In this week’s episode of Your Questions Answered, Todd asks Pastor Steve about religion and relationships, and the problems associated with fixating on behavior rather than heart issues. We also discuss some forgiveness and a vision for true connection and closeness.
9/29/2024 | Freedom From the Religious Spirit – Part 3 | Sunday Service
When we replace relationship with rules, we’re not only eating from the wrong tree, but becoming something worse: Pharisees. In this week’s sermon, Pastor Steve talks about the symptoms of a religious spirit, with a goal of not just identification of the religious spirit, but of complete eradication.
YQA: Religion and Relentless Self-Focus
Todd and Pastor Steve talk more about the spirit of religion, how it leads to relentless self-focus and why Pastor Steve says we should “Just Stop It!” (This follows up a sermon Pastor Steve preached at Hillside on 9/22/2024) Here’s the Bob Newhart video Pastor Steve refers to.
9/22/2024 | Freedom From the Religious Spirit – Part 2 | Sunday Service
In Part 2 of “Freedom From the Religious Spirit”, Pastor Steve teaches more on the religious spirit – how it operates and what it does to our relationship with God. Most importantly, Pastor Steve shares the beautiful nature of the Gospel, which is the good news of freedom from the religious spirit, and a restoration of relationship with the Father …
YQA: Adam Eve, and Death
In this week’s episode of Your Questions Answered, Todd asks Pastor Steve about whether Adam and Eve truly understood death. In the discussion that follows, we also talk about the importance of trust in a relationship with God, and how quickly religion can create barriers that don’t exist between us and God.
9/15/2024 | Freedom From The Religious Spirit – Part 1: The Religious Spirit Ruins Everything | Sunday Service
Pastor Steve takes us into the book of Genesis as he starts a series on Freedom From The Religious Spirit. In this message, we learn about the spirit of religion: -It questions God, and it seeks to undermine His words. -It adds more burdens and more commands to what God has said -It makes us work for something we get …
YQA: Making Jesus My Daily Bread
In this week’s episode of Your Questions Answered, Pastor Steve and Todd talk about pot roasts and talk about some of the tough words of Jesus. We also talk about the practice of receiving Jesus each day as our daily bread, and Pastor Steve shares some resources for make it a habit. Resources He Mentions: Morning and Evening by Charles …
9/8/2024 | Daily Bread Renews The Mind | Sunday Service
Pastor Steve shares about the importance of DAILY renewing our mind, and it involves receiving the daily bread – the presence of Jesus!
YQA: Condemnation vs Conviction
In this week’s episode of Your Questions Answered, Todd asks Pastor Steve to talk more about “Bible Bashing” (HINT: Don’t Do It!) and the difference between condemnation and conviction. Pastor Steve also mentions “Love Never Fails” – a teaching series available for FREE on our website: https://hcfmillersburg.churchcenter.com/channels/4069
YQA: Unpunishable in the New Covenant?
In this week’s episode of YQA, Pastor Steve and Todd talk about the wrath of God, being unpunishable in the New Covenant, and the sad story of Ananias and Sapphira. This is a follow-up podcast to 8/18/2024 | There’s Only One Way To Learn Obedience | Sunday Service
