Are We Being Duped About God?
August 7, 2022
Hello Kingdom Family,
Welcome to today’s message on James 1:5-8. Our message is titled “Are We Being Duped About God?” Everyone has doubts, questions and experiences confusion at times when it comes to the subject of God and faith. Today we peel back the onion on this topic and ask the hard questions that nobody of faith wants to ask. Get ready to be challenged and filled with hope as we learn together.
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Shalom,
Hill-Tran Ministries
- Pastor Harold Long
- Are We Being Duped About God?
- Hebrews 11:1-3
- James 1:5-8
- Christianity
- Dan Kent
- devil
- Doubt
- Doubting Thomas
- Doubts About God
- enemy
- Greg Boyd
- Judaism
- Lack of Faith
- lower power
- Mark Twain
- Polar Express
- principalities and powers
- Questions About Faith
- Santa Claus
- Satan
- Spiritual Warfare
- The Reknew Podcast
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Understanding The Power Of Sin
July 31, 2022
- Pastor Harold Long
- Romans: I'm Not Ashamed of the Gospel
- Ephesians 2:3
- Genesis 2:17
- Genesis 2:21-25
- Genesis 3:6-7
- John 19:34
- John 4:24
- Romans 5:12-21
- Adam
- Adamic Nature
- devil
- Eternal Life
- Faith
- Hell
- principalities and powers
- Repentance
- Salvation
- Satan
- Separation
- Sin Nature
- Spiritual Bankruptcy
- Spiritual Warfare
- The Act of Sin
- The Law
- The Power of Sin
- Thirza Sayer
- Understanding the Power of Sin
- Transformation UMC
Welcome to today’s teaching as we continue in our message series “Romans: I Am Not Shamed of the Gospel.” Our message is “Understanding The Power Of Win.” Today we unpack Romans 5:12-21 and focus our attention on understanding the power of sin. This teaching is imperative for making sense of evil, the world system, polarization, and why humans are so jacked up.
The Land of the Free
July 3, 2022
- Pastor Harold Long
- Independence Day
- John 8:31-51
- 4th of July
- Absolute Truth
- Children of God
- Definition of Freedom
- devil
- Elizabeth Keckley
- God Our Father
- Habits
- Hangups
- How Free Are We?
- How Free Are You?
- Hurts
- Independence Day
- Jesus
- Martin Luther King Jr
- Mary Lincoln
- Postmodernism
- principalities and powers
- Relativism
- Satan
- Sin
- Slavery
- The Land of the Free
- The World System
- Truth
- Victor Frankel
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Welcome to today’s message, “The Land of the Free” today, we celebrate Independence Day 2022 and discover what freedom and truth mean through the lens of Jesus. Our scripture today is John 8:31-51, reminding us that Jesus is the only truth that will lead anyone to freedom over sin and eternal life with God.
Don’t Let The Old Self In
May 22, 2022
- Pastor Harold Long
- Romans: I'm Not Ashamed of the Gospel
- Romans 4:13-25
- Abraham
- Aging
- Aging Gracefully
- Clint Eastwood
- dark side
- devil
- Don't Let The Old Man In
- Four Big Pillars
- Get Up and Go Outside
- Holy Spirit
- Illness
- New Creation
- Old Age
- Old Nature
- Old Self
- principalities and powers
- Reborn
- Sarah
- Satan
- Soul
- Tobey Keith
- Youthfulness
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Welcome to our message series, “Romans: I Am Not Ashamed of the Gospel.” Today’s message is titled “Don’t Let The Old Self In.” Pastor Harold will unpack Romans 4:13-25 and help us better understand how illness, aging, work, doubt, guilt, and shame will cause us to believe we must do something to help ensure our righteousness with God. We are also reminded that our spirit (soul) remains young while our body wears out. We may not feel worthy to serve God and love others as we age; our spirit should remain joyful, grateful, and full of love until we take our last breath and close our eyes for the final time. Understanding this truth helps us not fall into the trap of apathy and the abyss of self-pity.
Overcoming the Power of Sin
March 27, 2022
- Pastor Harold Long
- Romans: I'm Not Ashamed of the Gospel
- Isaiah 53:6
- John 10:10
- Romans 1:18-32
- Romans 2:1-16
- Romans 2:17-3:8
- Romans 3:9-19
- Bozo the Clown
- Delusion
- devil
- Edwin Cooper
- Jesus
- Jesus-Centered
- Overcoming the Power of Sin
- principalities and powers
- Satan
- Sin
- Spiritual Warfare
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Welcome to another year of studying God’s Word with Hill-Tran Ministries. Our new message series is titled “Romans: I Am Not Ashamed of the Gospel?” We are making our way through the Book of Romans. Many theologians and scholars claim that the Book of Romans is the most important in all of scripture. Today’s message is titled “Overcoming the Power of Sin,” the message is focused on Romans 3:9-19. We hope you are challenged and encouraged to grow deeper in your faith because of the Book of Romans.
Practicing Spiritual Principles In All Our Affairs
January 9, 2022
- Pastor Harold Long
- What's God's Take On That?
- Hebrews 1:3
- John 1:26-34
- John 12:49-50
- John 14:12
- John 14:16-17
- John 15:5-8
- John 5:19-23
- Luke 2:39-52
- Mark 9
- Philippians 2:6-7
- Baptism
- devil
- Fasting
- Holy Spirit
- Jesus
- Jesus's Baptism
- John The Baptist
- Keeping Our Channel Clear
- Lay Aside Prayer
- Practicing Spiritual Principles In All Our Affairs
- Prayer
- principalities and powers
- Satan
- Scripture
- Set Aside Prayer
- Singing
- Zach Williams
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Welcome to 2022 and another year of studying God’s Word with Hill-Tran Ministries. Our message series for January 2022 is titled “What’s God’s Take On That?” We randomly rely on the Holy Spirit to lead us on what we teach each week in this message series. This week, we focus on “Practicing Spiritual Principles In All Our Affairs.” Our message today is influenced by the life of Jesus before being baptized and after receiving the Holy Spirit. We hope you enjoy today’s message, and if you are blessed, please bless others by sharing this message.
The Grinch of the Holy Land
December 20, 2020
- Pastor Harold Long
- Christmas Is For Real People
- Matthew 2:13-23
- Adam
- Advent
- Angelic Beings
- Angels
- Celestial Angels
- COVID Christmas
- COVID-19
- Creation
- devil
- Evil
- Herod
- Humankind
- Mary and Joseph
- Satan
- The Gospel of Matthew
- The Grinch
- The Grinch of the Holy Land
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Welcome to today’s message titled “The Grinch of the Holy Land.” Today we continue in our Advent message series “Christmas Is For Real People.” In today’s message, Pastor Harold unpacks Matthew 2:13-23 and the presence of evil in the Christmas story. We hope you enjoy the message. If you are blessed by it, please share it with others.
Kingdom Accountability
September 6, 2020
- Pastor Harold Long
- Summer 2020 Lectionary Series
- Accountability
- Anger
- Bible
- dark side
- devil
- Forgiveness
- Jealousy
- Justified Anger
- Kingdom Accountability
- principalities and powers
- Resentment
- Satan
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Thank you for joining us for today’s message titled “Kingdom Accountability.” In our message today, Pastor Harold unpacks Matthew 18:15-20 and helps us learn and discover what Jesus was talking about in this passage, which is only Jesus speaking. We will understand the importance of reconciliation and forgiveness on both sides of the harm done. We hope today’s message impacts your life and that you share the message with others.
Weed Pulling Angels
July 19, 2020
- Pastor Harold Long
- Summer 2020 Lectionary Series
- Matthew 13:24-43
- devil
- Humankind
- Jesus
- Satan
- Separating the good from the bad
- The Parable of Leaven Bread
- The Parable of the Mustard Seed
- The Parable of the Nut Seed
- The Parable of the Weeds
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Welcome to this week’s message, “Weed Pulling Angels.” We are currently in our summer message series titled “Summer 2020 Lectionary Series.” Today Pastor Harold unpacks Matthew 13:24-43, which includes The Parable of the Weeds, The Parable of the Unleavened Bread, and the Parable of the Weeds. We will discover what these three parables have to teach us about the Kingdom of God, and what we need to learn as kingdom people living in the 21st century.
A Special Kind of Freedom
July 7, 2020
- Pastor Harold Long
- Summer 2020 Lectionary Series
- 1 Samuel
- Galatians
- Matthew
- Matthew 11:16-19; 25-30
- dark side
- devil
- enemy
- Freedom
- glory
- lower power
- power
- prestige
- principalities and powers
- Satan
- Self-contentedness
- Selfishness
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Today’s message for Sunday, July 5, 2020, is titled “A Special Kind of Freedom.” In our message today, Pastor Harold unpacks Matthew 11:16-19; 25-30 and helps us understand the difference between the “world system” versus “The Kingdom of God.” The principalities and powers of this world influence our lives to the point of delusion, where we believe we are in full control of our lives. Human beings tend to reject God because they wish to play God themselves and rule their own lives. This lust and quest to do what we want, how we want, and when we want, has been in existence since “the fall of humankind” in the Garden of Eden. If we are honest with ourselves, when we look back at our lives as individuals, as America and the world, we see where we made decisions based on self, which later put us in a position to be hurt. To become genuinely free can only happen when we put our will in line with God.