Calvary: the Hill Sermons (Audio)

A mountaintop moment, a glowing Savior, a thundering voice from heaven. In the Transfiguration, God says it loud and clear: Look. Listen. Follow. It's all about Jesus.

Jesus offers a raw and hopeful call to follow him by surrendering control, embracing suffering, and discovering your true self in him.

Jesus reveals himself as the Rescuing and Suffering King—and calls us to follow him in both victory and vulnerability.

Before revealing his full identity, Jesus exposes the hidden barriers that keep us from truly following him—ideologies, spectacles, and anxieties.

From healing a Canaanite woman's daughter to feeding a Gentile crowd, Jesus shows himself to be a Messiah without borders—and invites his disciples to follow in his compassion and mission.

Is your faith more about checking boxes than chasing God's heart? Jesus flips the script on an external religion and invites us into a deeper, internal transformation. If you've ever tried to appease God instead of pursue Him, this one's for you.

What does the resurrection of Jesus have to say to our shame, our failures, and the days we barely make it out of bed? Quite a lot, as it turns out. The risen Christ meets us where we are, calls us to a life of purpose, and invites us to follow Him - no matter what yesterday looked like.

As Jesus calls Peter out onto the water, we see the foundation, the life cycle, and the purpose of faith. Through storms, doubts, and bold steps, this story invites us to trust Jesus completely—even when it feels like going out on a limb.

Jesus invites us into a family that runs thicker than blood. In this sermon, we explore how Christ forms his chosen family—the church—through rejection, suffering, and a willingness to bring what little we have to him.

We explore the high stakes of the Kingdom of God—joy, priority, and truth. Jesus isn't just an option; He's the ultimate treasure. Tune in to discover what that means for your life.

Feeling discouraged about the state of the world or the church? We continue to explore Jesus' parables, revealing how God's long story of redemption offers hope and purpose in uncertain times.

We explore the Parable of the Sower and the mystery of the Kingdom's varied reception. why does the same message produce such different responses? Jesus reveals the state of human hearts and the power of truly hearing His word.

Jesus didn't come to establish a rigid religious system—he came to invite us into God's family. True discipleship means listening to God, rejecting self-righteous religion, and embracing the level playing field of the Kingdom. Join us as we unpack what it means to be adopted into God's forever family.

Jesus' ministry reveals a cosmic battle between God's Spirit and the forces of evil. Jesus challenges us to choose sides, root our lives in Christ, and align with the Spirit's mission of renewal through humility and surrender.

We are all seeking rest but do we really even know what that is? Often we feel more tired and restless. Jesus says only in Him can we find true rest.

Jesus' altar call is both a warning and an invitation. We explore His challenge to the self-sufficient and His promise of rest for the weary.

Doubt is a normal part of faith. We explore John the Baptist's moment of uncertainty and Jesus' response. What does it mean to trust God's timing, even when we don't understand His plan?

Jesus calls us to fear God more than anything else, love Him above all, and embrace the paradox of losing our lives to truly find them. Is following Jesus worth it? We unpack His radical invitation to surrender everything - and the promise of abundant life in return.

Explore what it means to live as a missionary-disciple in every aspect of life, embodying vulnerability, wisdom, and perseverance.

Jesus begins delegating His mission, revealing the motivation, authority, and focus required for Kingdom work. Why? Because we're called to his Mission.

Jesus shows his power to reverse the world's brokenness, healing the sick, raising the dead, and restoring hope. Join us as we explore the significance of faith, Jesus' invitation, and the promise that everything sad will one day come untrue.

As we step into a new year, we dive into the powerful truth of Romans 15:13, introducing us to the "God of Hope." Explore how God's character, joy, peace, and the power of the Holy Spirit cultivate a resilient, transformative hope that empowers us to face uncertainty and live as a people of light in a weary world.

As we close out the year, how can we find true comfort in the midst of life's challenges? We reflect on 2 Corinthians 1:3-5, discovering how the God of all comfort meets us in our struggles, reshapes our view of suffering, and calls us to share His comfort as we step into a new year.

This week we dive into the breathtaking reality of how Jesus' incarnation reveals the fullness of God's grace and truth. From the Christmas story to baptisms and communion, we celebrate the transformative power of the word made flesh, who lights up the darkness and changes everything.

We dive into the uniqueness of Jesus, the revelation of God's glory, and the transformative power of eyewitness testimony, showing how the Christian story is not just good and beautiful but profoundly true.

We unpack John 1:14, specifically the phrase "he dwelt among us" - revealing how God's ultimate desire to dwell with us is fulfilled in Jesus. We are invited to live out His love as we await the day He makes all things new and dwells with us forever.

This Advent, we reflect on John 1:14, beginning with “The Word became flesh.” The eternal God took on human form, uniting with us to rescue and reconcile. The incarnation is the heart of Christmas, calling us to wonder and worship.

Why did Jesus come? This week we unpack how His mission to save us from sin, call sinners into His Kingdom, and become the priority of our l ives changes everything.

If we learned the posture of Jesus' mission last week, this week we learn the power of his mission. He sets out to boldly show just who he is - the Son of Man and the Son of God - in being Lord of heaven and earth.

Coming off the mountain top where he gave the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus begins to practice what he just preached, and in doing so he shows us the posture of his mission - unequivocally toward the other of society.

As Jesus concludes his famous Sermon on the Mount, he wraps up with a series of ultimatums. His core question is, "What are you going to do with my words?"

People don't like judgmental Christians. Jesus doesn't either. He makes the case that if we can lay aside unrighteous judgmentalism, we can then take up the mantle and walk in the Golden Rule, for God's glory.

Jesus addresses anxiety head on in our passage today. As we seek to orient our lives around God and others, Jesus anticipates our "What about this?" and our "What about that?". Our anxiety creeps in and tell us that we should prioritize many things, not one.

Jesus dives into the practices of fasting and simplicity, and ultimately wants us to experience life as it was designed: simple and completely directed toward God and others.

When was the last time you really pondered the implications of these seemingly simple words? We're gonna dip our toes into the vast ocean of the Lord's Prayer.

It's not just the what of Jesus commands that are important. It's the how and the why. In our passage Jesus prescribes the spiritual discipline of secrecy, in which we "do not let our left hand know what our right hand is doing."

Last week we looked at the Greatest Commandment to love God with all of ourselves, and how our church walks in it. But what about the Second Greatest Commandment? Hear from Pastor Nick and other ministry leaders on how we walk this command out in the life of our church.

As Fall hits, we are looking at our Church rhythms. What is this church all about? Taking our cue from Jesus, we zoom out to rediscover that life is all about Love for God and others. You'll hear from Pastor Nick and several other ministry leaders.

The climax of Jesus' Old Testament precedent-busting commands is his command for Christians to love their enemies. The most beautiful part of this command is the motivation behind it. We love our enemies, because God is an enemy-loving God. We love our enemies to be close to him, and to be like him.

Jesus' show-stopping Sermon on the Mount continues with his most challenging command yet: His injunction against retaliation. As his followers, we are to illustrate God's missional heart by responding to evil, not with more evil, but with creative, surprising, and relational love.

Once again Jesus wades into a contemporary debate, this time on the making of oaths. Jesus sees through the practice as a loophole for truth-telling, and calls his disciples to a much simpler way of living: letting our Yes be a Yes, and our No be a No.

Jesus wades into a contemporary debate about the legitimacy and grounds for divorce. This is a challenging topic, and one that can feel distant from the grace of God. But what we see is that although King James' standard is high, his mercy is always standing ready.

Jesus has a high calling for us sexually. How can we possibly attain his intense standard? We both can't, and can. We can't, and therefore need his saving and empowering grace. We can with his Spirit's help.

Jesus dives into the deep end, calling out interpersonal conflict as an issue near and dear to God's heart. If we want to prioritize our vertical relationship with God, then Jesus prescribes making right our horizontal relationships as well.

Too often we get into this mindset that to have a better life, we must be a better person to please God such that he'll improve our circumstances. However, God is much more interested in simply being with us. Our Lord doesn't promise a life with no problems - he promises a life where he is always present. This is the very essence of the good news of the gospel.

The Apostle Peter makes clear that we are called to holiness, but what is it? Holiness requires three dimensions: that we act according to God's character, that we are different from the world we are part of, and that we are together as a loving community. Without all three, our view of holiness is deficient and deformed.

What was Jesus' opinion on the Old Testament? Does he stand over it? Does he sit under it? In his introduction to the Sermon on the Mount, he gives us his posture toward all of Scripture.

Jesus commissions his church to be both salt and light for the world. We are to be different from and yet exist for the world. How do we do this well?

At the outset of Jesus' famous Sermon on the Mount, he paints a portrait of a citizen of his kingdom using the Beatitudes.

Jesus begins his ministry with a BANG in Galilee, the rural area north of Jerusalem, which was prophesied by Isaiah long before Jesus' arrival.

Jesus's first act as the Anointed Messiah-King is to be led by the Spirit to be tested by the Devil. Ouch. But he aces the test, and shows us more deeply who he is in the process.