Red Hills Church - Messages

Pastor Marshall Ochs | June 29, 2025 In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from Hosea 5-6. These chapters focus on a time of deep rebellion and political chaos in Israel around 740 BC. Despite repeated calls to repentance, Israel and Judah chase worthless things, turning from God and reaping the consequences in war and spiritual decay. Yet amid judgment, God offers a powerful invitation: seek H...

Pastor Marshall Ochs | June 22, 2025 In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from Hosea 3-4. These chapters use Hosea's personal story to reflect His covenant love and the coming restoration through Jesus, the true and faithful Israel. We explore how prophetic language — from Hosea to Isaiah to Paul — reveals that faith in Jesus grafts believers into the the people of God and asks are we living i...

Pastor Marshall Ochs | June 15, 2025 In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from Hosea 1-2. These chapters explore the powerful imagery of Hosea, where God calls the prophet to live out a parable of His relationship with unfaithful Israel—portrayed through Hosea's marriage to Gomer and their children, each symbolizing the nation's spiritual state. Despite Israel's betrayal, God promises redempti...

Pastor Marshall Ochs | June 8, 2025 In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from Amos 8-9. These chapters end the book of Amos with a sobering call to repentance and a warning: Israel, having rejected God’s repeated invitations, is now ripe for judgment. God condemns Israel for their exploitation of the poor and obsession with profit over worship, showing that His lordship encompasses every aspec...

Pastor Marshall Ochs | June 1, 2025 In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from Amos 6-7. These chapters explore a sobering message from a prophet sent to shake Israel from its spiritual slumber. At the heart of Amos' warning is a timeless truth: God will ultimately give people what they truly desire —even if it leads to their ruin. Through a raw look at Israel’s craving for comfort, status, and...

Pastor Marshall Ochs | May 25, 2025 In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from Amos 5. This chapter confronts a prosperous yet spiritually complacent people who honored God outwardly through festivals and traditions but lacked true devotion and righteousness. Instead of seeking God, Israel placed their hope in historical places, religious rituals, and created things—leaving them vulnerable to j...

Pastor Marshall Ochs | May 18, 2025 In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from Amos 3-4. These chapters reveal God’s judgment against Israel’s hypocrisy—highlighting their injustice, abuse, and hollow religious rituals. Through cause-and-effect imagery, Amos shows that closeness to God brings not only privilege but also greater accountability; rebellion leads to societal collapse, and even sacr...

Pastor Marshall Ochs | May 11, 2025 In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from Amos 1-2. Amos, a shepherd from Tekoa, delivered God’s message of judgment against nations that prioritized power over people, focusing on their cruelty, exploitation, and injustice. Each "roar" of judgment highlights the consequences of mistreating others, with God opposing human pride and valuing how we treat one a...

Pastor Marshall Ochs | May 4, 2025 In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from Jonah 3-4. Although Jonah obeyed God's command to preach in Nineveh, his heart remained hardened. God's mercy on Nineveh contrasts sharply with Jonah’s lack of mercy, challenging believers to reflect on their willingness to forgive and extend grace. Ultimately, the book ends by turning the focus toward the reader, urg...

Pastor Marshall ochs | April 27, 2025 In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from Jonah 1-2. Jonah runs from God’s command to preach to Nineveh, showing how inner rebellion creates outward turmoil. Even surrounded by praying pagans, Jonah refuses to pray until he hits rock bottom inside a fish—where he finally surrenders in prayer, leading to restoration and a second chance. The central theme is...

Pastor Marshall ochs | April 20, 2025 Today, through Luke 24 and passages like Isaiah 8 and Daniel 7, Pastor Marshall teaches that Jesus’ resurrection fulfills God’s promise of life, exposing the futility of seeking hope in death and offering true power and new life through Him. Like the women at the tomb, we’re called to remember, believe, and boldly share this resurrection hope with others.

Pastor Marshall ochs | April 13, 2025 Palm Sunday marks Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, where He rode in on a donkey to crowds celebrating Him as a warrior king — but He came not for battle, but to inspect His people, His “garden,” for spiritual fruit. Drawing from Isaiah 5 and Matthew 21, we see how Jesus, like the gardener in the parables, found His vineyard producing rotten fruit, symbol...

Pastor Sean Doughtie | April 6, 2025 Paul’s letter to Philemon is personal appeal for forgiveness and reconciliation between Philemon, a Christian slaveholder, and Onesimus, his runaway slave who’s now a fellow believer. Rather than leaning on authority, Paul speaks as a friend — calling on Philemon to receive Onesimus, not as a slave, but as a brother. This short letter is an example of gospel tr...

Pastor Marshall Ochs | March 30, 2025 In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from Titus 3. This chapter emphasizes that Christians should live lives marked by visible kindness, good works, and respectful behavior in the public square, not to earn salvation, but as a response to God's grace. Believers are reminded to be gentle, obedient, and ready to serve others, because they too were once lost...

Pastor Marshall Ochs | March 23, 2025 In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from Titus 2. This chapter emphasizes that a strong church requires healthy households where all members—older men, older women, young women, and young men—live in alignment with sound doctrine through their actions. Paul contrasts the behavior of unfit teachers in the Cretan church with the example Titus should set, te...

Pastor Marshall Ochs | March 16, 2025 In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from Titus 1. This chapter stresses that church leaders must be morally upright, self-disciplined, and well-versed in scripture, contrasting good leaders with bad ones who promote myths or cultural deception. Ultimately, Paul urges Titus and the church to uphold purity in leadership and teaching, highlighting that the i...

Pastor Marshall Ochs | March 9, 2025 In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from 2 Timothy 4. This chapter urges Timothy to preach the Word with urgency, as Jesus will return to judge the living and the dead. The chapter also highlights the personal aspects of discipleship, showing that failures can be redeemed and that Christ remains faithful through it all. Paul concludes with a message of for...

Pastor Marshall Ochs | March 2, 2025 In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from 2 Timothy 3. This chapter warns that in the "last days," sin and deception will increase, particularly within the church, leading to a "falling away" as people become lovers of themselves, money, and pleasure. He contrasts those enslaved to the enemy with those faithful to Christ, encouraging believers to embrace go...

Pastor Marshall Ochs | February 23, 2025 In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from 2 Timothy 2. This chapter uses metaphors to emphasize the importance of faithfulness, strength, and suffering in Christian living. Paul encourages Timothy to be strengthened by God's grace, participate in teaching, and share in suffering, offering metaphors like soldier, athlete, and farmer to highlight dedicati...

Pastor Marshall Ochs | February 16, 2025 In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from 2 Timothy 1. This chapter emphasizes the importance of remembering one's calling and the gift of the Holy Spirit to persevere in ministry, even through suffering. Paul encourages Timothy to fan into flame the Spirit within him, reminding him that the strength of love, power, and self-control will fuel faithful s...

Pastor Marshall Ochs | February 9, 2025 In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from 1 Timothy 6. This chapter addresses how Christians, particularly bondservants, should live with faithfulness in their roles, maintaining the reputation of God and promoting the gospel, despite their circumstances. He warns against the dangers of leaders who self-promote, sow discord, and exploit others for financ...

Pastor Marshall Ochs | February 2, 2025 In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from 1 Timothy 5. This chapter focuses on healthy, respectful relationships within the church family, emphasizing honor, purity, and mutual encouragement. He outlines how widows should be cared for, distinguishing between true widows who are dedicated to God and younger women who may still desire to remarry, while als...

Pastor Marshall Ochs | January 26, 2025 In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from 1 Timothy 4. This chapter covers the dangers facing God’s household, particularly false teachings and the twisting of truth by demons. Paul stresses that protecting the church is everyone's responsibility, calling believers to "train for godliness" and live with intentionality, using spiritual practices to build...

Pastor Marshall Ochs | January 19, 2025 In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from 1 Timothy 3. This chapter outlines the leadership structure and expectations for God's household, emphasizing the importance of strong, godly leaders who model the truth through their actions. The church, as the pillar of truth, must have leaders who exemplify Christlike behavior to protect and guide the congrega...

Pastor Marshall Ochs | January 12, 2025 In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from 1 Timothy 2. This chapter emphasizes prayer for all people, including leaders, for peaceful conditions that support the gospel mission. Paul also provided guidance on roles in the church, highlighting modesty and self-control for women and reinforcing biblical household order with men leading as servant leaders....