Hill Country Bible Church Dripping Springs Sermons

What keeps me from being happy?

Psalm 15 asks the right question. It is a question that really does get to the heart of the identity of every human being. If you want to know who you are, if you want to know why you have been given breath, if you want to know what in the world your life is about, you need to ask this question. It is a question that gets right to the heart of the creative and sovereign purpose of God. It is a que...

And so, Psalm 4 is a wonderful look, a wonderful window into the heart of a man who's in the middle of that kind of trial, in the middle of the unthinkable. And in that way, it's a bit of a textbook for us on how to fight this spiritual war of trial.

This is a wonderful Psalm of hope and promise. But I would like to look at this Psalm as an interpretive lens with you this morning, maybe a different way of looking at Psalm 1 because there is a real way in which Psalm 1 really does summarize the life perspectives that are resident in every one of the Psalms. And I want to walk through the Psalms with you as if this Psalm is a God-given lens on t...

Conflict happens in all relationships, and marriage tends to bring it out.

Friendship is one of the most forgotten elements of marriage. Many of you probably realize your spouse is supposed to be your friend, but you really see attraction and passion and romance as the core of marriage. If anything, you see marriage as primarily romance spiced with a little friendship. But really marriage is friendship spiced with a little romance.

The one area that provides us the most joy, or the most heartache, is relationships. The closer the relationship the more joy or heartache the relation brings.

We’re going to learn principles about ourselves that apply to all relationships, including marriage. Here’s what I’ve found: there are no married people issues; there are only people issues that get worse in marriage. Marriage doesn’t really create problems; it just reveals them.

If your life is really going to be equipped in any spiritual way for real life, we have to see how it is that faith in Christ or how it is that Christ actually does prepare you to face the unavoidable brutalities of life.

Many of us have deep questions: Does God love me? Is God for me or against me? This text is designed to give us a confidence that is rooted in the character and grace of God so that the followers of Jesus would be courageous, hopeful and unstoppable.

Romans 8:1, “Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” That’s the essence of Christianity. That’s the central, foundational message of God to the world. This is what we announce. This is what we plead. This is what we lay down our lives to communicate to the nations and the neighborhoods: No condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

How do we live as broken people in a broken world? Should we give in to despair and assume that this is the way things will always be? Should we simply seek to numb our pain through whatever pleasures and comforts we can find in this world, looking to make the best of a bad world? By no means.

Something is very wrong here in chapter 10 of Daniel. The end of Israel’s captivity was near. Jeremiah had prophesied it; Daniel had read about it in Jeremiah, and he knows it is the end. But the end of captivity is not the crisis. Although Daniel knows that end is near, he also has been told that great hardship still lies ahead for the people of God. Generations of war and suffering are ahead, an...

If you want to know what a person looks like who knows God, Daniel is a good example of that. He was resolute; he was a man who loved God's word; was obedient to Him. He was a man who stood against the trends of the culture in his own day. He was a man of prayer; he was a man of godliness. This is a man who knew God and knew the blessings of knowing God, and he provides a wonderful picture of what...

Daniel 7 is a big picture chapter (though we often get lost in the details). It is recorded and passed on so that the Israelites in exile under an evil ruler will not lose hope but, seeing God’s certain victory, will rededicate themselves to his great purposes. The text is complicated, but the message is simple: despite present difficulties, we are part of God’s big picture—so we must not lose hop...

What is the final gospel truth that a loving God will unveil in this chapter? It’s not complicated. The Lord allows the aged Daniel to face his greatest challenge in a lion’s den to say to his people then and to us now: “Trust me.”

We have a deep desire for significance.

Not only do the people in the pluralistic society get nervous about Christians, but Christians are nervous about the pluralistic society. It creates great tension. How do we live as believers in a pluralistic society?

That even in the midst of the rise and the fall of world empires and the reigns of good and bad rulers and in good times and bad times, the kingdom of God will be established.

This first chapter records for us the stage. It explains to us how these fine young Jewish nobles ended up in the Babylonian court and it records for us their first test, their first challenge living in a different culture, surrounded by a different world view, surrounded by a different pattern of living, surrounded by a very different religious belief system than the one in which they had grown u...

There’s nothing more certain than that you’re going to suffer, and at least people around you are going to be suffering disease, death, disaster, deep disappointment, all of the “deadly D’s.” When you suffer, it’s so natural to ask the question … Why?

One of the most haunting questions we face concerns the problem of evil. Why is there evil in the world if there is a God? Why isn’t He doing something about it? Many assume that the existence of evil disproves the existence of God.

When you think about being a Christian there is a lot of conflict and a lot of tension and how to be a faithful Christian who simultaneously loves their community and neighbors and loves God when your neighbor and God disagree on a lot of very important things – how can you be that mediator in some way, that person in the middle that continues to love God and their community in spite of some of th...

The resurrection of the body and life everlasting, is the foundation of Christian hope, Christian courage, and the ordering of the Christian life. Our general hopes are good things as long as they're not your ultimate hope. They cannot be the engine that drives your life. No, there's an ultimate hope that drives our lives – ETERNITY.

We are called to engage in politics differently than party affiliation.