Saints‘ Hill Church Podcast

The entire Bible is about the mission of God. God wants to restore trust with humans, which will lead to the restoration of all creation.   In the Scriptures, we are given the creational mandate in Genesis and the Great Commission in Matthew. This means that discipleship is important in this life, but so is your work, your family, and your time.  If we can get a bigger picture of evangelism, one t...

On Sunday we began a new series by reading Colossians 1v15-23 and asking the question, “What is our message to the world?” Our conviction is that the gospel is not just personal, it’s also cosmic. This is a far cry from the personal, private, gnostic American gospel that we were born into.  Because of the incarnation, salvation is neither an escape from this world or a perfection of it. It seems t...

Advent has brought us to the birth of Christ, the celebration of Christ with us, but even after his arrival the Scriptures tell us that all is still not as it should be.   Christ has come, and He will come again, but we still live with the reality of suffering. The Scriptures call us to usher in the kingdom of God with our beautiful, suffering Savior. We don’t live for an ideal experience, we live...

During our Christmas Eve gathering this year we looked at the story of Jesus in John 1.  Because Jesus came we have hope in the midst of a troubled world and we get to carry that hope to the world.  We reflect on the fact that Christmas is a time to have hope even if the world seems dark.   We pray that as your family gathers you would remember all that Jesus did for us on the Cross, and the mirac...

On Sunday, Pete read the Angels’ Song from Luke 2. The Angels’ Song is one of hope realized.  The angels come to the lowly shepherds to announce the good news of Christ’s birth. The Messiah is finally here, peace is available to all people. The angel chorus glorifies God for this great gift, and gives an important key for how this peace is actually obtained.  It is by our faith that God is pleased...

On Sunday we continued in our Advent series looking at the songs of Advent. This week we turned our attention to Mary. Luke 1v46-55 is Mary’s song. She sings because God has included her in His promise to bless the nations. She gives her yes, her surrender, so that she may participate in the fulfillment of this hope. The promise given to Mary is a part of a very old promise to Israel. God will sen...

The prophecy of Zechariah in Luke 1v67-79 reframes our reality by showing us what the coming of Jesus really means, so that we can orient our lives appropriately.  The gospel is not our escape from this life nor our license to live for this world. The gospel of Jesus Christ means that eternal life begins right now.   We get to serve God without fear in righteousness and holiness through the union...

On Sunday, Andoni reminded us of why it’s so important to keep the gospel as our North Star.   In an age of endless information, knowledge and influence we must remain aware of our need for Jesus.   In the battle for the mind, we must be conscious of what we are consuming. The only thing that will truly feed and sustain us is the Word.   We are designed to live with integrity and a single mind so...

On Sunday, we reflected on the journey Saints’ Hill has been on over the past seven years, and where we feel like God is taking us. The current shift we are feeling has led us to update our mission language, and to prepare to add a second gathering.   Our updated mission statement - friendship with God for the renewal of all things - reflects the core of our philosophy of ministry as well as what...

Thanks for joining us as Senior Leader Alex Rettmann sits down with leaders from our church family to reflect on last Sunday’s sermon and talk about life, community, and ministry. We are praying you’re blessed!

On Sunday we wrapped up our vision series, Join the Family, with a message on the identity of a child.  God’s answer to a world filled with lack, is the establishment of a family. Abraham and his family were to trust God unto blessing the nations. This was ultimately fulfilled in Christ’s life, death and resurrection, where we now are invited to join the family of God through the blood of Jesus. ...

Thanks for joining us as Senior Leader Alex Rettmann sits down with leaders from our church family to reflect on last Sunday’s sermon and talk about life, community, and ministry. We are praying you’re blessed!

Our aim in this vision series has been to define what God is specifically doing with Saints’ Hill in this time and place, and how you can join that.   One identity we are committing to is the identity of a priest. What we learn from the Scriptures is that priests serve God on behalf of people, and serve people on behalf of God.   Therefore, the life that Jesus has for you is a life of service, rat...

Thanks for joining us as Senior Leader Alex Rettmann sits down with leaders from our church family to reflect on last Sunday’s sermon and talk about life, community, and ministry. We are praying you’re blessed!

This last week we continued in our vision series with a teaching on what the identity of Bride means for the people of Saints’ Hill. The Bible begins with a marriage and ends with a marriage, and everything in between is about marriage. It’s the central image of God’s desire for humanity and humanity’s need of God. We are the woman at the well in John 4, and Jesus is the groom offering us himself....

Thanks for joining us as Senior Leader Alex Rettmann sits down with leaders from our church family to reflect on last Sunday’s sermon and talk about life, community, and ministry. We are praying you’re blessed!

As a part of this vision series we want you to know what you can expect from us at Saints’ Hill and what we want to be able to expect from you, in other words, our social contract. Rather than a membership structure or specific requirements, our social contract is made up of a shared identity with an organizing principle.  According to the New Testament authors, there are many identities that we a...

Thanks for joining us as Senior Leader Alex Rettmann sits down with leaders from our church family to reflect on last Sunday’s sermon and talk about life, community, and ministry. We are praying you’re blessed!

What is Saints’ Hill trying to do to you? As we get more and more specific in this vision series, we want to talk about what our hope is for each person at Saints’ Hill.  Put simply - we want you, through friendship with God, to become completely secure in His love. When this happens, we believe that you will be filled to overflow, and that you’ll have something to give away. You’ll be able to act...

Thanks for joining us as Senior Leader Alex Rettmann sits down with leaders from our church family to reflect on last Sunday’s sermon and talk about life, community, and ministry. We are praying you’re blessed!

This last Sunday we talked about why Saints’ Hill exists. In a well-churched town, what is our unique purpose and how did we arrive there? Our founders had a conviction that Saints’ Hill needed to be a place where people could reliably encounter God. This comes from a belief that in His Presence all the right things grow and the wrong things die.  If you were made for union with God, a love encoun...

Thanks for joining us as Senior Leader Alex Rettmann sits down with leaders from our church family to reflect on last Sunday’s sermon and talk about life, community, and ministry. We are praying you’re blessed!

Last week we began our vision series laying a foundation for what this life is, who God is, and what our purpose is as humans. This week we zoomed in a bit more and asked the question, Why the Church? From the very beginning, God’s answer to the trust broken in Eden, was a family. Abraham and his family, the nation of Israel, existed to restore trust between God and man, and to extend that blessin...

Thanks for joining us as Senior Leader Alex Rettmann sits down with leaders from our church family to reflect on last Sunday’s sermon and talk about life, community, and ministry. We are praying you’re blessed!

On Sunday we began a new series called Join The Family. This vision series is designed to show why we do what we do at Saints’ Hill and where we’re headed. Our goal for this series is that every person would find both the mission for their life and the energy for it, in the presence of God. - In order to get into the specifics, we first need to lay a foundation of agreement on what this life is. W...