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On Sunday we got to hear from one of our missionaries, Nicole Mosher, on what adoption into the family of God looks like. This new identity of adopted sons and daughters affects every part of our lives. It means we can’t find identity in our giftings or what we can do for God anymore. We simply rest in His unconditional love, and yield to His perfect leadership. We get to labor alongside Him from that place of security. It means that we can overcome any earthly circumstance, not with our own strength or wishful thinking, but because of who our Father is.It is only as we stay connected to His heart, and receive everything we need from Him, that we will see the kingdom expand in us and around us. Link to Sermon Guide & Activations:05.18.25 Sermon Guide
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On Sunday Alex continued our Luke Series with a teaching from Luke 18v31-34.In this passage Jesus reveals to his disciples that He is the Son of Man who was destined to do what humans have not been able to do, by trusting in God and therefore crushing the head of the serpent.He is apart of God’s plan to redeem not just Israel, but the nations.His death and resurrection were real and bodily, meaning when we are baptized into Him we obtain resurrection life now, and the future hope of heaven and earth being fully united.And because He knows our frame, and that our ability to grasp the eternal is limited, He’s given us a meal. The bread and the cup, His body and His blood. This meal is how we see. Link to Sermon Guide & Activations:05.11.25 Sermon Guide
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This week’s message centered on the rich young ruler and Jesus’ invitation to “come, follow me,” highlighting how surrender is not about losing, but about making room for something greater—intimacy with Christ.
We explored how Jesus isn’t after our performance, but our hearts. Like the young man, we’re often held back by what we won’t release, yet Jesus looks at us with love and calls us to trust Him. Following Him means letting go of our grip on control, possessions, and pride so that we can live in the fullness of His way. The call is personal, costly, and deeply worth it—and it begins with a surrendered yes.
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05.04.25 Sermon Guide
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On Sunday we got to hear from one of our leaders, Laura Sharp on the passage in Luke 18v15-17 where Jesus teaches his disciples about childlikeness.
This story highlights the human desire to be great, and how Jesus’ definition of greatness differs from the world’s.
God designed us to be dependent on Him, but God is not dependent on us. He will never use our need to manipulate us. We have an all sufficient Father who wants to love and take care of us.
The mark of maturity in Christ is not sophistication, but humility - when we finally put aside the illusion that we are in control and begin to care about what God our Father cares about.
Our lives are meant to be like Jesus’ - wrapped up in dependence, longing and communion.
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04.27.25 Sermon Guide
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This Resurrection Sunday we got to hear from one of our elders, Austin Smith. He shared from Scripture and personal experience what it means to encounter the risen Christ. The Scriptures identify spiritual blindness as the thing that keeps people from knowing, believing in, and experiencing the person of Jesus and all that He is for us.When you get a revelation of Jesus, not only do you become spiritually alive and receive power to live a new life, you get the joy of knowing him and being loved by Him. This is the ultimate place to live from and what all of us were made for.
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04.20.25 Sermon Guide
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On Sunday, we got to hear from one of our elders, Andoni Montaño on Luke 19v29-38. This passage retells the story of Jesus entering Jerusalem as He begins His journey to the cross. In this singular moment we see a multitude of people reject the current world’s opinions and standards of power, leaving their personal issues and problems aside, to honor Jesus as King. Our worship of Jesus, even when it’s not practical or convenient, is what moves His heart and ushers in His kingdom. Andoni’s invitation to each of us is to consecrate ourselves again to set Jesus as the priority of our lives. Link to Sermon Guide & Activations:04.13.25 Sermon Guide
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On Sunday, Bria taught on Luke 18v9-14 where Jesus address the self-righteous with a parable about humility.
True humility, Jesus illustrates, is rightly placed confidence. This humility can only come from seeing God rightly, and responding rightly in worship with our whole lives.
To humble ourselves in worship will invite the conviction of the Holy Spirit, leading us to confession and repentance. If God meets us in reality, then we have to tell the truth in order to receive His grace that covers all. This is what a life of prayer looks like.
May our need for Him and our confidence in Him continue to grow as we become the Church he made us to be.
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04.06.25 Sermon Guide
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On Sunday we had the privilege of hearing from our friend, Pete Donor on the Parable of the Persistent Widow in Luke 18v1-8.
In this string of parables in Luke, Jesus is preparing people for how to live in light of His return. The Parable of the Persistent Widow highlights how necessary it is for us to pray at all times and trust God to keep His promises. We must stay aware of our need for God and continually receive His merciful provision through Jesus.
Lord, increase our faith as we prepare for Your return. Find us praying always, with courage and confidence in who You are.
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03.30.25 Sermon Guide
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On Sunday we resumed our Luke Series with a teaching from Bria on Luke 17v20-37. This passage highlights the dual realities of the kingdom of God and invites us to faithfulness amidst the tension. The kingdom is now and not yet. We live in and stand on the victorious blood of Jesus now, yet we also long for the day when He returns for His bride and makes all things new. In the kingdom, the only way to truly live is to die to yourself - to throw off sin and every worldly pursuit so that you can live into your true identity in Christ by the power and grace of the Holy Spirit. The kingdom of God is both visible and invisible. We must steward both if both are true - risking for visible manifestations of His presence, and also believing what He says about the invisible realities in which we live and move. Link to Sermon Guide & Activations:03.23.25 Sermon Guide
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On Sunday we wrapped up our series on prayer with a teaching on John 15 and our identity as those chosen to bear fruit.The fruit that we are appointed to bear is the renewal of all people to God’s design. We were appointed for this by God and it’s our responsibility to remain connected to Him as our life source in order to do so.We remain by believing truth about what Jesus’ blood affords and who we are because of it. We remain by living in thankfulness and acknowledging our need for Him. We remain by confessing sin and standing on Jesus’ blood for forgiveness.Revival is all about the priority of His presence above everything else. Link to Sermon Guide & Activations:03.16.25 Sermon Guide
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On Sunday, we continued this series with a teaching on declaring the word of God as prayer.
David shows us in the Psalms that in prayer there is a time for crying out in petition, exposing your need before God, and there is a time to rise and declare who God is and place your trust in Him.
When the pain of life strikes, we need to know how to strengthen ourselves in the Lord. We do this by staying connected to His voice and feasting on His word!
As we do this, the power of the gospel fills us and enables us to live by the Spirit.
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03.09.25 Sermon Guide
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On Sunday, Alex humbly offered this passage in Jeremiah as a word for our church in this season,
“This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem: ‘Break up your unplowed ground and do not sow among thorns.’” (4v3)
Much of the church in the West has been compromised over time through idolatry and arrogance.
Saints’ Hill, we are asking you, as priests and leaders, to set reality again by looking for unused land in your lives and our town, and breaking it up spiritually for a harvest of the kingdom in our time and place.
All of this tilling - the lament over our idolatry, the confession of sin, the return to the fear of the Lord in personal prayer - is meant to touch our valley, for His glory.
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03.02.25 Sermon Guide
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This last Sunday, Chris explored the link between prayer and wilderness throughout the Scriptures.From Moses, to David, to Elijah, and ultimately to Jesus - we see that God meets us in the wilderness. It’s in the wilderness of prayer that our vulnerability and lack of control are exposed. It’s in this unique place where God is able to minister His Presence to us, and where we receive our true identity as friend of God. We pray that you would venture into the wilderness of prayer, unto knowing Him and loving Him, and being known and loved by Him.
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02.23.25 Sermon Guide
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Jesus reveals in John 17 what He prays for you, what He longs to be true of you…and its oneness. From the beginning of creation, God’s desire was to be with you. He stopped at nothing to accomplish this aim, securing oneness with us through the blood of Jesus. Now, the overflow of our unity with Christ is our unity with one another. Jesus said that the world would get a revelation of God’s love when they see the way we love and prefer one another. Jesus also prays here that we would see His glory. The revelation of the glory of Jesus is what sets the Church apart - it defines our reality. We know in part now, what the world will fully discover when Jesus returns.Let your heart be encouraged knowing that you are still kept by the prayers of Jesus through the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Link to Sermon Guide & Activations:02.09.25 Sermon Guide
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Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane gives us the ultimate framework for how to pray and live in the midst of challenging circumstances and intense temptations. He shows us how we can actually make choices that align with God’s will.
A life of abiding in friendship with Jesus will transform your desires to the degree that you will be able to choose His ways.
Prayer is not a means to an end or an equation - prayer is a path to the person of Jesus. In His presence you will find everything that you need.
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02.02.25 Sermon Guide
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If Jesus is giving us a worldview in the Lord’s Prayer, the first couple of verses show us how we are to view God. The remaining verses show us how our view of God affects the way we live. To be human is to be in need of God, we are to come to Him daily to receive what the day will require of us. We have an enemy who intends to accuse us before God. We need the Holy Spirit to reveal truth to us so we don’t expand the enemy’s kingdom by agreeing with his lies. THE problem is personal sin, and the solution is forgiveness of sin. Jesus became to first lover and forgiver so that upon receiving His love and forgiveness, we would become those same things to the people around us. Link to Sermon Guide & Activations:01.26.25 Sermon Guide
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Last week, Alex shared why we pray - for the reordering of ourselves and the world we have responsibility for.
This week we will be looking at the Lord’s Prayer to see how it is we are to pray. The Lord’s Prayer offers not just a prayer to be recited but a worldview to live into.
We have a Father who desires relationship with us before anything. We also have a God who is holy - completely other. Our ability to grasp the holiness of God is the doorway into all kingdom activity. It’s His kingdom and His will that we are after on earth - meaning, we are invited to surrender all our own ideas and expectations for our life to see Him glorified.
When we pray the Lord’s Prayer with our lives, we become the bridge between heaven and earth that we were designed to be.
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01.19.25 Sermon Guide
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In Matthew 21v13 Jesus quotes the prophet Isaiah when He says “My house will be a called a house of prayer”. As a church we are going to take several weeks to lean into what it means to be a house of prayer. In order to understand why we pray, we must first understand why the cosmos exists… God created the earth to make a hospitable home for Him to live and rest with humans. Humans are made to take what God has made and to heighten it through their worship. The way we are designed to do this is through communication, or prayer. Prayer re-orders you so that you become the kind of person who can re-order the world. Link to Sermon Guide & Activations:01.12.25 Sermon Guide
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Last week we talked about depth in our gathering and how adding a cross to our physical space helps us view our gathering as sacred.
This Sunday Alex shared about depth in our mission as the Church. Our mission cannot aim at securing cultural relevance or political power. Rather, each one of us must be faithful to sow the seeds that God has given us, and depend on His power to bring about the promised harvest.
At Saints' Hill we are limiting our mission to connection with God (prayer). All fruitfulness is tied to communion with Him, so we look forward to how He will bring about the harvest in our town and in our time.
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01.05.25 Sermon Guide
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Every year our senior leader, Alex Rettmann, takes time to pray and think about a word that might give an aim for the coming year. This year that word is depth.
In an age where the Church is thought of as a place to help you realize your project self, we want to put front and center, the Cross. The Cross calls to us, come and die, lay down your life and trust only in Jesus. When we answer the call of the Cross, we can receive the power of the Cross - a life of otherworldly triumph and miracles.
It requires depth and maturity to recognize that we live by faith in a world of brokenness, while also living with the possibility of heaven on earth.
Thank you Jesus for the Cross.
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12.29.24 Sermon Guide
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