Saints‘ Hill Church Podcast

Who does Jesus think He is? Who do you think He is? The story in Luke 7v18-35 provokes these questions, and the way you answer them will inform the way you live and what you expect in this life. Jesus is the Messiah, the healer, the son of man who comes to take away sin. His kingdom is an invisible rule and reign in people that produces tangible heavenly results through them in our world today. Th...

What kind of faith makes Jesus marvel? This last Sunday we read from Luke 7v1-10 the story of the Roman centurion seeking Jesus out for a miracle. Here we have a Gentile who has grasped a kingdom concept before many Israelites had. The centurion sees Jesus as a warrior king, as the highest ranking official in all of creation. So much so that sickness and death yield, demons flee, and storms cease...

What is the foundation of the disciple, according to Jesus? In Luke 6v46-49 Jesus tells a parable about two different people, building their houses on two different foundations. He’s telling us there’s two ways you can build your life… Those who only call him Lord, are recognizing reality, but are stopping short of living in it. True disciples not only recognize their King, but submit in allegianc...

In Luke 6v37-45 Jesus is teaching an abundance worldview. A worldview that doesn’t walk around empty or with lack, but a way of living that is full of God and sees the world differently because of fullness. It’s about becoming the real deal, bearing fruit not because you tried, but because you received. You see, the person who hasn’t really seen the abundance of God, is self righteous. But live as...

As we work our way through the book of Luke, we are entering into some of Jesus’ most famous teachings. In Luke 7v27-36, Jesus gives a word that seems to set an incredibly high bar for what it looks like to live in the kingdom. Many of us look at our lives and see a great discrepancy between the lifestyle laid out in the sermon on the mount, and how we actually live. How can we become the kind of...

How do you make decisions in relationship with Jesus?  How does the kingdom come, and to who? This last Sunday Bria Wolter taught us through Luke 6v12-26 where Jesus demonstrates and addresses answers to both of these questions. What we learn from Jesus is that decision making is relational. Jesus made decisions in relationship with His Father. This is how the kingdom breaks out. In this passage J...

In Luke 6v1-11 Jesus claims that He is Lord of the Sabbath. What does that mean for us? Practicing Sabbath is a physical reminder to our bodies that our value isn’t tied to what we produce, but to whom we belong. Sabbath is a beautiful gift, but it’s also easy to miss with the wrong heart posture. The problem for many when it comes to Sabbath, is that they think they can solve an identity problem,...

What is a sacramental worldview? At Saints’ Hill we value the movement of God above doing things the way we’ve always done them. This is how we have learned to stay in step with the new thing God could be doing in any given season. This last Sunday Alex introduced to us a new “wineskin” (Luke 5v33-39). This new wineskin is a way of looking at the world that we believe will keep us open to the new...

This last Sunday Chris Sharp gave a teaching on the heart of God and the difference between mercy and sacrifice. In Matthew 9v13 Jesus says, “But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” The people hearing this at the time, would’ve had an Old Testament understanding of the word sacrifice. Where you lose something or ex...

This last Sunday we jumped back into our Luke Series. Bria taught us through the story in Luke 5v17-26 where Jesus heals a paralyzed man. There's a lot happening in this story, but the key idea of this passage is Jesus' authority.    From this passage, we see that Jesus has authority to forgive sins, authority to heal, and authority as the Son of Man.    In a time where many believed sickness was...

Understanding God’s love creates the context in your life for heaven to come. This last Sunday, Alex told us four stories from his journey to experiencing more of God’s love. Experiences that taught him about our identity as sons and daughters, the Christian life as relationship with Jesus instead of relationship with a philosophy, hunger that leads to a taste and see life, and childlike dependenc...

This last Sunday Andoni gave a teaching on the importance of God’s voice in our lives. The main goal of the prophetic is to be reminded of who you are. God is always reminding us of who we are so that when the enemy tries to tell us who we’re not, we can identify that quickly and disagree with it. It’s crucial to be able to distinguish God’s voice from ours and from the enemy’s. God won’t use the...

This last Sunday we had the privilege of hearing from Jake Vigil. His teaching took us back to the basics of the Holy Spirit. We learned that the Holy Spirit is a good gift from God that has a purpose. The goal of the Holy Spirit in us is that we would grow in Christlikeness AND move in power. As a church we are on a quest for that radical middle. The Holy Spirit is a person that reveals a person,...

Jesus both wept and commanded resurrection. What sort of vision of life did he have that provided this ability? This last week Alex gave a teaching on how to cry like Jesus, which begins with getting the same vision for our lives that He had for His. We believe that God is developing in us an ability to do something we haven’t seen much of in the Church: The ability to acknowledge the pain and suf...

This last Sunday Alex took some time to explain the why behind Saints’ Hill again. As we move into a new building and a new season in the life of our church, we feel it is always important to go back to the foundation. Through the overarching narrative of the Scriptures, we see that Jesus made intimacy with God possible for anyone who wants it. The point is that Christians can be a people who have...

This last Sunday we celebrated Easter together by talking about resurrection! When we look around at the atrophy of life and death’s inevitability we find ourselves asking, is there even truth? Is there anything solid to place the weight of one’s life upon? Jesus answers this question with His resurrection. Resurrection is truth.  -- Jesus didn’t come just to get you into Heaven, He came to get He...

This last Sunday Alex gave a teaching on same sex attraction as we continue in our Relationships & Sexuality series. This teaching should serve primarily as a meditation on the role that the Bible plays in your life. We all have glasses we put on before we read the Bible. The glasses tell you what to allow in and what not to. Our glasses are our hermeneutic. Alex does a deep dive in this teaching...

This last Sunday Alex Rettmann gave a teaching on Christian marriage as covenant, sanctification, and as an image of Christ and the Church. All the way back in Genesis 15  we see that covenant is this: “I will be to you as I should be even if you are not to me as you should be.” This type of love is only possible when the marriage runs on reverence to Christ, not just chemistry. If you have Christ...

As we continue in our Relationships & Sexuality series, we spent time on Sunday talking about Christians and sex. We are living in the success of the Sexual Revolution, but has it been liberating? Are we more free? In Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, he makes the argument that freedom is not actually the ability to do whatever you want, but the ability to choose in line with design. This lo...

On Sunday we began a new series on relationships & sexuality and this week we dove into the relationship between men and women. Together, men and women image God in a unique way. We see that Genesis is a story about design. The way God designed humans tells the truth about how we function best. When we neglect the truth being told by His design, we return to chaos and disorder. The Bible celebrate...

This last Sunday we had the privilege of hearing from our very own Mariah Fredericks. We read through the story in the beginning of Luke 5 where Jesus asks the disciples to take Him at His word and step into obedience even when it didn’t make sense. When we say yes to the Lord, our perspective is shifted, our purpose unfolds, and our participation is invited. Jesus is equipping His saints to act o...

On Sunday we continued in our Luke series with a teaching from Jake Vigil. Jake’s message on Luke 4v14-30 paints a picture of our King, Jesus, blowing the jubilee trumpet. The year of the Lord’s favor has been fulfilled in Him. Because of who He is and what He paid for, we actually don’t have to strive for all of those wonderful things listed, they are our inheritance. Our freedom and fulfillment...

The last two weeks we did a mini series called The Answer for Babylon. We took time to look at the story of Abraham and his family as an answer to the problem of Babylon. This last Sunday, Alex walked us through the difference between family and empire, and why God uses family to build his nation. Family is the solution to Babylon because it honors people beyond what they can be used for. It is th...

On Sunday we took a break from our Luke series to talk about the Babylonian experience. Culturally, we have moved from Christendom to Babylon. While at first this may seem troubling, the entire Bible is written for people who are having a Babylon experience…so we turn to the Scriptures to see what it means to live on a journey of faith. The principle of the story of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 1...

This last Sunday we had the privilege of hearing from our very own, Chris Sharp. Chris taught us through the passage in Luke 4 where Jesus is in the wilderness being tempted by the devil. Chris encouraged us from the Scriptures that the temptation to take health, wealth, and power into our own hands is not foreign to Jesus. That in fact, because Jesus was in every way tempted as we are, and remain...