Hillside Community Church Podcast
550 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHillside Community Church will live out Jesus’ life-changing message, seek to love our neighbors well, and develop authentic community where all people are welcome, worthy, and have a place.
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Isaiah - I Saw the Lord: The One Who Does a New Thing
January 04, 2015 05:00 - 30 minutes - 13.9 MBMost of the time the Bible tells us to remember—to remember what God has done, to remember who God is. But in Isaiah 43 God tells us to forget what He has done. This morning we’ll think about why God would tell us to forget the things of the past. Support the Show.
Isaiah - I saw the Lord: The One Who Uses Us
December 28, 2014 05:00 - 32 minutes - 15.1 MBIsaiah 49: 1-6 One of the questions we ask ourselves as we close out this past year is: Did I make a difference? Did the things I did in 2014 make a difference? Will things I do in 2015 make a difference? This morning we have good news that God is a God who works through us to make a difference. Support the Show.
Isaiah - I saw the Lord: A Man Acquainted with Pain
December 21, 2014 05:00 - 31 minutes - 14.2 MBIsaiah 53:1-7 As we move along the Advent journey toward the climax of Christmas Eve, we're reminded not only that there is the paradox of having a child on whose shoulders rests the government of the world, but also that this child is going to experience pain and suffering. And before he experiences glory and honor, he is going to be acquainted with sickness. And he would experience one of the most brutal and painful deaths, the death on a cross. Let's take a look this morning at our Lord Je...
Isaiah - I Saw the Lord: The Servant
December 14, 2014 05:00 - 35 minutes - 16.1 MBAmong all the things Isaiah saw about God, the one we're looking at this morning might have been the most shocking to him. Ina world of power, Isaiah sees that God is a servant. It's pretty amazing. Support the Show.
Isaiah - I saw the Lord: The Comforter
December 07, 2014 05:00 - 34 minutes - 15.7 MBIsaiah 36 - 40 Have you ever had a great success followed by a great failure? Have you ever "nailed it" but then failed it shortly after that? King Hezekiah was like the nation of Judah - a mixed bag. This morning we'll look at what God does with people like you and me. Support the Show.
Isaiah - I Saw the Lord: The King
November 30, 2014 05:00 - 29 minutes - 13.8 MBWe all have storms that enter our lives. We face a crisis with our health or our finances or our families. We lose a job or experience the loss of someone we love. And it feels like the bottom falls out. When the storms come, we have to ask ourselves-where can we find security? Who can take care of us? This morning we’ll think about what Isaiah calls us to do when it feels like our lives are falling apart. Support the Show.
Isaiah - I saw the Lord: The Judge
November 23, 2014 05:00 - 32 minutes - 14.9 MBIsaiah 24 This morning we're going to deal with one of the most challenging of all the images of God - that He is a judge. For some of us this makes us scared. For some of us this seems old-fashioned. For some of us we're glad He's going to get rid of those sinners out there. How should we think of this? How do we picture God as the judge? Support the Show.
Isaiah - I saw the Lord: A Broken-Hearted Farmer
November 16, 2014 05:00 - 29 minutes - 13.7 MBIsaiah 5 Last week we saw that one of the primary parts of Isaiah's vision of God was his vision of God's holiness - His otherness, His perfect purity. This week we're going to look at a very different but still powerful picture that Isaiah gives us of God - the picture of a farmer who has a broken heart. Support the Show.
Isaiah - I saw the Lord: The Holy One
November 09, 2014 05:00 - 40 minutes - 18.5 MBIsaiah 6:1-8 Sometimes when people talk about what God is like, it can feel like, "yeah, that's true, but what difference does it make? I need practical help. I'm trying to figure out how to pay my bills!" That wasn't the case for Isaiah. When he saw God, it impacted every area of his life. It challenged him and changed him and comforted him and encouraged him. This morning we're beginning a series in which we'll try to learn to see what Isaiah saw when he saw the Lord. Support the Show.
What are you discussing together?
November 02, 2014 04:00 - 37 minutes - 17.2 MBWhat do you think about abortion? What does the Bible saying about homosexuality? Do you think we should fight Islamic terrorism? What is God saying about poverty? Who are you supporting for the election? We all have questions and we like to discuss things with our family and friends. But when it comes to answering these questions, where do we go for guidance? An easier question to answer is "who won the game last night?" - we just need the information. But to what or where do we go for guid...
Fatal Attractions: Lust
October 26, 2014 04:00 - 37 minutes - 17.1 MBMatthew 5:27-30 As we finish up our series on the Seven Deadly Sins, we think about one of the most challenging of the fatal attractions - lust. God created sex and sexual desire to be a good gift for us. But because of sin, this gift can be a real challenge to deal with. This morning we'll try to understand the good and the bad of God's gifts of sex and sexual desire. Support the Show.
Fatal Attractions: Gluttony
October 19, 2014 04:00 - 29 minutes - 13.8 MBJoshua 7:1, 19-25 If anger is the deadliest of the seven sins – as it leads to violence, murder, and wars – gluttony is the most paradoxical: it is one of the most easy to commit and one of the hardest to overcome. It is a perverted obsession with things that we commonly need in order to exist, such as food and drink, but it certainly distorts other carnal desires. This Sunday morning we’re going to understand that this sin darkens the mind and blinds the heart, yet the Holy Spirit can empowe...
Fatal Attractions: Greed
October 12, 2014 04:00 - 37 minutes - 17.1 MBI Timothy 6:6-10 For many of us, we know that we have all the “stuff” that we need. We know that we have more than most of the rest of the world and we know that we have every reason to be content with what we have. But we still struggle with the voice inside our heads that says, “Yeah, but wouldn’t it be great if you had just a little bit more? Not a lot—just a little bit more.” This morning we’ll think about dealing with that voice. Support the Show.
Fatal Attractions: Sloth
October 05, 2014 04:00 - 32 minutes - 14.9 MBEphesians 4: 22-24 Remember the old song from Sesame Street about One of these things is not like other, one of these things just doesn't belong? That seems to fit when we get to this point in our study of the seven deadly sins. We know envy is deadly. And we've all felt the string of anger. But sloth? Really? Is it that bad ti take it easy? Don't we all need to learn to relax more? This morning we'll think about why Sloth makes its way into the seven deadly sins. Support the Show.
Fatal Attractions: Anger
September 28, 2014 04:00 - 35 minutes - 16.4 MBEphesians 4: 26-27 We all get angry! This is a reality we have to live with. But is there a difference between sinful and righteous anger? Our society has portrayed the God of the Bible as a very angry and raging God, who not only causes genocides but also encourages others to violence and ethnic cleansing. Is God angry? And what about God's children; can we be angry and not sin? Let's look closer this Sunday at what Christ is teaching us about anger. Support the Show.
Fatal Attractions: Envy
September 21, 2014 04:00 - 27 minutes - 12.4 MBProverbs 14:30 The Bible tells us to rejoice with those who rejoice and to weep with those who weep. But that's not always easy. Sometimes we find ourselves rejoicing when others weep and weeping when others rejoice. We take a secret joy in someone who is put in her place and we secretly struggle when someone has a great success. And too often the culprit behind this is envy - our next fatal attraction. Support the Show.
Fatal Attractions: Vainglory
September 14, 2014 04:00 - 34 minutes - 16 MBMathew 6: 1-4 Little kids are obvious about it: "Look at me!" they say. " I can make a big splash ! Look at me!" As we grow older we learn it's not good to tell everyone to look at us. But that doesn't mean we're over our desire to have other people notice us. We like to be noticed. We like to have people say nice things about us. That's not necessarily wrong, but when it gets out of control, it can be the fatal attraction we call vainglory. Support the Show.
Fatal Attractions
September 07, 2014 04:00 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MBDaniel 4 We’ve all done it. We’ve said to ourselves, “I know I’ll pay for this in the morning, but I’m still going to do it.” Or we’ve looked back at something we’ve done and asked ourselves, “What was I thinking?” The fact is that bad things sometimes look really attractive, but they can be fatal. This morning we’re going to start a new sermon series on some of the Fatal Attractions the Bible warns us about. Support the Show.
Can You Run the Rat Race and Not be a Rat?
August 31, 2014 04:00 - 33 minutes - 15.5 MBProverbs 10:9 One of the pressures many of us face in our workplaces is the pressure to compromise our integrity in order to make a buck or get a promotion or keep a job. It's hard to complete with people who seem to be able to cut corners whenever they want if we have to tell the truth and try to do the right thing. This morning we'll think about whether it's worth it to try to keep our integrity in the workplace. Support the Show.
Four Things God Never Does
August 24, 2014 04:00 - 29 minutes - 13.5 MBExodus 3:9-12 We all have patterns - Certain ways of doing things. When we look at the Bible, we see that God has some patterns as well - He tends to work in the same way over time. It's helpful if we know these patterns and this morning we'll look at four things God never does. Support the Show.
Teach Us To Pray: Ending Our Prayers
August 17, 2014 04:00 - 39 minutes - 18.3 MBMatthew 6:14 The Text for this Sunday is not in the NIV version, but is in NASB (New American Standard), yet it is a text we all recite: "For yours is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen." You only go around once, so why not strive for an effective prayer life? As we wrap up our sermon series on the Lord's Prayer we find that the last line is not found in the best New Testament manuscripts. However, the church through the centuries has always used this powerful ending for th...
Teach Us to Pray: Lead Us Not Into Temptation
August 10, 2014 04:00 - 25 minutes - 11.7 MBMatthew 6:13 This morning we come to the 6th and final petition of the Lord's Prayer, "lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." At first glance, we might ask, "does this petition suggest that God is the one who leads us to temptation? That doesn't seem right!" We'll dig a little deeper to better understand what we're asking for in this petition and what this prayer might tell us about God. Support the Show.
Teach Us to Pray: Forgive Us Our Debts
August 03, 2014 04:00 - 28 minutes - 13.1 MBMatthew 6:12 Forgiveness is one of the most difficult words to translate into other languages. We often pray for the forgiveness of our sins, but do we grasp the depth of what it is we are truly asking for? When we ask God to forgive us our sins we are then faced with a choice to live in a universe governed by grace or by law. Which will you choose? Support the Show.
Teach Us To Pray: Our Daily Bread
July 27, 2014 04:00 - 32 minutes - 14.7 MBIn the first half of the Lord’s Prayer we’ve been praying some very high and lofty, world-changing things. We’ve asked God to hallow His name, to bring in His Kingdom and to have His will be done. These are clearly important and spiritual issues. But Jesus wants us to know that being spiritual doesn’t mean forgetting that we’re also material—we need food! We’ll think about asking the Father to give us our daily bread this coming Sunday. Text: Matthew 6:11 Support the Show.
Teach Us to Pray: Your Will Be Done
July 20, 2014 04:00 - 26 minutes - 12.3 MBMatthew 6:10 If you could have anything in this world, what would it be? If you could change one thing in this world, what would you change? For most of us when we think about these things we have some ideas that immediately come to our minds. We all have things we want. But this morning Jesus teaches us that the best thing for us is to recognize that what God wants for us is better than what we want for ourselves. This morning we learn to pray, "Your Will be Done." Support the Show.
Teach Us To Pray: The Best Scenario
July 13, 2014 04:00 - 31 minutes - 14.2 MBMatthew 6:10 - Your Kingdom Come When you pray the line "Your Kingdom Come" from the Lord's Prayer, what comes to your mind? Living in a republic form of government, the concept of kingdom seems hard to relate to, yet it is an ancient concept that Jesus and the Bible often use in relationship to God's rule and dominion. This Sunday morning we're going to take a deeper look at what do we really ask when we pray: Come! Come! Father, Your Kingdom Come!? Support the Show.
Teach Us to Pray: Hallowed Be Your Name
July 06, 2014 04:00 - 32 minutes - 15.1 MBMatthew 6:9 When was the last time you've hallowed something? Not hallowed. Not hollered. But hallowed. Hallowed is not a word we use very much, but Jesus says that the first thing we ask for in our prayers is that God will hallow his name. This morning we'll think about what that means. Support the Show.
Teach Us to Pray: How to Begin
June 29, 2014 04:00 - 32 minutes - 15.1 MBMatthew 6:8 Beginnings are really important. As Aristotle supposedly once said (and Mary Poppins as well), “Well begun is half-done.” It’s not always easy to know where to start, but once we do, we can get going. This morning we’ll take a look at what Jesus says about starting our prayers, about how we approach God in prayer. Support the Show.
Teach Us To Pray: Rewards for Prayers
June 22, 2014 04:00 - 29 minutes - 13.4 MBMatthew 6: 5-8 Jesus says that if we pray we'll be rewarded. Is it true? Dr. Alexis Carrel, a Nobel Prize winner in medicine wrote a book in which he proved the therapeutic rewards of prayer. Prayer regularly, he wrote, and you will find your life improved. Prayer helps us resolve emotional conflicts, purge guilt and overcome negativism. By verbalizing what goes on inside, the pray-er practices a kind of self-inducted therapy. This morning we'll continue to look at Jesus' teaching on ho...
Teach Us to Pray: What Does God Think of Prayer?
June 15, 2014 04:00 - 28 minutes - 13 MBLuke 11: 1-13 Prayer is one of those things we all are for - it's a good thing to do and we know we ought to do it more. But it's not always so easy to put that desire into action. It's not always so easy to actually pray. As we begin our study of the Lord's Prayer this morning, we'll take a look at one of the prayer - God's attitude toward prayer. Support the Show.
In Over Our Heads
June 01, 2014 04:00 - 29 minutes - 13.5 MBI Kings 3:4-9 We've all been there. We take on a new task. It sounded fun and exciting. But now it's time to take up the responsibilities. And we realize that there's more involved here than we thought. The task is bigger and our skills our smaller than we estimated. Then it hits us. We're in over our heads. We've bitten off more than we can chew. And we need help. This morning we'll look at what King Solomon did when he found himself in that situation. Support the Show.
Riddle Me This
May 25, 2014 04:00 - 33 minutes - 15.5 MBPsalm 49 Sometimes, if you want someone to really learn something, you make them work for it. If the other person earns the knowledge, it seems to go deeper. This morning we'll take a look at a psalm where the writer wants us to try to figure out some important lessons out for ourselves - where he wants us to earn our knowledge. Support the Show.
Beginnings: Building the Kingdom of Man
May 18, 2014 04:00 - 25 minutes - 11.6 MBGenesis 11:1-9 The Tower of Babel The German philosopher Karl Marx wrote in 1844 that "Religion is the opium of the people," further advancing the idea that religion is a means of mass control and not a way to establish a relationship with the divinity. His ideas were fully fleshed out in the two ideologies that overshadowed the 20th century, Nazism and Communism. However, from the beginning of time human beings have tried to build their own ideal society and religion. Today we'll take a clo...
After The Flood
May 11, 2014 04:00 - 17 minutes - 8.04 MBGenesis 8 & 9Last week we left Noah in the ark and the earth covered with water. We saw that this was a picture of God's salvation. But what's next? Does God leave Noah high and wet? This week we'll look at the rest of the story. Support the Show.
Beginnings: The Flood
May 04, 2014 04:00 - 34 minutes - 15.7 MBGenesis 6-8On of the worst things you can do in our world today is to judge someone - to say that someone did something wrong. That can sound nice and at one level none of us like judgmental people, but we also have something inside of us that recognizes that judgement is necessary and actually good. This morning we'll look at a story about judgment. Support the Show.
When the Church Prays
April 27, 2014 04:00 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBMatthew 21:12-14We go to school to learn how the world works. We go to church to give praise and thanks to God and to listen to his Word. But where do we go to learn how to pray? This morning God's Word will show us the the place of prayer in our lives. But there is a question that pops into our minds: Does prayer really change things? Furthermore, if God is sovereign and he knows all things, why bother to pray? Support the Show.
New Life
April 20, 2014 04:00 - 31 minutes - 14.3 MBDid you ever feel like something was “too good to be true?” It sounded great, but there had to be a catch—things just never actually work out that way. That’s what Mary was feeling like on her way to Jesus’ tomb on Easter morning—it had been great, but she never really should have dared to believe it could last. Jesus was dead. The dream was gone. And then things got worse…but then…well, what happens next is really amazing.John 20:1-3, 10-18 Support the Show.
"Good" Friday
April 18, 2014 04:00 - 28 minutes - 13 MBJohn 19:31-37Why is Good Friday "good?" What is good about the unjust trial, beating, and crucifixion of an innocent man? Tonight we look at the Gospel of John to find the good in the death of Jesus - a death that brings us hope. Support the Show.
The Jesus Way: The King Arrives
April 13, 2014 04:00 - 33 minutes - 15.2 MBJohn 12: 12-19St Francis once said that we should "preach the Gospel at all times, and, when necessary, use words." This morning we'll look at a story in which Jesus preaches a really important sermon even though He doesn't say a word. Support the Show.
The Jesus Way: Not Too Late
April 06, 2014 04:00 - 41 minutes - 19 MBJohn 11We all have times where we feel like it's too late. Maybe we could have changed things earlier, but now it's too late. The marriage is over. The disease is progressed too far. My life is too big of a mess. It's too late. But this morning we're going to see that with Jesus around, it's never too late. Support the Show.
The Jesus Way: The Danger of Knowing Too Much
March 30, 2014 04:00 - 34 minutes - 15.6 MBJohn 9Jesus ran into a lot of challenges in his life. He dealt with people who were blind or lepers, prostitutes or tax-collectors, angry or depressed. He didn’t seem to have too many problems with these challenges. Where he seemed to face his greatest challenge was with the folks who were convinced they knew it all—those who knew what God wanted and didn’t want in every situation. This morning we’ll look at a story and see the danger of thinking we know everything we need to know about God. ...
The Jesus Way: Good News for the Outcast
March 23, 2014 04:00 - 32 minutes - 14.7 MBJohn 4: 7-26Many of us struggle with evangelism. We want to tell others about Jesus, but most of the time we don't know how. We feel embarrassed and it's outside of our comfort zone. This morning we will learn from Jesus the why and the how of evangelism. Support the Show.
The Jesus Way: The Heart of the Matter
March 16, 2014 04:00 - 28 minutes - 13.2 MBJohn 3:1-15Many of us know what it’s like to try to be good. We really want to be good, not just look good or feel good. But it’s really hard to be good. In fact the Bible says that we can’t be good on our own. This morning we’ll look at an essential thing the Bible says we need if we are going to be what God created us to be. Support the Show.
The Jesus Way: Facing Temptation
March 09, 2014 05:00 - 38 minutes - 17.8 MBMatthew 4: 1-11This morning we're going to continue to think about what it means to live The Jesus Way, what it means to grow to be more and more like Jesus. As we do that, we're going to learn a very important truth: if we try to follow The Jesus Way, we have an enemy who would like to keep us from moving ahead on the journey. This morning we'll look at some of the temptation that come our way as we seek to be like Jesus. Support the Show.
The Jesus Way: Training for Godliness
March 02, 2014 05:00 - 36 minutes - 16.6 MB1 Timothy 4:6-8As followers of Jesus we are not only supposed to believe in Him, but we are also supposed to live like Jesus. We are supposed to love and serve and give and put others first. But how do we do that? How do we grow to be more like Jesus? This morning we’ll talk about training to be godly. Support the Show.
Beginnings: Further East of Eden
February 23, 2014 05:00 - 38 minutes - 17.8 MBGenesis 4:17-6:8As we’ve worked our way through the first four chapters of Genesis, the stories we’ve looked at have been fairly familiar to some of us. But now we come to some material that most of us would simply choose to skip—lists of family names, strange stories of the sons of God, and a little information about the Nephilim (whoever they are!). We can read this a couple of times and still find ourselves pretty confused. This morning we’ll think about what we might learn from a part of ...
Beginnings: Breaking Bad
February 16, 2014 05:00 - 31 minutes - 14.6 MBGenesis 4: 1-16All of us have high expectations for our kids, especially when they are first born. But, what do you do when your first born is break bad? In Genesis 3:15, God promises Eve that her seed/son will be 'the deliverer'. Can you imagine the disappointment Adam and Eve felt after realizing that Cain turned into a murderer and not a deliverer? Support the Show.
Beginnings: Grace in a Broken World
February 09, 2014 05:00 - 32 minutes - 15 MBGenesis 3:21-24Last Sunday we talked about how nothing works the way it’s supposed to work in our world anymore. We don’t do what we’re supposed to do, the world around us doesn’t work right—there’s cancer and pain and death, and our relationship with God is off kilter. God has every right to just let us go. But this coming Sunday we we’ll see that He doesn’t do that. We’ll see how God begins to set the stage to make all things new. Support the Show.
Beginnings: It's Broken
February 02, 2014 05:00 - 34 minutes - 16 MBGenesis 3:8-19Last week we looked at how Adam and Eve decided not to trust God. We saw how they decided that they knew better than God and they did the one thing God said they couldn't do - they ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And we said that everything was changed after that - their sin - and ours - changes things - and always for the worse. This morning we'll take a look at what changed when we sinned. Support the Show.