Hillview Family and Friends!
Children’s Ministry will be with the Ministry leader during worship time starting in the fall. Pray with us in our transition. Sis Debbie.
Youth ministry will meet in the fellowship hall at 9:30 am. Youth Ministry will be meeting every 2nd Sunday of the month at 9:30 am.
Please add pocket change in the “Stones of Truth” jar in the foyer. All monies collected will go to offset cost to the Branson 2025 trip.
October is Pastor Appreciation Month.
It’s Boo Tea Time! KC Heartland Events is hosting three Friday evening events in October. See attached flyer for Information.
Mark your calendars now! Your Branson Committee is working hard to make the 2025 Branson trip the best ever. What days will be? Wednesday, July 23-Saturday, July 26, 2025. We hope to see you there!
Oct 16th Dinner 5:30pm Bible Study 6pm.
Oct 12th – Hillview Church Clean Up 8am- 12pm.
Oct 13 – Lunch-to-go , We are privileged to have Hillview’s Chili cook off winner’s Chili with all the fix ins. Adults $10 and children 12 and under $5. Please contact Sis. Linda Marshal. All proceeds go the Branson 2025 Trip.
Oct 17th Pastor Dexter and Sis Karen’s Whites 25th year of pastoring at Hillview.
Oct 19th Board Management Meeting at 9am.
Oct 20th Baptism Sunday. If anyone wants to be baptized , contact Pastor Dexter White.
Oct 26th Pastor 25 Anniversary celebration Service, 5:00 pm at Hillview. Dinner immediately after service. Please contact Sis La Tanya Dunn at Hillviewchurchofgod@gmail.com
We have been honored and blessed to have a pastor and wife who exemplifies their walk with God through their work and leadership as Pastor of Hillivew Church of God and to our community.
You are cordially invited to join us as we celebrate our wonderful Pastor and his wife in a special Pastor appreciation service to be held on Saturday October 26, 2024, 5:00 pm at Hillview Church of God 701 N 78th Street. Kansas City, Kansas 66112. We will have dinner immediately after service. If you will be attending dinner, please respond by October 21st. You can send your response by email: hillviewchurchofgod@gmail.com or contact LaTanya Dunn by phone (913)299-4406.We encourage you to send cards of encouragement, affirmations and prayer support to our spiritual leader.
Thank you for taking part in this celebration to show our appreciation and honoring.
If you want to volunteer to be on the calling team, please contact LaTanya Dunn.
We will need volunteers to help with cleaning the Sanctuary, Foyer, and vacuuming. Contact LaTanya Dunn hillviewchurchofgod@gmail.com
Happy Birthday and Wedding Anniversary to all family and friends celebrating in the month of October.
Pastor Dexter will be having a 6 week study “Horizontal Jesus” by Tony Evans. If anyone is interested, contact Pastor Dexter White.
Nov 9th Church Clean up, 8am-12pm.
Nov 16th Management Board meeting 9am at Hillview.
November 17 Christmas Craft sale. Plan on picking up your Christmas Gifts. Craft donations are welcomed and all proceeds to Branson “25”.
Offering Envelopes are located on the wall outside of the sound booth.
Church of God News
How teachable are you? If I were to visit some of your past teachers, what kind of student would they say you were? I’ve had a lot of teachers in my life. I can only think of one teacher that left a memorable impression on my life and that was my kindergarten teacher Mrs. Kniskie. I would like to think she saw a future pastor in me and decided to help God by beating the devil out of me at an early age. She really knew how to handle a ruler.
This morning, I want us to look at a special teacher that we all have in common in the person of God. The good news is, no matter how sinful we have been and still are, God still loves us, and God has provided for us a way of salvation.
- God meets us where we are: lost in sin.
- Through grace, God lifts us where we ought to be.
We want the best money can buy when it comes to meeting our needs. I would think we would also want the best teacher we can get when it comes to teaching us how to live.
I don’t want anyone to be confused about who is being addressed today. So, I offer a familiar passage of scripture for your hearing:
Romans 3:23 – For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
We should pattern our lives after Mary the sister of Lazarus.
Luke 10:38-42
38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him.
39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said.
40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”
41 “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things,
42 but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”
How does God teach sinners?
God teaches sinners through the message of the cross: because of our sin we are separated from God. Jesus’ death on the cross made it possible for us to be reconciled with God.
Lesson 1: reconciliation
Ephesians 2:14-16
14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility,
15 by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace,
16 and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.
This reconciliation overrules distinctions like race, ethnicity, sex, or social status.
Lesson 2: Love
Romans 5:8
8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
John 15:9-14
9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.
10 If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
14 You are my friends if you do what I command.
God’s love, manifested through Jesus dying on the cross in our place is the bedrock we build our Christian faith on.
Lesson 3: the dividing of humanity into the saved and the unsaved.
Salvation, the gift of God is offered to all of humanity. You have been given free will to choose salvation or reject it.
Luke 23:39-43
39 One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Christ? Save yourself and us!”
40 But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence?
41 We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”
42 Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
43 Jesus answered him, “I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.”
One thief trusted Christ and was pardoned. One thief rejected Christ and perished. On which side of the cross are you on?
We also have that familiar parable of Jesus, where there is a separation at the judgment.
Matthew 25:31-34, 41
31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory.
32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
What are you, a sheep or a goat?
God teaches us sinners through the message of the cross, He also teaches us through the lives of other Christians.
We the believers, are to shine as lights in the world.
Phil 2:14, 15
14 Do everything without complaining or arguing,
15 so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe
We are living epistles for all to read.
2 Co 3:2, 3
2 You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everybody.
3 You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
Our responsibility as Christians is to be consistent. Hypocrisy should have no part in our lives. People are watching you, souls are at stake. Many have been saved because they saw Christ in others. Will sinners come to Jesus because of you and me? Sometimes it seems like you are not getting positive results from your Christian service. Years later someone will approach you and thank you for how you impacted their life spiritually.
God teaches sinners by circumstances in their own lives.
The Apostle Paul met Christ on the Road to Damascus (Acts 9). He was proud, self-centered, religious, and lost. Meeting Jesus in his crisis brought him to salvation.
The Philippian jailer believed because of an earthquake. He asked that question we all must ask:
Acts 16:30
Topic: The Teacher of Sinners
Text: Psalm 25:4-13
4 Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths.
5 guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.
6 Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old.
7 Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O LORD.
8 Good and upright is the LORD; therefore, he instructs sinners in his ways.
9 He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.
10 All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful for those who keep the demands of his covenant.
11 For the sake of your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, though it is great.
12 Who, then, is the man that fears the LORD? He will instruct him in the way chosen for him.
13 He will spend his days in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land.
Support Hillview’s Greeting Card Ministry – We have anniversary, birthday, and get-well cards on the table by the front entrance for you to send to others to let them know you are thinking of them. A donation of $1.00 will help cover the cost of cards and postage.
Continue to pray for the sick and shut-ins and their caregivers. Prayer is needed for our entire congregation as we are all dealing with spoken and unspoken needs and requests.
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