Hillview Baptist Church

Exploring the most controversial of the 5 points.

After a year away from the series due to Covid, we resume our Sunday morning adult bible class.

I Am The Bread of Life - John 6.34-40 - Mwindula Mbewe

Hillview Baptist Church from Chalala in Lusaka, Zambia, Africa.

Hillview Baptist Church from Chalala in Lusaka, Zambia, Africa.

Hillview Baptist Church from Chalala in Lusaka, Zambia, Africa.

Hillview Baptist Church from Chalala in Lusaka, Zambia, Africa.

Hillview Baptist Church from Chalala in Lusaka, Zambia, Africa.

Hillview Baptist Church from Chalala in Lusaka, Zambia, Africa.

Hillview Baptist Church from Chalala in Lusaka, Zambia, Africa.

Hillview Baptist Church from Chalala in Lusaka, Zambia, Africa.

A message on the healing at the pool of Bethesda.

The blessed person is ever-nourished which results in them being ever-green. Ultimately, true blessedness is about eternal security. Therefore. true blessedness is not so much blessing on earth but blessing in eternity.

The blessed person is ever-nourished on the word of God and this results in him/her being evergreen. Everything they do prospers. This is not a financial or material prosperity. This is the prosperity of a stable and grounded life.

True blessedness does not happen by accident. The blessed person ends up blessed by a deliberate commitment to God's word.

We will all lose our lives. The question is whether or not we will give up our lives willingly in submission to God in this life or hold on to our lives in sin and stubbornness and lose our lives in eternal punishment.

What does being a Christian involve? Let us get it from the author of Christianity, Christ himself.

Suffering is a big part of what it means to be a Christian. Suffering sanctifies and verifies.

Through the picture of the Good Samaritan we see that love takes action. It gets involved and follows through.

Our first anniversary as a church gives us an opportunity to think about the direction we need to go particularly our need to be a loving church.

We had the privilege of having Pastor Kennedy Kawambale of Chamba Valley Baptist Church preach to us from the very first verse of the bible.

God's transcendent peace comes to us by right prayer and the right anchor, Jesus Christ. This is the first of our single hour church services in line with the government directive to churches to reduce their meeting time to one hour in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The entire hour is recorded but the message starts 15 minutes into the recording.

Corona virus is a tool in God's hands to show that he alone is God and there is no other.

In this session we look at the reality of God's choosing those whom he would save, both the timing of the choice and the criteria.

In the story of the healing of the official's son, we learn several lessons about the rich, about faith and about how we become true believers.

A historical and theological introduction to Calvinism.

Jesus teaches us how we must relate with one another by washing his disciple's feet.

John the Baptist was called by Jesus, the greatest man born of women. His depth of knowledge about Christ gives us an idea of why this man was so lauded by Jesus Christ.

Having met the Samaritan woman, Jesus is urged to take some food which he declines. We see there Jesus' excitement about his encounter with the Samaritan woman and his exhortation to disciples.

Continuationists are fellow members of the household of God. Most of them seek the extra-ordinary as a means to experiencing a deeper relationship with God. The best response we can give them is what the bible says about those who are truly filled with the Holy Spirit.

In Jesus conversation with the Samaritan woman, the issue of worship arises and Jesus explains what authentic worship is.

In this session we take a look at the biblical charismatic gifts and compare them with what we see happening today.

Jesus offers us spiritual water that quenches the thirsts of this life.

Cessationists are often challenged to show where in the bible their position is taught. In this session the biblical case is presented.

Understanding the context of the most popular verse in the entire bible.

Reflecting on the first 9 months of Hillview Baptist Church, we look at the joy that results from gospel partnerships.

Joseph is the forgotten hero of Christmas. He did so much at great personal cost and yet he is largely forgotten. In him we see a picture of true Christianity.

We are dead in transgression and sin until God raises us up to newness of life by the Holy Spirit. Our responsibility is to call upon the Lord and be saved.

The Apostle John introduces us to two entities who saw the signs that Jesus performed and thought they were believers in Jesus but were not. Witnessing a miracle happen outside of us is not enough to make us true believers. We need to experience a miracle inside of us.

Jesus did not tolerate abuses in his father's house. Neither should we. Jesus had the authority to chase the culprits out of his father's house. Our housekeeping must happen in-house. We must ensure that we take the father's house seriously.

Jesus' miracle, the turning of water into wine, is famous for the wrong reasons. People use it to argue for whether or not Christians should take alcohol when it has nothing to do with that. Rather, this miracle is a lovely picture of the gospel.

We all have prejudices. The problem however comes when we are both prejudiced and proud. Thankfully, while Nathaniel was prejudiced against Jesus, he was not too proud to investigate the claims of Christ.

Even though Andrew has a comfortable position in John the Baptist's entourage he still recognizes that Jesus has something to offer him that he cannot get anywhere else. Thankfully, Jesus readily receives him and ministers to him.

Hillview Baptist Church from Chalala in Lusaka, Zambia, Africa.

John 1.29-34 The doctrine of the Holy Spirit is greatly misunderstood in our day. At Jesus physical baptism he modeled for us what spiritual baptism really is for he is the one, as John the Baptist says, "...who baptizes with the Holy Spirit."

John 1.19-28 In Matthew 11, Jesus calls John the Baptist the greatest man to be born of a woman. In our text, we see why Jesus thought so highly of John and how we too can become great in the kingdom of God.

John 1.14-18 "Absolute power corrupts absolutely," Lord Acton famously wrote. While power often brings out the worst in us, Jesus power brought out the best of him for John writes, "From him we have received grace upon grace."

John 1.10-13 Believing in the Logos - Jesus - is not as straight forward as we may think. In this message we see why like those to whom Jesus came, we too fail to recognize Jesus' place and receive his work except by the miraculous power of God upon us.

John 1.4-9 Having explained who the Logos - Jesus - is, John goes on to tell us what Jesus does. Jesus brings light and that light may not be as great as we may initially think for it is rejected more often than not.

John 1.3 Who is it who was busy creating the world in Genesis 1? To whom does God say, "Let us make man in our image," in verse 26? John tells us that it is Jesus - the Logos. He made everything in the world and sustains it.

John 1.1-2 The Greeks realized that there had to be an intelligent, governing power behind the complexity of the world. They called this intelligent being "Logos" literally translated word or reason. John says that the Logos is Jesus Christ and goes on to give the right theology of the Logos.