Huron Hills Church
313 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWelcome to the weekly audio podcast for Huron Hills Church in Ann Arbor, MI, where we are seeking an honest, compassionate, and hopeful faith.Visit us at huronhills.org, or find us on facebook: Huron Hills Church.
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Episodes
Philippians, wk5
November 06, 2018 15:00 - 29 minutes - 13.5 MBGuest speaker, Melodie Marske, continues through Philippians 2:12-18. We are encouraged to live out our identity as God's children marked by obedience and joy. Support the show
Philippians, wk4
October 31, 2018 04:00 - 47 minutes - 21.8 MBWalking through Philippians 2:1-11, guest speaker Rick Goetsch casts vision for the Church: even with our many differences, we may come together looking to the glory and love of Jesus Christ. Support the show
Philippians, wk3
October 23, 2018 04:00 - 28 minutes - 13.3 MBNate Veldhoff continues through Philippians 1:18-30 and shares four statements of powerful confidence that allow us to hold fast to the Joy of Jesus in every circumstance, even our suffering. Support the show
Philippians, wk2
October 16, 2018 04:00 - 32 minutes - 14.7 MBFrom Philippians 1:12-18, Pastor Nathan preaches on the unstoppable power of God to advance the good news of Jesus, our greatest joy. This gospel changes everything! Support the show
Philippians, wk1
October 08, 2018 04:00 - 31 minutes - 14.7 MBPastor Nathan kicks off our Philippians series! Preaching from Philippians 1:1-11, we are reminded of the deep grace, peace, love, and fellowship to be found in Jesus and with each other. Support the show
Seeking an Honest, Compassionate, and Hopeful Faith, wk4: Hopeful
October 01, 2018 04:00 - 30 minutes - 13.9 MBWhat could it look like to make your home at a church filled with hope? Is hope simply a church word for optimism? Why on earth be hopeful when we look at the world around us?Support the show
Seeking an Honest, Compassionate, and Hopeful Faith, wk3: Compassion
September 24, 2018 04:00 - 34 minutes - 15.9 MBContinuing our vision series, Pastor Nathan preaches on the radical compassion of God, extended toward us and His whole world, that we get to take part in extending toward others.Support the show
Seeking an Honest, Compassionate, and Hopeful Faith, wk2: Honest
September 17, 2018 04:00 - 15 minutes - 7.24 MBAs we continue our series on seeking an honest, compassionate, and hopeful faith, Pastor Nathan discusses the ways that honesty and openheartedness shape who Huron Hills is as a church home. (this audio file is broken. We apologize.)Support the show
Seeking an Honest, Compassionate, and Hopeful Faith, wk1: Seeking
September 11, 2018 04:00 - 35 minutes - 16.6 MBPreaching from Luke 15, Pastor Nathan kicks off our Huron Hills Church vision series. Just as God seeks after us, we want to take on this same posture as we seek an honest, compassionate, and hopeful faith in Jesus.Support the show
Parable, Prayer, Spirit
September 05, 2018 04:00 - 30 minutes - 14 MBPreaching from the story of the unjust judge in Luke 18:1-8, Pastor Nathan encourages us to pray at all times, never giving up.Support the show
Prayer, wk4
August 28, 2018 04:00 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBWrapping up our prayer series, Nate Veldhoff teaches about how pace and posture can help us make sure our life of prayer is truly a lifetime of prayer.Support the show
Prayer, wk3
August 28, 2018 04:00 - 43 minutes - 19.9 MBPastor Nathan and Nate Veldhoff encourage us toward boldness in prayer through bold letting go and bold quietness.Support the show
Prayer, wk2
August 14, 2018 04:00 - 33 minutes - 15.4 MBPastor Nathan preaches on the voice of God and how God longs to be with and speak with us.Support the show
Prayer, wk1
August 07, 2018 04:00 - 33 minutes - 15.5 MBKicking off our series on Prayer, Nate Veldhoff challenges us to notice our presence, expectations, and feelings within and around our own lives of prayer.Support the show
Psalms, wk5—Psalm 145
July 30, 2018 04:00 - 21 minutes - 10.6 MBDirector of Worship & the Arts, Betsy King unfolds the themes of Psalm 145, and calls us to mindfully experience joy and praise as a gateway to God's Kingdom.Support the show
Psalms, wk3
July 16, 2018 04:00 - 22 minutes - 10.9 MBNate Veldhoff preaches from Psalm 85 and challenges us to listen to God's promise of peace.Support the show
Psalms, wk2
July 10, 2018 04:00 - 29 minutes - 14.3 MBGuest speaker Melodie Marske preaches hope from Psalm 48.Support the show
Psalms, wk1
July 02, 2018 04:00 - 22 minutes - 11 MBPastor Nathan delivers a word of encouragement from Psalm 30 on God's constant, everlasting presence.Support the show
Summer at the Movies, wk3 [Belonging]
June 18, 2018 04:00 - 28 minutes - 16.7 MBJumping off from the movie "Coco," Pastor Nathan addresses our need for belonging and encourages us to rest in the truth that we have perfect belonging and perfect acceptance in the arms of our Heavenly Father.Support the show
Summer at the Movies, wk2 [Significance]
June 11, 2018 04:00 - 27 minutes - 16.1 MBJumping off from the movie The Incredibles, Nate Veldhoff encourages us to surrender our need to produce our own significance and instead look to God who declares each of us to be significant, chosen, and perfectly loved by Him.Support the show
Summer at the Movies, wk1
June 04, 2018 04:00 - 32 minutes - 18.5 MBJumping off from themes in "The Greatest Showman," Pastor Nathan explores how our core desires of security, significance, and belonging are good things, given by God, and perfectly met by God.Support the show
Trinity Sunday
May 29, 2018 04:00 - 20 minutes - 9.55 MBNate Veldhoff preaches on the Holy Trinity and challenges us to look upon God in wonder.Support the show
Pentecost Sunday
May 22, 2018 04:00 - 26 minutes - 12.1 MBCelebrating the story of Pentecost in Acts 2:1-21, guest speaker, Lindsey Smallwood, delivers a challenging and comforting word about the reliable and surprising Holy Spirit.Support the show
Ascension Sunday
May 15, 2018 04:00 - 29 minutes - 13.5 MBPastor Nathan preaches from Acts 1:1-11 as we together celebrate and meditate on Christ's Ascension.Support the show
A Song of Easter
May 14, 2018 04:00 - 22 minutes - 10.3 MBPastor Nathan delivers a meditation of hope and praise from Psalm 98.Support the show
Resurrection Hope, Week 5
April 29, 2018 04:00 - 26 minutes - 12.4 MBNate Veldhoff brings a powerful message of hope from the book of Haggai.Support the show
Resurrection Hope, wk3
April 23, 2018 04:00 - 26 minutes - 14.3 MBGuest speaker, Lindsey Smallwood, revisits the words of Haggai 1:1-15. Like the Israelites, we are invited into the work of rebuilding God's temple. But for us, God's temple is all of us together, living in His now and not yet kingdom for which we long and to which we belong.Support the show
Resurrection Hope, wk2
April 17, 2018 04:00 - 6 minutes - 5.24 MBAs we gathered around tables to worship, Pastor Nathan leads us in a meditation on Acts 3:12-19. In this passage, we see the patient grace of resurrection and the continual refreshment of an Easter God making us an Easter people inhabiting an Easter world.Support the show
Resurrection Hope, wk1
April 09, 2018 04:00 - 17 minutes - 8.1 MBPreaching from Haggai 1:1-15, Pastor Nathan kicks off our series, "Resurrection Hope; the Words of Haggai." In the words of this prophet, we find an Easter hope that goes far beyond just one Sunday a year. Here we find the hope of our God who is always working and always with us.Support the show
Make Us New, Maundy Thursday
April 03, 2018 04:00 - 12 minutes - 5.8 MBOn this Maundy Thursday, we hear a powerful word from our Worship Arts Director, Betsy King. Together, we are invited to remember and to experience the transforming love and presence of God in the everyday things around us.Support the show
Make Us New, wk7 [Easter Sunday]
April 03, 2018 04:00 - 22 minutes - 10.2 MBAlleluia! The Lord is risen! He is risen, indeed! Alleluia!Support the show
Make Us New, wk 6 [Palm Sunday]
March 27, 2018 04:00 - 17 minutes - 7.87 MBOn this Palm Sunday, we are invited to gather around the holy place that is the person of Jesus and to spread ourselves before him, the King who humbled himself to the point of death on a cross.Support the show
Make Us New, wk5
March 20, 2018 04:00 - 30 minutes - 14.1 MBGuest speaker, Rick Goetsch, takes us through John 12:20-33. We are made new, given new life, by Jesus's redeeming death on the cross.Support the show
Make Us New, wk4
March 13, 2018 04:00 - 25 minutes - 11.5 MBPreaching from John 3:14-21, guest speaker, Melodie Marske, tells of how Jesus makes us new when we step into His life, love, and light.Support the show
Make Us New, wk3
March 05, 2018 05:00 - 24 minutes - 11.2 MBNate Veldhoff preaches from John 2:13-22 and challenges us to leave behind the clutter in our lives because Jesus makes us new when we make room.Support the show
Make Us New, wk2
February 26, 2018 05:00 - 24 minutes - 11.2 MBPastor Nathan relays Jesus's two-fold challenge from Mark 8:31-38: to get out of God's way and stop resisting His work of love, as well as to get in step and follow Jesus's pattern of renewal.Support the show
Make Us New, wk1
February 19, 2018 05:00 - 22 minutes - 10.4 MBPastor Nathan kicks off our Lent series, Make Us New, preaching from Mark 1:9-15. Jesus makes us new when we respond to His call to repentance in a way that faces reality, agrees with God about that reality, and chooses to believe that God's love will uphold us anyway.Support the show
Jesus Revealed, Transfiguration Sunday
February 12, 2018 05:00 - 22 minutes - 10.4 MBPreaching from Haggai 1:1-9 and Mark 9:2-9, we celebrate the Transfiguration of Jesus together.Support the show
Jesus Revealed, wk4
February 05, 2018 05:00 - 30 minutes - 13.9 MBNate Veldhoff speaks from Matthew 16:13-24 and challenges us to identify the areas in our lives where we have replaced the real Jesus with a "Jesus idol." Yet Jesus's response, no matter how far we have wandered, is to draw us closer to himself.Support the show
Jesus Revealed, wk3
January 30, 2018 05:00 - 33 minutes - 15.3 MBHear from guest speaker, Rick Goetsch, as he encourages us to encounter the grace and truth of Jesus we see in Mark 2:1-12.Support the show
Jesus Revealed, wk2
January 22, 2018 05:00 - 25 minutes - 11.9 MBHear from our Worship Arts Coordinator, Nate Veldhoff, as he shares from John 21. We are encouraged to meet with Jesus, because He is ready for you. Jesus is ready for you right now, you as you are, you personally.Support the show
Jesus Revealed, wk1
January 15, 2018 05:00 - 25 minutes - 11.5 MBSpeaking from Luke 5:1-11, Pastor Nathan encourages us to embody the same practices Jesus embodied: empowering others through truthful grace and gracious truth.Support the show
Baptism of Jesus
January 08, 2018 05:00 - 22 minutes - 10.3 MBAs we begin our Epiphany series, "Jesus Revealed," we celebrate the baptism of Jesus. Preaching from Mark 1:4-13, Pastor Nathan encourages us toward deeper trust in Jesus who sometimes crashes into our lives and other times is quietly working behind the scenes.Support the show
Advent 2017, wk3
December 19, 2017 05:00 - 26 minutes - 12.3 MBNate Veldhoff speaks about how God is doing a restorative work in the world by doing a restorative work in people. We join God in the restoration of the world by being restored ourselves.Support the show
Advent 2017, wk1
December 04, 2017 05:00 - 19 minutes - 9.19 MBPreaching from Mark 13:24-37, Pastor Nathan encourages us to be watchful as we enter into this season of Advent. It may feel easy to look around and chose to despair, but we must have confidence that God IS doing a reconciling work, and that Christ IS coming.Support the show