Hillview Baptist Church: Recent Episodes
Mwindula Mbewe
After a year away from the series due to Covid, we resume our Sunday morning adult bible class.
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.
Suffering is a big part of what it means to be a Christian. Suffering sanctifies and verifies.
What does being a Christian involve? Let us get it from the author of Christianity, Christ himself.
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.
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.
Cessationists are often challenged to show where in the bible their position is taught. In this session the biblical case is presented.
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.
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.
An overview of John's gospel explaining it's major themes of miracles, encounters, I AM's and discourses all meant to show us that Jesus is God and we must believe in him.
An overview of the Gospel of John beginning with a look at the author, John, the disciple who Jesus loved.
Psalm 51.16-19
We need God's forgiveness before we can worship. In fact, when we seek God's forgiveness correctly that is actually the beginning of true worship.
Psalm 51.13-15
When God forgives us he makes us teachers, puts a song on our lips and opens our mouth to declare his praise.
Psalm 51.11-12
There are two types of forgiving parents. The one type forgives but leaves the child feeling guilty and distant. The other type forgives the child and draws them in. In both cases the children are forgiven but only in the latter is warmth restored to the relationship. God is like that second parent.
Psalm 51.1-10
The ultimate Psalm of repentance teaches us that sin is dirt and when God forgives us he washes us clean.
Deuteronomy 21.22-23
The most poignant text about the immensity of what Jesus Christ did for us on the cross in all of Moses' writings comes from an obscure passage explaining how criminals guilty of a capital offence were to be disposed. Jesus did not hang on the cross pretty, Jesus hang on the cross cursed by God for us.
Numbers 21.4-9
The grumbling and complaining of the Israelites angered God just as our own grumbling does. In this message the evil of grumbling is exposed and Christ is lifted up as the solution to the punishment we should receive for grumbling and as the source of the power we need to overcome it.
Leviticus 16
The complexity of relationship with God in the Old Testament was necessary due to God's holiness and man's sinfulness but Christ Jesus lightens our load in the New Testament by being our goat of atonement and our scapegoat.
Exodus 12
The greatest event in Israel's ancient history was their miraculous liberation from Egypt. The Passover feast was instituted to commemorate that momentous occasion and points us to the means by which judgment can Passover us, the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, Jesus Christ.
Genesis 22.1-18
We kick off a five week series titled "The Gospel According to Moses" by looking at Abraham's greatest test and how it points us to Jesus, our provision.
Genesis 2-3
Dr. Voddie Baucham brings our Sunday morning bible studies on the theme of work to a close with this message explaining work from the perspectives of creation, fall and redemption.
Romans 12.1-2
The church must be a body of people who have given all they are and have to God.
Matthew 28.18-20
Raising a child from birth to adulthood is a full time commitment. Making disciples is quite similar and God calls his church to be about the business of making disciples.
Acts 2.42-47
The story of the first church gives us a blue print for what the fellowship in the community of believers must be.
Hebrews 10.24-25
We get more from gathering with believers than we think. God calls the church to faithfully assemble together for corporate worship.
Isaiah 9.6-7
The church is God's government. He has wanted a people who would be his and who's he would be and this has finally been realized through Jesus Christ.