Rolling Hills Community Church // Nashville West Campus

This summer we have been on an amazing journey with the children of Israel as God brought them out of slavery and led them to the Promised Land. In our own lives, we are on an amazing journey with the Lord as well. God has freed us from being slaves to sin, and He is leading us to our forever home in heaven. What are we doing with this life we have been given? Are we following Jesus and blessing o...

God is intricately involved in every detail of your life. Because He is Sovereign, holy, and good, you can trust Him in everything. Whether you are going through a valley or on the tops of mountains, God is working all things out according to His will for your life. For the Israelites, God was showing them how He was going to meet with Him. He desires to do the same thing for you today! Will you t...

You might be in a people group where God's law was talked about more than God's love. In fact, you may have been burned by the church because you couldn't seem to get it right. The truth is, the law ultimately points to God's love. We are all law breakers, but we have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus. And when we see what great links God went for us to be called children of God through Jesus Ch...

God provides for His people. So often we worry. We wonder if God sees the circumstances we are facing. We all have needs. Yet, God not only sees, but He cares. God provides for all our needs. God takes care of His people every day. He invites us to trust Him and to follow Him. God provides for both our physical needs and our spiritual needs. God gave His only Son, so that we can have eternal life...

Freedom is a fine line. Enjoying it can quickly translate into abusing it. Celebrating it can easily fast forward into idolizing it. The key to keeping freedom in its proper place and living out one’s freedoms with well-stewarded grace is knowing where it came from and why we have it. In Israel’s case and in our spiritual state, freedom was God’s gift. It wasn’t awarded to Israel then and it isn’t...

Jesus Christ is our Passover Lamb. When God delivered His people out of being slaves in Egypt, He sent the last plague - the death angel. Yet, God told the Israelites to cover the doorposts of their home with the blood of a lamb. Every home covered in the blood of the lamb, the death angel “passed over” and the lives inside were saved. The blood of Jesus covers our hearts if you are in Christ Jesu...

Our God is a God of miracles. There are times when God breaks into our natural world with the supernatural. God is Sovereign over all creation and over your life. Even when a situation seems hopeless, don’t forget about God! Our God is able. God always fights for His people. What prayers are you praying that only God can do? Pray bold prayers. God longs to do miracles in your life. Trust Him and w...

The God of the Universe is calling out to you. He is inviting you into a relationship with Him through His Son, Jesus Christ. This is where The Greatest Adventure begins. Throughout the journey, God has a specific call to each one of His followers. You are uniquely gifted to accomplish His will. Whether it is being a parent, a grandparent, serving in a ministry at church, being baptized, or reachi...

God had a great plan for Moses, just like God has a great plan for each of us. God saved Moses in a basket in the Nile, and then gave Moses the best education in the world at that time. As Moses grew up, he didn’t fall in love with the comforts of this world, but kept a heart for the One True God. Moses ended up in the wilderness where God grew his faith and prepared him to lead His people. God is...

They had "no phones, no lights, no motorcars,” and everyday life for the 1st century believer could not have been more different than what we experience today. And, yet, the challenges to their faith are strikingly similar. Who is Jesus? Why did He come? What does it mean to know God and follow Christ? How do we know what’s true and balance that with the call to love? Scripture has our answers and...

John Stott famously explained that love without truth is too soft and truth without love is too hard. We need truth contextualized in love. That’s how the Gospel is best represented and communicated. It’s one thing to tell a person that God loves them. It’s another to plainly explain how they might love Him too. Loving others with the sacrificial love of Jesus is the only way to love at all and ou...

It is beyond our imagination and ability to comprehend the love of God who called, rescued, and made us His children. As God’s children we have a new identity, a hope, and a mission to invest in others. We also have a battle. The battle is against our old self and it’s desire to sin. The Apostle John encourages us that although Christians may fall into sin we will not live in it.

Lisa Bevere writes, “Our culture has wrongly equated loving everyone with approving everything.” And in that effort to love, an enemy appears in various forms to lead God’s people astray (1 John 2:26). Right from the beginning, the deceiver didn’t prompt Eve to question who God was, but to doubt and mistrust what God said. Remaining in the truth starts with knowing the truth, but it’s sustained by...

God created you to grow spiritually. When we commit our lives to follow Jesus, this is just the beginning. We are then called to mature in our faith journey. This involves taking “next steps” spiritually - being baptized, reading God’s Word, praying, serving, and more. As we grow, we become more like Jesus. There are definite challenges that keep us from growing. Pushing past the challenges and gr...

Maybe life for you has happened exactly as you planned. If so, you’re definitely a unicorn. For most, life is what happens when we’re busy making other plans. A pursuit of what is good and beautiful according to the world’s standards will be a disappointing journey that ultimately leads one into sin at worst and only fleeting glimpses of satisfaction at best. When we adjust our understanding of wh...

We can’t understand why Jesus came and what His death meant without understanding, first, our own need. Sin is a spiritual deficit. The price for a restored relationship with God wasn’t free. It was the ultimate price. God’s grace is that you and I didn’t have to pay it. We couldn’t afford it anyway. Instead, out of love, God paid the way Himself with His own Son. That’s the essence of faith and t...

Palm Sunday is a traditional part of what we call Holy Week. It commemorates Jesus’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem where the welcome He received would quickly be turned to torment. It is ultimately Christ’s death that gives us a triumphant entry into Heaven as God’s sons and daughters, forgives our debts, and invites us into God’s family. When we are hurt, we can be healed. When we are lost, we...

The truth about God’s instruction in Deuteronomy 6 was that it was to the entire faith community. God didn’t hit pause in His most profound commands to the general population and create a side conversation with parents and grandparents. His admonition to pass faith on to the next generation belonged to all of Israel then and lands on all our shoulders now. Not taking part IS being a block. What ca...

The sent life isn’t reserved for what some might consider being next-level Christianity. It’s the root call for every Christian. Going and telling isn’t supposed to be the mark of those called to be pastors or exclusively for those who received the Holy Spirit’s gift of evangelism. It’s the role of every believer in Jesus. We are all “sent” by God to go to the places He is moving. Paul wrote in 2...

There is a God-shaped hole in every one of us. We try to fill this hole in our lives with money, success, power, or possessions. The world tells us that these things will satisfy, but they never do. As soon as we buy something or reach a new position in a job, we are already looking for what’s next. True fulfillment comes only in Jesus. He is everything we need and desire. Is there anything in you...

The disciples once asked Jesus to teach them how to pray. He began with instructions of how NOT to pray…as the hypocrites do it to gain attention. This image, in and of itself, spoke a lot. After that, Jesus gave them the recipe. When you consider what we call the Lord’s Prayer from Matthew 6, Jesus gave the description of what it looks like to get alone with God and submit yourself fully to God....

During this cold season, layers are everything, right? When it comes to the following Jesus, what you take off is as important as what you put on. The scriptures say to “rid yourself” of malice and deceit. We are to turn away from envy and lust. And put on the characteristics of Jesus. The armor of God helps us do that. The shield of faith doesn’t just protect us from the enemy’s attacks, they hel...

Uneasiness and discomfort spread. When you are attacked in one area of your life, it often and always ultimately creates chaos in every area of life. You can only be hitting homers at home for so long when work is falling apart. Vice versa. Only one other thing spreads like that. The Peace of Christ. It’s HIS peace that gives us wholeness and balance. His peace cannot only spread to but overcome t...

We are in a spiritual battle. Most of the time we only focus on what we can see, but there is a battle that rages between Good vs. Evil, that we cannot see, and impacts all of us. We have an enemy who does not want us to succeed in life. The devil endeavors to keep people from God and schemes against those who seek to follow Jesus. Yet, God is more powerful than our enemy and gives us the armor to...