How To Share Your Faith In The World
August 20, 2023
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Today’s message is titled “How To Share Your Faith In The World.” Today we unpack 1 Peter 3:13-22 and are reminded of our primary purpose as disciples. When we look at the decline of the “BIG C” Church, we have to be honest with ourselves and take ownership of the decline. We must quit blaming the devil, Satan, demons, principalities, and powers for everything that doesn’t go our way. Secularists have done a better job of evangelizing than believers have. If the trend continues, by 2070, 50% of the population in the United States will be secular, e.g., atheist, agnostic, and irreligious. If we believe the “good news” is the “best news ever,” we must start acting like it. We must share our faith and Jesus regularly and be invitational to the world’s countless lost souls suffering, wounded, and excluded.
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- Pastor Harold Long
- How To Share Your Faith In The World
- 1 Peter 3:13-22
- Matthew 28:19-20
- Discipleship
- Evangelism
- Good News
- Jesus-Centered
- Jesus-centered Community
- Jesus-Centered Faith
- Jesus-centered life
- Jesus-Centered Living
- Jesus-looking God
- Narrative Spirituality
- Narrative Theology
- Our Primary Purpose
- The Best News Ever
- The Great Commission
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Where Are You, God?
July 16, 2023
- Pastor Harold Long
- Where Are You, God?
- John 8:12-30
- I Am
- Jesus
- Jesus is the Light
- Jesus the Christ
- Jesus-Centered
- Jesus-centered Community
- Jesus-Centered Faith
- Jesus-centered life
- Jesus-Centered Living
- Jesus-looking God
- Jews
Our message today is titled “Where Are You, God?” We unpack John 8:12-36 and what it means to say, “God is everything, or He is nothing.” We learn why Jesus demands that we either crown him King or crucify him.
A Beginner’s Guide to Prayer
February 5, 2023
- Pastor Harold Long
- 40 Days of Prayer
- Luke 11:1-13
- 40 Days of Prayer
- Four Truths About Prayer
- Jesus-Centered
- Jesus-centered Community
- Jesus-Centered Faith
- Jesus-centered life
- Jesus-Centered Living
- Magic
- Prayer
- Spiritual Awakening
- Spiritual Experience
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Our message today is “A Believer’s Guide to Prayer?” This sermon is Part II of VII and should help you embrace the inadequacy of your personal prayer life and realize that we “all” struggle with prayer and understand its purpose.
The Twisted Perception of Rejection
January 15, 2023
- Pastor Harold Long
- Romans: I'm Not Ashamed of the Gospel
- Romans 9:1-5
- Character Defects
- God's Promises
- Israel
- Jesus
- Jesus-Centered
- Jesus-Centered Faith
- Jesus-centered life
- Jesus-Centered Living
- Jews
- Paul
- Rejection
- Shortcomings
- Sin
- Twisted Perception
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Today we return to our message series “Romans: I Am Not Ashamed of the Gospel.” Our Scripture reading is Romans 9:1-5, and today’s message is “The Twisted Perception of Rejection.” We look at how Israel, Jewish Christians, and 21st Christians have had a pattern of assuming God has rejected them, and they, in turn, have rejected God. We review how Jesus was rejected by everyone, including his family, and the promises of God when we desire the Kingdom of God over the world system.
A Jesus-looking God
December 25, 2022
- Pastor Harold Long
- Christmas
- Hebrews 1:1-4
- Advent
- Darkness
- Die to Self
- Hope
- Jesus is the Light
- Jesus-Centered
- Jesus-Centered Faith
- Jesus-centered life
- Jesus-looking God
- Joy
- Joy to the World
- Light
- Light of the World
- light vs dark
- Love
- Morgan Freeman
- New Year 2023
- New Year's Day
- New Year's Resolutions
- Peace
- Personal Inventory
- Surrender
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
On Christmas day of 2022, we lean on the lectionary and the Hebrews 1:1-4 Scripture, teaching us that Jesus is God’s entire manifestation and essence. As Christians, we worship and follow a Jesus-looking God. Thank you for joining us for today’s message.
The Manifestation of the GOAT
December 24, 2022
- Pastor Harold Long
- Christmas Eve
- Isaiah 9:2-7
- Luke 2:1-20
- Albert Pujols
- Babe Ruth
- Identification
- Identity
- Jesus-Centered
- Jesus-centered Community
- Jesus-centered life
- Karch Kiraly
- Mary and Joseph
- Moses
- Stan Musial
- The GOAT
- Tiger Woods
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Today’s message centers on the manifestation of God in the person of Jesus and that He is the GOAT. The GOAT stands for the great of all time. Who are the GOATS in your life?
Jesus-centered Christmas
November 27, 2022
- Pastor Harold Long
- Unforgettable Christmas
- John 1:1-18
- Adoption
- Christmas
- Creation
- Emmanuel
- Foster Children
- Jesus
- Jesus the Christ
- Jesus-Centered
- Jesus-centered Christmas
- Jesus-centered Community
- Jesus-centered life
- Jesus-Centered Living
- Salvation
- Sarah McCracken
- Self-Centeredness
- Selfishness
- Spiritual Adoption
- The Word Became Flesh
- Unforgettable Christmas
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Today we start our Advent Series “Unforgettable Christmas,” Part 1 of IV. We unpack John 1:1-18 and discover what “The Word” means and why Jesus came to earth. We also look at two 21st-century examples to help us better understand what sacrifice looks like and how it demonstrates what it means to keep Christ in CHRISTmas.
Only God Knows When & Be Grateful You Don’t
November 20, 2022
- Pastor Harold Long
- Thanksgiving
- Matthew 24:36-44
- Adam & Eve
- Apocalypse
- atheism
- Humility
- Jack Nicholson
- Jesus-Centered Faith
- Jesus-centered life
- Jesus-Centered Living
- Noah
- Officer and a Gentleman
- Second Coming
- The Rapture
- The Waiting is the Hardest Part
- Tom Petty
- Waiting on the Lord
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Today we unpack Matthew 24:36-44 from the CEB. Pastor Harold Long delivers a message titled “Only God Knows When & Be Grateful You Don’t.” Waiting on God to respond requires great humility and patience. In today’s message, we look honestly at the subject of “waiting” and why humans struggle to wait. We also wrestle with the Second Coming of Christ, The Rapture, and Salvation.
It Just Ain’t So
November 6, 2022
- Pastor Harold Long
- Dear Friend
- Luke 20:27-38
- All Saints Day
- Amends
- Charles Wesley
- COVID-19
- Dear Friend
- Delusion
- Excluded
- Four Big Pillars
- Halloween
- It Just Ain't So
- Jesus-Centered
- Jesus-Centered Faith
- Jesus-centered life
- John Wesley
- Love
- Meditation
- Prayer
- Reconciliation
- Sandy Beach
- Suffering
- Wounded
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Today we unpack Luke 20:27-38 from the CEB. We look at “All Saints Day,” the subject of resurrection from a Jewish and Christian perspective, and lastly, address a famous Mark Twain quote through the late great Sandy Beach, author of “Dear Friend: Meditation and Journal for your Spiritual Journey.”
Walk In The Newness Of Life
September 25, 2022
- Pastor Harold Long
- Romans: I'm Not Ashamed of the Gospel
- John 17:16
- Romans 6:1-12
- Agnostic
- agnosticism
- atheism
- Atheist
- Boy Scouts
- Children
- Girl Scouts
- Grandchildren
- Great Grandchildren
- Irreligious
- Jesus-centered life
- Jesus-Centered Living
- Newness of Life
- Nones
- Scouts
- Secularism
- World System
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Welcome to our message series, “Romans: I Am Not Afraid Of The Gospel.” Today we are in Romans 6:1-12 Part II. Today we look at the newness of life in Christ and how to live it out in a quickly expanding secular world.