christ, our teachers look forward to delving into this chapter with you over the next 4 weeks. Join us as we learn about how there is no condemnation or accusation for those...

Bad religion shrinks and kills our hearts. Bad religion lacks love and puts our focus in the wrong places. Bad religion often raised the ire of Jesus and we find pieces of bad religion in each of our hearts. Jesus came to bring light and hope to us who so easily slip into bad religion.

Bad religion shrinks and kills our hearts. Bad religion lacks love and puts our focus in the wrong places. Bad religion often raised the ire of Jesus and we find pieces of bad religion in each of our hearts. Jesus came to bring light and hope to us who so easily slip into bad religion. In this teaching Brian Steenhoek tells us God is more concerned with our personal health, wealth, and happiness t...

Bad religion shrinks and kills our hearts. Bad religion lacks love and puts our focus in the wrong places. Bad religion often raised the ire of Jesus and we find pieces of bad religion in each of our hearts. Jesus came to bring light and hope to us who so easily slip into bad religion.

Bad religion shrinks and kills our hearts. Bad religion lacks love and puts our focus in the wrong places. Bad religion often raised the ire of Jesus and we find pieces of bad religion in each of our hearts. Jesus came to bring light and hope to us who so easily slip into bad religion. In this teaching Dave reminds us the ideas God has no time or love for those who are doubting, sinning, failing o...

Jesus changed the world as we know it by launching a movement with a simple invitation, “Come and follow me.” He made a lot of promises to those who accepted the invitation, the promise of abundant life, purpose, help in times of trouble… But he also said some pretty demanding things. To follow someone implies that there is a leader, and the followers do things like their leader. Jesus said you wi...

Jesus changed the world as we know it by launching a movement with a simple invitation, “Come and follow me.” He made a lot of promises to those who accepted the invitation, the promise of abundant life, purpose, help in times of trouble… But he also said some pretty demanding things. To follow someone implies that there is a leader, and the followers do things like their leader. Jesus said you wi...

Jesus changed the world as we know it by launching a movement with a simple invitation, “Come and follow me.” He made a lot of promises to those who accepted the invitation, the promise of abundant life, purpose, help in times of trouble… But he also said some pretty demanding things. To follow someone implies that there is a leader, and the followers do things like their leader. Jesus said you wi...

The Gathering 2019 by Orchard Hill Church

Have you ever heard someone at Orchard say, “Everyone’s welcome?” Does the church really mean it? And what exactly does that look like in practice? Or, how about, “pick up your paddle?” That’s kinda weird, especially if you’re somewhat new to the church. However, the reference is decades old and refers to a metaphor of the church as a whitewater raft and the need to have everyone in the raft worki...

Have you ever heard someone at Orchard say, “Everyone’s welcome?” Does the church really mean it? And what exactly does that look like in practice? Or, how about, “pick up your paddle?” That’s kinda weird, especially if you’re somewhat new to the church. However, the reference is decades old and refers to a metaphor of the church as a whitewater raft and the need to have everyone in the raft worki...

Followers of Jesus across the globe and across the centuries have arranged their lives in certain ways to help them grow closer to God. We need to do the same. And yet we are all unique; each one of us has specific pathways that lead us to growth. As a church, we plan to spend the summer exploring a few important questions related to our spiritual growth: What does it look like in our ordinary liv...

Followers of Jesus across the globe and across the centuries have arranged their lives in certain ways to help them grow closer to God. We need to do the same. And yet we are all unique; each one of us has specific pathways that lead us to growth. As a church, we plan to spend the summer exploring a few important questions related to our spiritual growth: What does it look like in our ordinary liv...

Followers of Jesus across the globe and across the centuries have arranged their lives in certain ways to help them grow closer to God. We need to do the same. And yet we are all unique; each one of us has specific pathways that lead us to growth. As a church, we plan to spend the summer exploring a few important questions related to our spiritual growth: What does it look like in our ordinary liv...

Followers of Jesus across the globe and across the centuries have arranged their lives in certain ways to help them grow closer to God. We need to do the same. And yet we are all unique; each one of us has specific pathways that lead us to growth. As a church, we plan to spend the summer exploring a few important questions related to our spiritual growth: What does it look like in our ordinary liv...

Followers of Jesus across the globe and across the centuries have arranged their lives in certain ways to help them grow closer to God. We need to do the same. And yet we are all unique; each one of us has specific pathways that lead us to growth. As a church, we plan to spend the summer exploring a few important questions related to our spiritual growth: What does it look like in our ordinary liv...

Followers of Jesus across the globe and across the centuries have arranged their lives in certain ways to help them grow closer to God. We need to do the same. And yet we are all unique; each one of us has specific pathways that lead us to growth. As a church, we plan to spend the summer exploring a few important questions related to our spiritual growth: What does it look like in our ordinary liv...

Followers of Jesus across the globe and across the centuries have arranged their lives in certain ways to help them grow closer to God. We need to do the same. And yet we are all unique; each one of us has specific pathways that lead us to growth. As a church, we plan to spend the summer exploring a few important questions related to our spiritual growth: What does it look like in our ordinary liv...

Followers of Jesus across the globe and across the centuries have arranged their lives in certain ways to help them grow closer to God. We need to do the same. And yet we are all unique; each one of us has specific pathways that lead us to growth. As a church, we plan to spend the summer exploring a few important questions related to our spiritual growth: What does it look like in our ordinary liv...

Followers of Jesus across the globe and across the centuries have arranged their lives in certain ways to help them grow closer to God. We need to do the same. And yet we are all unique; each one of us has specific pathways that lead us to growth. As a church, we plan to spend the summer exploring a few important questions related to our spiritual growth: What does it look like in our ordinary liv...

Being a follower of Jesus requires us to be lifelong learners. As we follow Jesus, we need to stay open to all that he wants to teach us. One question this requires us to ask ourselves is this: How wide is the bandwidth of people from whom I am willing to learn? Am I willing to learn from those who are much younger? Or older? Or from those who are very different from me? In this series we will be...