Hill of the Lord Blog

Please be in prayer for our team leaving on the 28th and for the people’s hearts whom they will encounter and share with.

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• Praise the Lord for two who were baptized this past Sunday. Pray for others who have confessed Jesus as Savior but have not taken this step of obedience.

• Community development workers are making progress in several villages. Pray for their work to be a living example of Jesus’ love and for them to take every opportunity to share God’s Word with villagers especially leaders.

Filled under: Blog | by Lewicki | Comments

Greetings to the body of believers joined together in Columbia, South Carolina to honor the Lord Jesus Christ and to bring glory to His name, and greetings to those dispersed throughout the nation and the world serving Him wherever they may be found. I write to you from my cubicle in the Burrowes Building on the Penn State campus in State College, Pennsylvania. I hope you all know—even those of you whom I have not yet met—how much I pray for you, how often you are in my thoughts, and how my love reaches out to you constantly.

I was with you in body until August, and in some ways it seems that more than four months have passed since I left Columbia; but, in other ways, it seems that the time has been far shorter. I have become involved with the Alliance Christian Fellowship, a church-plant of the Christian and Missionary Alliance which has been on-campus at PSU for more than thirty years. The body is larger and, in some ways, more established than HOTL, but it is still striving to improve and grow, to have its members move closer to each other and to the Lord, just as I know you also struggle. Following the Biblical model, I am attending and serving alongside the rest of the body, proving my faith and trustworthiness so that—by next school year, I hope—I may one day minister to the congregation as I have also helped to lead HOTL. In the semester which is now ending, I also took three graduate English classes and taught a freshman-level composition course. I am learning a great deal and being pressed to improve upon my abilities. It has been a productive and personally beneficial semester, I believe.

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Filled under: Blog | by KrisL | Comments (3)

2 Corinthians 5:17-21
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

As I flipped back and forth between the various news channels on the evening of Tuesday November 4th, 2008, I was struck firmly by one moment.

Barack Obama: “…Yes We Can!”
The People: “YES WE CAN!”

As the crowd who gathered in celebration of Barack Obama’s victory, repeated this phrase back to the president elect, it seemed that this massive crowd if only for a moment understood and accepted individual and societal responsibility. I myself could not deny my soul echoing these sentiments as well. My voice, however, did not utter these sentiments, seeing as my parents were laying in the next room asleep, and, sitting in a room all by myself, I felt it would be cheesy and lame to chant this. But, all policies and platforms aside, the rhetoric of this man with an odd name was hopeful yet challenging, naive and wise, & powerful as well as humble. And while people on both sides of the political aisle, both before and after, have been divided and hateful, proving ourselves to be full of ignorance towards what really demands our attentions and passions, I feel in the pit of my stomach that this night is dreadfully important, holding great potential for this man’s rhetoric to be embraced by a peoples united. We have a call greater than merely fixing the economy, than simply leaving Iraq, than only fighting abortion… But then I thought to myself, how can this rhetoric become more than eloquent words? How can a speech become reality? Read more »

Filled under: Blog | by Basler | Comments

Jayson Sherrod asked me to post this information about the USC House of prayer, so here it is.

The USC House of Prayer is a Prayer Ministry for the collegiate community that is led and fueled by the prayer and worship Ministers and Teams of a variety of USC ministries and churches.

It’s two main components are The Furnace, the weekly USC-hop prayer meeting, and The House of Prayer, an open-door public sanctuary of prayer and worship for the collegiate community.

The USC House of Prayer purposes the spiritual (re)unification of the various campus ministries via the vehicle of prayer. More than anything, it’s our desire as a ministry to pursue the heart of the Father in prayer and worship, and see his desire for the unity of believers (John 17:21) and the reality of His Kingdom come to our ‘everyday’ at USC.

For more information, visit our facebook group listed below.

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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=201800543&ref=name#/group.php?gid=26289460014

Filled under: Blog | by PastorAdam | Comments

I spend a lot of time in my house these days. And generally that consists of me sitting at my desk working on school assignments while CNN blares into my bedroom from the living room. I’m not always listening to what they’re talking about, but they can be decent company, of sorts. So I have been all over the recent economic crisis and the associated doom and gloom reports that have accompanied it. It seems like every news report trades alternately between Michigan and Ohio with foreclosure signs and boarded up factories. That is followed by two guys (both I think are good men, but this isn’t a political rant) arguing that he and only he has the answer to what ails us. It’s all so confusing and therefore depressing as to make most of us decide to turn it off and worry about the things we can actually effect. But I have to wonder if ostrich theology is really the best way to handle all this? And is there anything we should take away from all this?

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Please lift up these requests to Lord as soon as you read them…and again,  and again.

From Steve and Jan, serving in South Asia

• At least 40 people have died, 100 injured and 80,000 reportedly have taken shelter due to clashes between our people group and a tribal group in our State. Pray for us to have wisdom on how to respond and for this tragedy to be used for God’s glory.

• The written Bible translation team is currently involved in an intense training to help them move forward and hold them accountable to print a portion early 2009. Pray for unity in the translation team, understanding of the concepts being taught and diligence in the translation process.

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Filled under: Blog | by Lewicki | Comments

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve tried to write this blog. In fact, I’ve started it about three different times with three completely different topics. But the idea of submission keeps coming up in my conversation and seems to be a lesson God is teaching me. When I look to our culture, I think there are very few examples of true healthy submission to authority. Methods of learning teach us to think critically, challenge the authority, ask questions, and find a better way. Our own media models a critical attitude towards the American government. Public schools have issues with discipline I think because of a lack of obedience and submission to parents. We experience aspects of submission with things like traffics rules, taxes, and our employers. I understand that this is not a popular topic and often controversial, but it’s an essential element of our faith in God. Read more »

Filled under: Blog | by JulieM | Comments (3)

I wanted to share with y’all an exciting opportunity that we have to partner with other downtown churches to minister to the needy of our city.  Please join us for “Connect,” a one-day wellness event that hopes to connect Columbia’s homeless and urban poor populations with agencies who are already working to meet their various needs.  Through this cooperative effort we’ll be able to minister to the whole person — the physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional.  It’ll also be a great way to be the Church of Columbia, tangiblying sharing the love of Christ with our neighbors and working to transform the landscape through the power of the Gospel.

The idea is to have a big, fun event…and we’re in charge of games!  So, put on your thinking caps and mark your calendars.  The event is scheduled for Saturday, October 25.  We’ll need lots of volunteers for that day…and we need some volunteers NOW.  There is much to be done to get ready and only a little time to do it in!  Let me know if you’d like to be a part of this endeavor!

Please email me ASAP if you are interested. You can also talk to me at church on Sunday. 

Jessica Sullivan (jessicamsullivan@hotmail.com)

Filled under: Blog | by PastorAdam | Comments

What follows is an attempt to uncover meaning in something that is little understood in our small corner of God’s catholic Church. If you can suffer me a bit of theological musing, I pray that the following discussion will do two things; Read more »

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