by ray | Feb 16, 2015 | Acts, NT, Sermons
http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/hillcc.org/2015/2015-sermons/SWS20150215.MP3 What drives you? What drove Stephen, the first martyr of the church? In our culture of performance, isn’t it tough to prioritize our relationship with Jesus over the work we do for Jesus?...
by ray | Sep 30, 2013 | NT, Philippians, Sermons
How come we treat our relationship with Christ as equal to the church or equal to the work we do at church? In fact, it may be more accurate to say, why do we treat Christ as LESS important than church? Didn’t Paul say in Phil 1:23 that departing this life and being...
by ray | Sep 30, 2013 | NT, Philippians, Sermons
Philippians 2 is one of the most important chapters in all of Scripture. If you could wring out Scripture like a sponge and gather the drops of the most critical themes, I think one of the drops would contain Philippians 2. What’s in this chapter is so...
by ray | Jul 11, 2012 | Church, NT, Sermons, Topical Studies, Vision
Paul is an interesting person. Sometimes, he seemed shizophrenic. At times, he was so humble. He referred to himself as a chief of sinners. And to the weak, he became weak, to the Jew he became a Jew, and so on. He was so accommodating. Yet, in Gal 2, we see quite a...