Hillcrest Bible Church

Text: Genesis 1:1-31Big Idea: In the beginning, God.God is the author and creator of all things.God made us special, and His image-bearersGod designed the world as a good home for us.Youtube LinkSermon Notes

Text: Nehemiah 12:27-47Big Idea: People are starved for happiness, and when God's people celebrate His faithfulness, the world takes notice.Setting the Stage for WorshipFilling the City with WorshipInvesting in Future WorshipYoutube LinkSermon Notes

Text: Nehemiah 11/Romans 16Big Idea: Nehemiah depicts the strategic repopulating of Jerusalem, and what is seemingly an unnecessary list of names actually holds significance, showing us what community is, what it looks like, and what it is based upon, that was true then and is true now.Unity in DiversityUnity in Core ConvictionsUnity in VictoryYoutube LinkSermon Notes

Scripture: John 20:1-18Youtube LinkSermon Notes

Scripture: John 12:12-26Youtube LinkSermon Notes

Scripture: Nehemiah 9:1-21Big Idea: A closeness to God leads to radical livingCloseness comes through the BibleCloseness comes through prayer & worshipCloseness leads to radical livingYoutube Link

Scripture: Nehemiah 8:1-12Big Idea: Nehemiah highlights God's Word brings RENEWAL to His people; stirring both deep conviction and great JOY.A people gatheredA people transformedSermon Notes

Title: Happily ObeyScripture: Nehemiah 8:13-18Big Idea: Nehemiah highlights what it looks like to live under God's word and the JOY in obeying the scriptures.God's people pursue God through His word.God's people happily act accordingly.God's people experience joy in obedience.Sermon NotesYoutube Link

Scripture: Nehemiah 6:15-7:73Big Idea: Nehemiah experiences a God-sized life victory, which further fuels his unwavering pursuit of God and alignment with His mission.Winning: Survival or Sweet VictoryWatching: Protecting the VictoryWorshipping in the Waiting: Real People…the Real PurposeYoutube Link

Scripture: Nehemiah 6:1-14Big Idea: Nehemiah reminds us, as we walk in the fear of our God, we must wisely discern what's in front of us as we desperately and dependently seek God's strength.Walking out a life of integrity understands evil exists.Walking out a life of integrity discerns wisely.Walking out a life of integrity fears God most.Sermon NotesYoutube Link

Scripture: Nehemiah 5:1-19Big Idea: Nehemiah reveals God's heart for the vulnerable and God's expectation for His people to act.Nehemiah heard the outcry.Nehemiah responds.Nehemiah sets an example for us.Sermon NotesYoutube Link

Scripture: Nehemiah 4:1-23Youtube Link

Scripture: Nehemiah 2:9-3:32Big Idea: After more reflection, inspection, and opposition, Nehemiah finally revealed his story of God's faithfulness to His people, inspiring them to respond in faithfulness to God. They understood they were not just rebuilding a wall.God answered Nehemiah's prayer and provided the God-sized vision, plan, and resources to make it possible.Nehemiah proclaimed God's faithfulness and invited others to join him.God moved the hearts and hands of the people to rebuild the wall and strengthen their faith.Sermon SlidesYoutube Link

Scripture: Nehemiah 2:1-8Big Idea: Nehemiah courageously approaches the king, at risk of status and livelihood, BUT GOD moves through Artaxerxes. Despite the king's own selfish motives, GOD's purposes are accomplished for His own glory!Nehemiah exercises the practice of learning to wait.Nehemiah's prayer and passion meet a moment, and he takes a risk.God moves and opens doors through people we least expect.Sermon SlidesYoutube Link

Scripture: Nehemiah 1:1-11Big Idea: Nehemiah's heart breaks for the stalled progress in Jerusalem's restoration. His heart is moved for the glory of God to be on display, so he repents and prays in desperation for restoration and then STEPS into God's invitation.Report of desperation.Response of desperation.Sermon SlidesEzra-Nehemiah BooketYoutube Link

Title: Empowered for Mission: The Relational Disciple-MakerScripture: 2 Timothy 2:1-7Big Idea: Help people, help people, treasure Jesus. The heart of seeking transformation.Be strengthened by Christ's grace.Be strengthened by what Paul has said and done.Be strengthened in anticipation of facing difficulties.Sermon SlidesYoutube Link

Scripture: Hebrews 13:7-16Big Idea: The life of a disciple is a joy-filled journey, strengthened by grace, to go seek transformation in the lives of the yet-to-believe.The Heart of Seeking Transformation.The Invitation to Seek Transformation.Sermon SlidesYoutube Link

Scripture: Hebrews 3:7-19Big Idea: We actively build and invest in community as an essential means of growing and persevering in faith, knowing any of us can drift. What is the mission of the Church?Building Community is essential in our identity as a disciple-maker.Building Community is essential because anyone can driftBecause we recognize anyone can drift, we take real, daily actionSermon SlidesYoutube Link

Scripture: 2 Timothy 1:1-13Big Idea: What if 2025 became the year we lived so fully in Jesus' love that sharing it became as natural and vibrant as breathing?What is the mission of the church?What is a disciple and what is not?How do we follow the pattern laid out for us?Sermon SlidesYoutube Link

Scripture: Ester 9-10. Romans 8:28Big Idea: Is God responsible for this tragedy?If God is ultimately responsible, what is His point?How should we respond as God's childrenSermon SlidesYoutube Link

Scripture: Esther 5-7Big Idea: The “Joy to the World” is greater than joy of the world.Joy of the world doesn't lastThe Joy to the World can't be taken away.It's a joy for tomorrow and a joy for today.Youtube Link

Title: Peace for Such a Time as ThisScripture: Esther 2:1 - 4:17Big Idea: True peace drives courageous action, even in uncertainty.True Peace with GodTrue Peace is testedTrue Peace withinYoutube LinkSermon Slides

Scripture: Esther 1:1-22Big Idea: Regardless of powerful godless leaders, God is with us in the miraculous and the mundane, producing confidence in uncertainty and a way of hope in all thingsGod is Sovereign. He Is in control of all things.People make a variety of decisions.Our decisions fit into God's sovereign planWe grow in a confident expectation of good things to come.Youtube LinkSermon Slides

Scripture: Ezra 8:1-9:15Big Idea: Ezra continues to develop the everyday, all-play story of faithfulness in the face of opposition; actively taking imperfect action to demonstrate our dependence on God and desperately pursuing our ongoing spiritual transformation.The continued journey of trust in God's provisionThe depth of grief in the face of compromiseThe movement towards repentance in the story of faithfulnessSermon SlidesEzra-Nehemiah Booket

Scripture: Ezra 7:11-28Big Idea: God provides His dependable presence and grace as strength and wisdom for leading others in our God-given missionsRecognize God is with usTake imperfect actionPraise God for His abundant mercySermon SlidesEzra-Nehemiah BooketYoutube Link

Scripture: Ezra 6:13-22Sermon Notes for This WeekSermon PowerPoint for This WeekYoutube Link

Scripture: Ezra 5:1-6:12Sermon Notes for This WeekSermon PowerPoint for This WeekYoutube Link

Scripture: Ezra4:1-24Sermon Notes for This WeekSermon PowerPoint for This WeekYoutube Link

Scripture: Ezra 3:1-13Sermon Notes for This WeekSermon PowerPoint for This WeekYoutube Link

Scripture: Ezra 1:1-2:70Sermon Notes for This WeekSermon PowerPoint for This WeekYoutube Link

Scripture: Psalm 78Sermon Notes for This WeekSermon PowerPoint for This WeekYoutube Link

Scripture: Psalm 46Sermon Notes for This WeekSermon PowerPoint for This WeekYoutube Link

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Scripture: Colossians 4:2-6Sermon Notes for This WeekSermon PowerPoint for This WeekYoutube Link

Scripture: Titus 3:9-15Sermon Notes for This WeekSermon PowerPoint for This WeekYoutube Link

Scripture: John 15:18-24Big Idea This Week: As a healthy HUB, we lovingly stand within the current culture's many obstacles, viewing them rather as opportunities to show God's truth, grace, and immense love.Sermon Notes for This WeekSermon PowerPoint for This WeekYoutube Link

Scripture: Philippians 1:27-30Big Idea This Week: As everyday missionaries our greatest ambition is topromote Jesus' love, seizing every opportunity to be living proof of His love in our lives. The characteristic Paul draws out that marks us as a community is unbreakable Unity.Sermon Notes for This WeekSermon PowerPoint for This WeekYoutube Link

Scripture: Titus 3:8-11Big Idea This Week: Our loving others, doing good works, is the unmistakable, inevitable expression of our treasuring Jesus, of our experiencing the life giving, life transforming power of the love of God.Sermon Notes for This WeekSermon PowerPoint for This WeekYoutube Link

Scripture: Titus 3:1-7Big Idea This Week: Relationships Are ImportantSermon Notes for This WeekSermon PowerPoint for This WeekYoutube Link

Scripture: Titus 2:6-15Big Idea This Week: We must live the truth and give the truth like it is the truth.Sermon Notes for This WeekSermon PowerPoint for This WeekYoutube Link

Scripture: Titus 2:1-5Big Idea This Week: Sound doctrine inspires Intentional Apprenticeship.Sermon Notes for This WeekSermon PowerPoint for This WeekYoutube Link

Scripture: Titus 1:10-16Big Idea This Week: When our beliefs are right, our faith stands strong against the wrong.Sermon Notes for This WeekSermon PowerPoint for This WeekYoutube Link

Scripture: Titus 1:5-9Big Idea This Week: Church leaders are not held to a higher standard. They are judged more strictly to our standard.Sermon Notes for This WeekSermon PowerPoint for This WeekYoutube Link

Scripture: Titus 1:1-4Big Idea This Week: True faith unlocks the promised hope of eternal life and overflows to a watching world.Sermon Notes for This WeekSermon PowerPoint for This WeekYoutube Link

Scripture: Overview of TitusBig Idea This Week: Paul encouraged Titus to “put what remained in order” in Crete. His letter will also inspire us, planted here in Dane County, to release everyday missionaries offering living water, scattering seeds, producing fruit, and becoming a healthy hub overflowing to a watching world.Sermon Notes for This WeekSermon PowerPoint for This WeekYoutube Link

Scripture: Acts 2:42-47Big Idea This Week: Having received an unmistakable commissioning to bring Jesus to the world and empowered by the Holy Spirit to accomplish this mission, the early church committed themselves to a simple, focused kingdom community centered around and dedicated to Jesus' glory and the good of others, producing profound joy.Sermon Notes for This WeekSermon PowerPoint for This WeekYoutube Link

Scripture: Acts 1:12-2:13Big Idea This Week: Jesus fulfilled his promise by sending the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, empowering his early followers to initiate the worldwide proclamation of the gospel. This is still our urgent mission today.Sermon Notes for This WeekSermon PowerPoint This WeekYoutube Link

Scripture: Acts 1:1-11Big Idea This Week: Luke starts his second book by highlighting the power of Jesus' ascension, which continues through the witnesses empowered by His Spirit.Sermon Notes for This WeekYoutube Link

Scripture: Luke 24:49-53Big Idea This Week: Luke's last words end where he began: good news of great joy for all the people. With this certainty, we must live with increasingly greater joy in Jesus. Sermon Notes for This WeekYoutube Link

Scripture: Luke 24:13-35Big Idea This Week: Jesus completes the men's journey to hope and demonstrates a model of discipleship with shared time, shared truth and supernatural conviction.Sermon Notes for This WeekYoutube Link

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:12-19Big Idea This Week: The evidence for Jesus' bodily resurrection is compelling and compels us to trust and treasure Jesus as Savior and Lord.Sermon Notes for This WeekYoutube Link