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Eph 4: The Truthful Church (pt1 of 3)
Today, I want to talk about Christian maturity. Individual maturity is important, but equally important is the maturity of our church. We have some mature or maturing members of this church, but in my opinion, as a church, we are still immature. How do we become mature corporately as members of Hill Community Church?… Read more
Matt 12 – The Lord of the Sabbath and the Promised Messiah (pt2 of 3)
1) Jesus shows that religion is all about rules.
1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. 2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.”
The Pharisees’ first accusation against Jesus involved picking of grains on the Sabbath.… Read more
Romans 11: Jesus is the Root of Salvation (pt2 of 4)
The Jews were the natural branches broken off and the Gentiles were the wild shoots grafted in. How did we get here? Paul starts by pointing out in v1-2 that the reason why the nation of Israel was cut off was not because God rejected them. Rather, they rejected God. Even so, just as in the days of Elijah when he felt he was the only believer in the one true God, Paul reminds his readers in v5 that these Jewish Christians in Rome are not alone.… Read more
Romans 11: Jesus is the Root of Salvation (pt1 of 4)
Romans 11:11-27
This the second part of a three-part series. Part one was Jesus is the culmination of the Jewish law found in the Old Testament. Part two today is Jesus is the root of salvation and next time, we’ll cover Jesus as the head of the church. This is Paul’s theology in a nutshell — it’s all about Jesus and in Romans 12, we’ll see how a life that is all about Jesus is expressed concretely and practically through his body, the church.… Read more