Teachings
Current Teaching Series:
Sermon on the Mount
The Sermon on The Mount (Matthew 5-7) contains some of the most quintessential of Jesus’s teachings concerning the kingdom of heaven. There are many kingdoms of this world, many empires, and powers that want to compete for our allegiance and devotion. But the kingdom of heaven is upside down in regard to the power structures and value systems of our dominant culture. Join us as we unpack these important revelations of the kind of Kingdom Christ wants to build in and through us.
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2026 Teaching Archive
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“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” The Scriptures have a lot to say about our Lord and Savior, Jesus of Nazareth. Who we think Him to be shapes the way we worship and the way we live. Beginning this Sunday, May 31 and through the summer, we will survey the Gospel according to John and contemplate the important question: Who is Jesus?
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The early Christians had to continually swim against the current of their cultures’ expectations and power structures, because Jesus introduced to them a kingdom that was not like the kingdoms of this world. We may live a couple of thousand years removed from their context, but perhaps our cultural reality is much the same. Christ has called his people to live against the grain of the world around us, and when we do, we find great joy! Perhaps joy is not just about feeling happy. But about living in step with Jesus! Join us this Eastertide season as we step into Paul’s letter to the Philippians in our new teaching series, “Rejoice.”
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So often, the presence and power of God are found in the most unlikely people and places. Who and what our culture may dismiss as irrelevant, God often elevates to a place of honor and importance. Jesus is the King of an upside-down kingdom. As we begin the journey of Lent, a time marked with repentance, fasting, and the reorientation of our lives around Jesus, we will study the book of Ruth. This is a story where the goodness of God is displayed in unlikely people, unlikely places, and during an unlikely time. What does it look like for followers of Jesus to find God’s goodness even when everything falls apart?
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If you've been around Red Hills for long enough, perhaps you've heard us say that we have a dream that one day, all people in our community would be fully embraced, fully transformed in Christ. We want everyone to know the loving Christ and to experience how knowing him changes everything, and from that place of belonging, we then invite others to experience that same grace of embrace and transformation. This is Discipleship. We have been exploring and discerning as a leadership team how to best contextualize this work in our community, and from this process has come something we call the "Discipleship Pathway". In many ways, it simply brings clarity and language to what we've already seen God doing in our midst, and we are hoping that it serves as a helpful tool as we facilitate the work of discipleship here at Red Hills. During this next teaching series, we are going to take five weeks and look to the scriptures to inform how we go about Christ's commission to his followers to make disciples. Join us as we dream about the embrace and transformation of our community!
2025 Teaching Archive
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It's easy to be overwhelmed in our world. There is more noise than ever, and it sometimes feels like our communities are falling apart. We need hope, and that's what we find in our loving Savior, Jesus. Join us this Advent season as we celebrate and anticipate the arrival of our Lord, Christ Jesus, who is still the best hope for the world as it is now, and the best picture of the world as it will be!
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God’s presence has always been the heartbeat of His people. In Exodus, the tabernacle wasn’t just a tent; it was the dwelling place of God among His chosen people, shaping their identity and calling them to live differently in the world. As we step into this next part of our series, we’ll explore what it means to steward the presence of God in our own cultural moment. How do we carry His presence into our homes, neighborhoods, and workplaces? And what does it look like to live out the mandate of being God’s people here and now? Join us as we journey through Exodus and discover together how the ancient story of the tabernacle speaks powerfully into the world we’re living in today.
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A phrase that encapsulates what we feel God is doing at Red Hills Church is, “Following Jesus From Fear to Love.” We have a dream that one day, all people in our community would be fully embraced and fully transformed in Christ. But the problem is our world is driven by fear, so we create cultures of division, isolation, and shame. So, we will take the next four weeks to unpack what it looks like to foster a community that follows Jesus from fear to love. If you want to know what God is doing in our midst and where we believe the Holy Spirit is leading us in the coming days, we would love to invite you to come and join this conversation with us.
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The narrative of Exodus has brought us to Part 4: The Commandments. As we continue the journey of God’s people out of Egypt, we now arrive at Mount Sinai, where God delivers His covenant through the Ten Commandments. These timeless words are more than ancient rules, they are a reflection of God’s heart and His desire for a set-apart people. For the next four weeks, we will explore how these commandments still shape our worship, relationships, and witness today. Don’t miss this opportunity to rediscover the purpose and power behind God's commands.
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What now? As we continue through Exodus, we have seen God’s power on display, His faithfulness proven, and Moses leading the Israelites through it all. In the chapters ahead, the story slows for a crucial moment. Here, leadership is reshaped and God meets His people in a new way. Moses learns to lead with wisdom, to share the load, and to embrace healthy rhythms in community, all of which set the stage for God’s invitation into covenant. Though this section is brief, it offers timely wisdom, reminding us that preparation and formation are essential parts of the journey.
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Join us as we begin our series The Exodus: The Rescue (Part 2). We will continue our journey through the book of Exodus and explore what this core narrative of the Scriptures has to teach us about the character of God and our place in the story of humanity. Together, we'll seek God and ask Him to shine the light of His Word onto our lives and our world!
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Listen to the message from Pentecost Sunday.
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In a world full of reasons to despair, what does it look like to practice joy as a discipline?
Join us as we begin our journey through Colossians— Paul’s prison letter of hope— where we learn how to speak life, pray for growth, and live as heirs of light in the midst of darkness. This Eastertide, let’s become people of resurrection by celebrating new life, even when it feels costly.
What does it look like to carry the joy of the resurrection with us in every chapter of our lives?
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Listen to the messages from our Holy Week services: Palm Sunday & Easter
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I once heard it said that a faithful Christian life looks like holding the grief of crucifixion in one hand and the hope of resurrection in the other. Those of us who apprentice under Jesus find ourselves constantly in the tension between the hope of God's promises and the sometimes painful realities around us and around the world. Lent is a season to embrace the grief and the gratitude of our lives. It is a time for fasting, reflection, repentance, and lament, all of which is worship unto God, given in the spirit of gratitude. In the Creation narrative in Genesis, we see God form humans from the dust and breathe his Spirit into them to give them life. We quickly learn that apart from his presence, we are but dust, but with his Spirit, we are fully alive. We are dust and breath. Join us during this Lenten season as we create space for the tension between grief and gratitude in our teaching series "Dust and Breath.”
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A study of the book of Exodus where we explore what the core narrative of the Scriptures has to teach us about the character of God and our place in the story of humanity.
2024 Teaching Archive
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In our world, those in high position are given great honor and respect, but in the Kingdom of God, the world's power structures are turned upside-down. For those of us who follow Jesus, we look to a King who, upon his arrival, was met with very little earthly honor, yet all the authority in Heaven and on Earth was upon him. This king brings with him the hope, peace, joy, and love of God, and he invites, not only the rich and the powerful but also the ordinary and the humble to be a part of his work in the world. Our king makes first the last, who exalts the humble, and who brings light to the darkness. We invite you to join us this Christmas season as we celebrate the arrival of our king, Jesus.
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During the early years of the Church, people who followed Jesus found themselves participating in a community that welcomed and transcended all areas of identity, ethnicity, social location, gender, and culture. These Jesus-followers had entered into the gift of a New Humanity, bound together in unity through The Holy Spirit. These Jesus followers would come to be known as “People of The Way,” communities of people from all social locations and cultures who were set apart by the way they loved God, their neighbors, and even their enemies.
Perhaps you’ve witnessed the ways we Jesus followers have missed the mark when it comes to living out our devotion to Jesus faithfully and wonder what it means to live authentically as followers of Jesus in this cultural moment. Don’t worry, we aren’t the first ones! Right when the Church began, these communities wrestled with the struggle of faithfully following in the way of Jesus, none more so perhaps than the Christians living in Corinth. Our Bibles contain two letters written by the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians documenting this community's struggle to live faithfully to Jesus in a culture that operated contrary to “The Way.” So join us this summer as we explore what it means to be a people who baffle the wisdom of this world by the way we love Christ, one another, and yes, even our enemies.
This is the way.
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Following Easter Sunday, the Church begins a fifty-day period of feasting and celebration known on the Church Calendar as “Eastertide.” We have just come out of the forty-day period leading up to Easter called “Lent,” marked by ashes, lament, and repentance as we reflected on the nature of humanity’s brokenness apart from God.
Eastertide is a time to reflect on Christ's gift of joy, hope, and resurrection! Join us in this new series, From Famine to Feast, exploring the nature of celebration in the Christian life!
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"My kingdom is not of this world." - Jesus In His Sermon On The Mount, Jesus declared, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God." In our current cultural moment, peacemaking is in high demand and there seems to be a supply shortage of it. We, Christ's Church, are meant to exist in this world as representatives of a kingdom that is not of this world. We are ambassadors to a different kind of government where enemies are loved, sins are forgiven, and sacrificial lambs conquer dragons. In a cultural moment defined by an "Us vs. Them" perspective, we look to a Savior who transcends social, ideological, and political boundaries in order to bring about peace on the earth. Join us as we explore what it means for us to be citizens of God's kingdom before we are citizens anywhere else.
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Our world needs hope. Ashes have long been a symbol of everything broken in the lives of human beings. People in the scriptures have covered themselves in ashes to grieve loss and to repent from sin. Resurrection Sunday represents hope found in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. We believe that because of who Jesus is and what He has done, there is a new life available to those who put their trust in Him. We also believe that God is bringing and will one day fully bring Heaven to bear on the Earth, ushering in a new creation free from suffering and sin. On Easter morning, we will celebrate the forgiveness of sin, the defeat of death, all things made new, and hope from the ashes.
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"All are going to the same place; all come from dust, and all return to dust." - Ecclesiastes 3:20
In the beginning, God breathed His Spirit into the dust of the earth to form human beings. Apart from His Spirit, apart from the life of God, we are but dust. When our bodies die, they return to the earth from which they came. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. The good news is that we have been given the gift of repentance, the ability to grieve and turn away from the brokenness of our sin, and are welcomed into the resurrection life of Jesus.
As we lean into the rhythms of fasting, prayer, and spiritual practices this Lenten season, may we remember that we serve a gracious God who enters into the pain and suffering of humanity in order that we might experience the hope of resurrection. May this be a time when we examine our souls, examine our habits, examine our attitudes, and turn back to God.
Join us for this Lenten teaching series as we explore the themes of Lament, Repentance, Grief, Fasting, and Waiting, knowing that God is with us even through the darkest valley.
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We have a dream that one day, all people in our community would be fully embraced, fully transformed in Christ. But the problem is our world is driven by fear, and thus we create cultures of division, isolation, and shame. That is why we exist, to foster a community following Jesus from fear to love.
Join us this fall as we unpack the story God is telling in our midst!
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The Holy Trinity is mysterious and profound. Our God is one God but is also, somehow, three distinct persons. Holy Spirit is one of these three persons.
God as Holy Spirit is promised to us when we respond to Jesus' call to follow Him, and this means that the power and presence of God is available to you and me. God is not far away. God is not disconnected. God is not uninterested. God is with us, closer than our breath, even if it doesn't always feel that way. During this series, we will explore what it means to carry the presence of God with us in our day-to-day lives, who encourages us and empowers us to faithfully show up to our unique corners of Christ's kingdom. Join us for the next four weeks as we celebrate the gift of God's Spirit in our lives.
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As we head into 2024, there are many things we could delve into as we prepare for what will surely be a tumultuous cultural moment. We could tackle geopolitics and the gospel, partisan tribalism and kingdom citizenship, evil and the Justice of God, etc. But there are a million podcasts, YouTube channels, and social media influencers talking and shouting about these things. Although these topics are important, there is something for the Jesus-follower that needs to come first: Prayer.
2023 Teaching Archive
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Advent is all about the arrival of the Messiah, our Savior, Jesus. Jesus is the fulfillment of the law and Old Testament prophecy, but this humble king did not reign over a kingdom on earth. This King is the King of Heaven, and His advent (meaning arrival) marked the ushering in of that kingdom for all of humanity. The Upside Down Kingdom series will continue through the Advent season as we open the scroll of Isaiah to discover how Jesus has fulfilled the hope of a people in exile and how Jesus revealed His kingship that still reigns today.
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Jesus was a different kind of king. He was always breaking the categories of who or what people wanted Him to be. And yet He was exactly what the world needed; He is exactly what our world needs, what our community needs. If we are paying close attention to Jesus, we realize He is always inviting, always challenging, always redeeming. His ways are higher than our ways, His thoughts higher than our thoughts, and therefore His kingdom is like no other. It is completely upside-down when compared to our way of doing things. So as a community following Jesus from fear to love, perhaps we ought to pay attention to what Jesus says about what His kingdom is like and who He is looking for to take part in it. For this we turn to, perhaps, Christ’s most seminal and famous teaching on the Kingdom of Heaven, The Sermon On The Mount. Join us as we unpack this crucial teaching during a crucial moment in history.
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It has been so meaningful to journey with one another through Lent and into Holy Week. All this has been building up to our joyous celebration of Christ's Resurrection! This is a moment in our yearly rhythms to focus on the story of the cross and the empty tomb. Everything concerning our Christian faith hinges on these loving acts of our Savior!
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We have a dream that one day, all people in our community would be fully embraced and fully transformed in Christ. But the problem is our world is driven by fear, so we create cultures of division, isolation, and shame. So, we will take the next four weeks to unpack what it looks like to foster a community that follows Jesus from fear to love.
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What is Church? This can be a really painful subject for many. For some of us, the Church has been a place of hurt. For some of us, the Church has been a place of abuse. In so many ways, it's easy to get discouraged and to feel like the Church has lost its way. But Jesus started the Church, and He has work for us to do!
What does it mean to be a part of the Church? Why does the Church exist? What is the Church supposed to be? What is it supposed to do? If we want to know where we are going, it helps to know where we come from. The same God who has been moving and speaking to His people all throughout the Scriptures is the same God who is with us today! What good news! Join us as we journey through the book of Acts and tell the story of the birth of the Church and how we find ourselves in the middle of this meaningful time of human existence being the Church!
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Life is full of really difficult questions. "Why would God allow this to happen? If God loves me, why would He put me through this? How can I trust God?"
In all four gospel accounts in the New Testament, Jesus asked 307 questions, He was asked 183 questions, yet He only directly answered 8. Jesus was almost 40 times more likely to ask a question than provide a direct answer. It may be difficult to accept, but sometimes it may not be possible to know the answer to some of life's most difficult questions, but we do know that Jesus loves our questions. Sometimes He doesn't give us the answers we want. Rather, He gives us better questions to sit with. In the questioning, we find the acceptance of a God who understands us.
Sometimes we withhold our questions because we are afraid of the answer or afraid that God won't answer, but the Scriptures give us plenty of examples of questions being lifted up to God as worship. Even Jesus Himself, while He hung on the cross, asked the Father a question, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken Me?"
As the Church steps into Lent, we embrace this season of fasting and prayer by bringing everything to God, especially our hardest questions. Join us as we unpack subjects like doubt, lament, grief, and repentance.
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Jesus is risen! And that changes everything! But what does this mean for us? What do we do now?
"Eastertide" or "Eastertime" is the season of the church calendar that occurs every year between Easter Sunday and Pentecost Sunday. This represents Jesus's time on the Earth before He ascended to be with the Father. This season culminates in a crescendo that occurs at Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit was given to His followers and the Church was born! Eastertide is a period marked by celebration, feasting, and rejoicing. During this series, we will reflect on what it means to be a rejoicing people. There are plenty of reasons to lament and grieve in our time, but even in our grief, we continue to rejoice. Jesus defeated death, and that changes everything.
Join us as we enter into this next chapter of the story and learn together what it means to rejoice and live out the joy of the resurrection.
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The Scriptures are a unique gift in that they are not just packed full of doctrine and rules. The Bible is rich with history, real people devoted to a real God and experiencing the breakthrough of Heaven on Earth.
Much of this history is told through narrative and, as is the case with this sermon series, through letters. The Apostle Paul was radically changed when he encountered Jesus, and his call to serve the Church has made a lasting impact, even to the point where his letters to several churches have been preserved in the canon of scripture.
Paul writes his letter to the church in Philippi from prison, yet this letter is rich with the themes of joy, gratitude, grace and peace. Together, we will mine the depths of God’s word in the book of Philippians to discover more about what it means to exist in this increasingly anxious, chaotic, and uncertain world as citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven, as agents of grace and peace.