Thriving Hills Church Podcast

Pastor Charlene Bunner shares with us on relationships.

Relationships are critical to our success, our happiness, our peace, and ultimately, our quality of life. God designed us to “Do life together.” But relationships don’t always go great or yield the kind of fruit we were hoping for. Pastor Chris shares how we can work to ensure that the relationships that matter most in our lives are healthy and productive. Notes Matthew 22:37 NIV Proverbs 13:20 ES...

All relationships have conflict sooner or later; it’s just a fact of life. Our goal is not to escape it, but to do it God’s way by learning how to have healthy conflict. Healthy conflict resolution can actually cause great growth and personal satisfaction as we experience relationships the way that God designed us to - to sharpen one another, to help one another, and to build each other up. Notes...

Relationships can be difficult and sometimes painful. What God designed to be the greatest source of comfort for our lives often becomes a source of frustration, hurt, insecurity, and even aggression. The truth is, God has great purpose for relationships in our lives; and relationships are the context in which He blesses us the most. So, how can we remedy this? How can we get back to good relation...

Relationships are complicated. Relationships get messy. Relationships can build you up, fill you with confidence, and bring you great joy and success; and they can also break your heart and even beat you down and break you. No matter who you are, the person you are today has largely been shaped by the relationships in your life; and the person you will be five or ten years from now will largely be...

Three of our upcoming communicators share with us on the topic of relationships.

This week, Pastor Chris brought a message for “Vision Sunday” by reminding us of the vision of the church and the vision God has for our lives. One of the most important things we can have is clarity and vision for our lives. Many of us are aiming at something – but it’s not God’s vision for our lives. What is the bullseye when it comes to our faith? And how do we hit it? Notes: Proverbs 29:18 KJV...

Jesus commands His followers to be baptized in water, following His example found in Matthew 3:13-17, Mark 1:9-11, Luke 3:21-22, and John 1:29-34. In its simplest form, Christianity is a continuous journey best summed up by the words of Jesus found 21 different times in scripture: “Follow me.” Notice Matthew 16:24 NKJV Revelation 22:17 ESV Matthew 4:19 NKJV Following Jesus will make you. Following...

Our worship pastor, GiaVanni Himes, shares a timely word with us.

All of us were created by God to make a difference in the life of another person, and we believe He has a place for you where your unique abilities and passions can do just that. Our lives make more sense when we find, develop, and live out the purpose we were created for. How might your life be different a year from today if you devoted the next 365 days to getting closer to God and walking the p...

This year at Thriving Hills Church, we are going to learn how we can thrive in our everyday life through a relationship with Jesus Christ that transforms our thoughts, our words, and our actions. Applying God’s Word to our disciplines, our relationships, and our everyday thought life really can have a transformational impact on our lives and even impact generations to come. Join us this month as w...

Pastor Josiah Beougher shares a timely message with us today. Notes:  Jeremiah 32:6-10 ESV The Steps of Faith: Sign it  Seal it Share it Value it Jeremiah 32:14-15 ESV Future Favor is in the Field "Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe." - Saint Augustine Psalm 5:12 ESV

Merry Christmas from Thriving Hills!  Notes:  Matthew 1:18-23 ESV  Isaiah 9:6 NKJV  Matthew 1:23 NLT  God didn’t shout His love from heaven, he showed it in the earth.

Life throws us all off-balance sometimes. Things happen seemingly out of nowhere that catch us off guard and we don’t know what to do. We don’t always have the answers we need, and that can leave us feeling very uneasy and looking for some stability. Whenever we are off-balance, we are most likely to fall; and you always fall in the direction you are leaning. So then the question becomes: Which wa...

Have you ever thought about why we celebrate Christmas? Not what we celebrate, but why we celebrate the way we do? Everybody has their own traditions and different cultures do different things; but there is something powerful with a deeper meaning that happens when we celebrate something that can cause us to view life through a different lens. Notes: Isaiah 9:6 KJV Joshua 4:6-7 KJV Psalm 78:4 NLT...

Notes: Genesis 46:1-4 KJV God knows you personally. Lamentations 3:22-23 KJV God knows His plans for you. Psalm 37:23 KJV God knows your purpose. Psalm 34:8 KJV

The Bible has many accounts of instant healing. Perhaps you even know somebody who got a miraculous healing. But what about the rest of us? And what if the healing we need isn’t a physical healing, but something deeper; like a spiritual healing or an emotional healing? What if it's relational healing? And what if something you’ve been trying to fix can’t be fixed at all - what if it needs hea...

We all have some “sacred cows” in our lives; belief systems and personal practices that may be irrational, outdated, unhelpful, and even counterproductive to what we say we’re trying to accomplish. Yet we cannot seem to let them go or even allow them to be challenged - even when holding on to them is hurting us. As we lead into Thanksgiving, we are looking at some common “thieves of thankfulness”...

We all have some “sacred cows” in our lives; belief systems and personal practices that may be irrational, outdated, unhelpful, and even counterproductive to what we say we’re trying to accomplish. Yet we cannot seem to let them go or even allow them to be challenged - even when holding on to them is hurting us. As we lead into Thanksgiving, we are looking at some common “thieves of thankfulness”...

We all have some “sacred cows” in our lives; belief systems and personal practices that may be irrational, outdated, unhelpful, and even counterproductive to what we say we’re trying to accomplish. Yet we cannot seem to let them go or even allow them to be challenged - even when holding on to them is hurting us. As we lead into Thanksgiving, we are looking at some common “thieves of thankfulness”...

This week begins a brand new chapter in our story; the next season of our journey as a church and as a people. We believe that God has turned our hearts toward our community, and we are excited to share with you the new name and the vision that accompanies it. New service times locally: 9:00 & 10:30 am Sundays, 6:30 pm First Wednesdays.  Why are we changing our service times? We want to make i...

Pastor Adam Drinkard shares with us a powerful and timely message about the importance of showing Biblical honor.

There is a world we cannot see that is influencing the world we can see; and in the Bible we see some pretty crazy things that low-key sound like science fiction. Are they real? What do they mean? And how can this help us in our lives today? This week, we look at a time and place when God used a Medium to literally bring a man back from the dead; and in this story we can find hope for our own live...

There is a world we can’t see that is influencing the world we can see. Supernatural forces are often working “behind the scenes” to orchestrate what happens in our everyday lives. How do we navigate that? Isn’t that kind of freaky? Am I safe? Today we look at one of the most overlooked and impossible moments in the Bible: when Jesus was crucified, and His death caused a bunch of dead people to co...

There are some things in the Bible that we don’t understand; some things that don’t make sense to our natural minds. Many times, it is because there is a world we can’t see that is influencing the world we can see. When the spiritual world begins to impact our natural world, how do we navigate that? Notes: Genesis 3:1-5 ESV Ephesians 6:12 ESV John 10:10 KJV Paul Harvey “If I were the devil” 1965 2...