Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship: Recent Episodes
Brooks Potteiger
At Pilgrim Hill we are striving to cultivate sturdy, maturing Christians across generations, for the glory of the Lord and the gladdening expansion of His Kingdom.
Pastor Brooks and Robert have a conversation about how understanding the covenant helps us understand the gospel, and why communion is such a gracious gift from our Lord.
Also, on April 16th Pilgrim Hill's mode of receiving communion will be changing. We will no longer come forward to receive, but we will remain seated and be served. They hit on the"why" and "how" of this transition.
In this living room lecture Dr. Joshua Drake argues that beauty is not primarily the name we give to our preferences. Rather, beauty is first and foremost revelation.
pastor Brooks Potteiger
How can Christians know that, no matter what cultural pressures come, they will have courage to stand fast for Christ? In this text, Paul let the Philippians' know the foundation for his Christ–honoring courage: 1) Christ was his chief love; 2) the prayers of the saints, 3) the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
In this living room lecture, Dr. Joshua Drake helps us rediscover a biblical vision of congregational singing: "...Much of the modern confusion surrounding congregational singing can be resolved if we recall the way singing was naturally used by normal people before the era of public broadcasting—not as an emotion-machine nor as a thing of aesthetic contemplation, but as a vehicle for words."
This week's sermon is the final installment in the the series we began in our core group time.
In our core group time we are continuing to unpack the elements that, under God, will help us grow up into oaks of righteousness (Isa 61:3). What we have quaintly termed Our Oaken Ecosystem.
This week's element is the sunlight of grateful stewardship.
This week we continued on in talking through a biblical paradigm for Sunday worship, which some have called "Covenant Renewal Worship." This builds on God's instruction in Leviticus 9 for the sacrifices worshippers are to bring to worship, which are now cast in Christocentric light.
In this core-group talk we consider the privilege of worship, the priority of orderly worship, and we begin to look at the paradigm of Covenant Renewal Worship.
The second installment of our core group time, where we are working through the elements in our Oaken Ecosystem – the conditions necessary for growing oaks of righteousness (Isaiah 61:3b).
At Pilgrim Hill our mission is to grow oaks of righteousness (Isaiah 61:3b), for the glory of God and the joy of our great-grandchildren. To do that you need conditions by which, under God, oaks can grow. Throughout our core group time we'll be going through the elements in our Oaken Ecosystem. This is the a reading of the manuscript from our first meeting.