Orchard Hill Church

In this series, we are zooming out to get a bird’s eye view of the Story of God contained in the Scriptures. It is so important that we all understand this deep reality we live in. So as we zoom out, we will also zoom in to pay close attention to what we are calling the “chapters” of God’s story - from the beginning of the world to the picture of the world to come. And the theme of this story - which is a real story, a true story - is that God is a God of redemption and restoration -- a God always calling people back to himself, who makes all things new, and who never, ever gives up on His people. God is a God who in Creation made everything that exists, out of love. And even though God gave us everything we need, human beings fell into sin because of our own choices at the Fall. And our relationship with God, with each other, and with God’s good creation was ruptured. But God didn’t give up on us. He called to himself a Chosen People and made of them a great nation. But humans fell into sin again and again a

In this series, we are zooming out to get a bird’s eye view of the Story of God contained in the Scriptures. It is so important that we all understand this deep reality we live in. So as we zoom out, we will also zoom in to pay close attention to what we are calling the “chapters” of God’s story - from the beginning of the world to the picture of the world to come. And the theme of this story - which is a real story, a true story - is that God is a God of redemption and restoration -- a God always calling people back to himself, who makes all things new, and who never, ever gives up on His people. God is a God who in Creation made everything that exists, out of love. And even though God gave us everything we need, human beings fell into sin because of our own choices at the Fall. And our relationship with God, with each other, and with God’s good creation was ruptured. But God didn’t give up on us. He called to himself a Chosen People and made of them a great nation. But humans fell into sin again and again a

In this series, we are zooming out to get a bird’s eye view of the Story of God contained in the Scriptures. It is so important that we all understand this deep reality we live in. So as we zoom out, we will also zoom in to pay close attention to what we are calling the “chapters” of God’s story - from the beginning of the world to the picture of the world to come. And the theme of this story - which is a real story, a true story - is that God is a God of redemption and restoration -- a God always calling people back to himself, who makes all things new, and who never, ever gives up on His people. God is a God who in Creation made everything that exists, out of love. And even though God gave us everything we need, human beings fell into sin because of our own choices at the Fall. And our relationship with God, with each other, and with God’s good creation was ruptured. But God didn’t give up on us. He called to himself a Chosen People and made of them a great nation. But humans fell into sin again and again a

In this series, we are zooming out to get a bird’s eye view of the Story of God contained in the Scriptures. It is so important that we all understand this deep reality we live in. So as we zoom out, we will also zoom in to pay close attention to what we are calling the “chapters” of God’s story - from the beginning of the world to the picture of the world to come. And the theme of this story - which is a real story, a true story - is that God is a God of redemption and restoration -- a God always calling people back to himself, who makes all things new, and who never, ever gives up on His people. God is a God who in Creation made everything that exists, out of love. And even though God gave us everything we need, human beings fell into sin because of our own choices at the Fall. And our relationship with God, with each other, and with God’s good creation was ruptured. But God didn’t give up on us. He called to himself a Chosen People and made of them a great nation. But humans fell into sin again and again a

In this series, we are zooming out to get a bird’s eye view of the Story of God contained in the Scriptures. It is so important that we all understand this deep reality we live in. So as we zoom out, we will also zoom in to pay close attention to what we are calling the “chapters” of God’s story - from the beginning of the world to the picture of the world to come. And the theme of this story - which is a real story, a true story - is that God is a God of redemption and restoration -- a God always calling people back to himself, who makes all things new, and who never, ever gives up on His people. God is a God who in Creation made everything that exists, out of love. And even though God gave us everything we need, human beings fell into sin because of our own choices at the Fall. And our relationship with God, with each other, and with God’s good creation was ruptured. But God didn’t give up on us. He called to himself a Chosen People and made of them a great nation. But humans fell into sin again and again a

In this series, we are zooming out to get a bird’s eye view of the Story of God contained in the Scriptures. It is so important that we all understand this deep reality we live in. So as we zoom out, we will also zoom in to pay close attention to what we are calling the “chapters” of God’s story - from the beginning of the world to the picture of the world to come. And the theme of this story - which is a real story, a true story - is that God is a God of redemption and restoration -- a God always calling people back to himself, who makes all things new, and who never, ever gives up on His people. God is a God who in Creation made everything that exists, out of love. And even though God gave us everything we need, human beings fell into sin because of our own choices at the Fall. And our relationship with God, with each other, and with God’s good creation was ruptured. But God didn’t give up on us. He called to himself a Chosen People and made of them a great nation. But humans fell into sin again and again a

When Jesus came into the 1st century world as a rabbi, the religious leaders had real problems with him. And Jesus, though he loved the religious leaders, had real problems with them. In fact, in the rare times Jesus got angry, it was almost always with this group called the “Pharisees.” They twisted really good things – like the desire to follow God’s ways, live by his laws, and avoid sin – into beliefs and actions that Jesus found offensive, because they hurt people and pushed them away from God. Today, many who regularly attend church often drift into some of the same patterns of the 1st century religious people. Our beliefs and behaviors end up lacking resemblance to Jesus. We don’t mean to … it just happens. Our teaching series - that we are lightheartedly calling Whoops! is about 4 of these beliefs or behaviors that Christians can find themselves sliding toward despite our best intentions. - Join us as we explore what the Pharisees did that made Jesus angry… - Join us as we think about how Jesus lived

When Jesus came into the 1st century world as a rabbi, the religious leaders had real problems with him. And Jesus, though he loved the religious leaders, had real problems with them. In fact, in the rare times Jesus got angry, it was almost always with this group called the “Pharisees.” They twisted really good things – like the desire to follow God’s ways, live by his laws, and avoid sin – into beliefs and actions that Jesus found offensive, because they hurt people and pushed them away from God. Today, many who regularly attend church often drift into some of the same patterns of the 1st century religious people. Our beliefs and behaviors end up lacking resemblance to Jesus. We don’t mean to … it just happens. Our teaching series - that we are lightheartedly calling Whoops! is about 4 of these beliefs or behaviors that Christians can find themselves sliding toward despite our best intentions. - Join us as we explore what the Pharisees did that made Jesus angry… - Join us as we think about how Jesus lived

When Jesus came into the 1st century world as a rabbi, the religious leaders had real problems with him. And Jesus, though he loved the religious leaders, had real problems with them. In fact, in the rare times Jesus got angry, it was almost always with this group called the “Pharisees.” They twisted really good things – like the desire to follow God’s ways, live by his laws, and avoid sin – into beliefs and actions that Jesus found offensive, because they hurt people and pushed them away from God. Today, many who regularly attend church often drift into some of the same patterns of the 1st century religious people. Our beliefs and behaviors end up lacking resemblance to Jesus. We don’t mean to … it just happens. Our teaching series - that we are lightheartedly calling Whoops! is about 4 of these beliefs or behaviors that Christians can find themselves sliding toward despite our best intentions. - Join us as we explore what the Pharisees did that made Jesus angry… - Join us as we think about how Jesus lived

When Jesus came into the 1st century world as a rabbi, the religious leaders had real problems with him. And Jesus, though he loved the religious leaders, had real problems with them. In fact, in the rare times Jesus got angry, it was almost always with this group called the “Pharisees.” They twisted really good things – like the desire to follow God’s ways, live by his laws, and avoid sin – into beliefs and actions that Jesus found offensive, because they hurt people and pushed them away from God. Today, many who regularly attend church often drift into some of the same patterns of the 1st century religious people. Our beliefs and behaviors end up lacking resemblance to Jesus. We don’t mean to … it just happens. Our teaching series - that we are lightheartedly calling Whoops! is about 4 of these beliefs or behaviors that Christians can find themselves sliding toward despite our best intentions. - Join us as we explore what the Pharisees did that made Jesus angry… - Join us as we think about how Jesus

We are never alone in our families. God is faithful to us and to our families in every season. And yet, family life is hard. Family life demands faith. During this series, we will explore what it looks like to experience and have faith in every season of family life, whether married, single, with or without children, or empty-nesters.

We are never alone in our families. God is faithful to us and to our families in every season. And yet, family life is hard. Family life demands faith. During this series, we will explore what it looks like to experience and have faith in every season of family life, whether married, single, with or without children, or empty-nesters.

We are never alone in our families. God is faithful to us and to our families in every season. And yet, family life is hard. Family life demands faith. During this series, we will explore what it looks like to experience and have faith in every season of family life, whether married, single, with or without children, or empty-nesters.

We are never alone in our families. God is faithful to us and to our families in every season. And yet, family life is hard. Family life demands faith. During this series, we will explore what it looks like to experience and have faith in every season of family life, whether married, single, with or without children, or empty-nesters.

Since we kicked off the fall with "Risk-Taking Faith" as our theme for the Gathering, for Advent we are focusing on the "risk" that ordinary human beings took (or failed to take) as they trusted God to play their part in the coming of the Messiah. Mary took a huge risk in trusting God to be the mother of Jesus, the irreligious Magi took a huge risk to follow the star to find the Promised One, Simeon took the risk of waiting his whole life in the temple for the one he knew God would send, and King Herod, rarely explored in teaching, refused to take the risk to believe that God was God and he was not. We will explore each person’s story as we walk through the Scriptural account of Jesus’ coming. We will then challenge ourselves to ponder the risks God might be asking each of us to take during the Advent season - for some, the risk to believe for the first time, for others, the risk to love in hard circumstances, the risk to let Jesus be King over all of our life, the risk to believe God when he asks hard thin

An inspiring and beautiful service with scripture, carols, video, candles, and a message of hope.

Since we kicked off the fall with "Risk-Taking Faith" as our theme for the Gathering, for Advent we are focusing on the "risk" that ordinary human beings took (or failed to take) as they trusted God to play their part in the coming of the Messiah. Mary took a huge risk in trusting God to be the mother of Jesus, the irreligious Magi took a huge risk to follow the star to find the Promised One, Simeon took the risk of waiting his whole life in the temple for the one he knew God would send, and King Herod, rarely explored in teaching, refused to take the risk to believe that God was God and he was not. We will explore each person’s story as we walk through the Scriptural account of Jesus’ coming. We will then challenge ourselves to ponder the risks God might be asking each of us to take during the Advent season - for some, the risk to believe for the first time, for others, the risk to love in hard circumstances, the risk to let Jesus be King over all of our life, the risk to believe God when he asks hard thin

Since we kicked off the fall with "Risk-Taking Faith" as our theme for the Gathering, for Advent we are focusing on the "risk" that ordinary human beings took (or failed to take) as they trusted God to play their part in the coming of the Messiah. Mary took a huge risk in trusting God to be the mother of Jesus, the irreligious Magi took a huge risk to follow the star to find the Promised One, Simeon took the risk of waiting his whole life in the temple for the one he knew God would send, and King Herod, rarely explored in teaching, refused to take the risk to believe that God was God and he was not. We will explore each person’s story as we walk through the Scriptural account of Jesus’ coming. We will then challenge ourselves to ponder the risks God might be asking each of us to take during the Advent season - for some, the risk to believe for the first time, for others, the risk to love in hard circumstances, the risk to let Jesus be King over all of our life, the risk to believe God when he asks hard thin

Since we kicked off the fall with "Risk-Taking Faith" as our theme for the Gathering, for Advent we are focusing on the "risk" that ordinary human beings took (or failed to take) as they trusted God to play their part in the coming of the Messiah. Mary took a huge risk in trusting God to be the mother of Jesus, the irreligious Magi took a huge risk to follow the star to find the Promised One, Simeon took the risk of waiting his whole life in the temple for the one he knew God would send, and King Herod, rarely explored in teaching, refused to take the risk to believe that God was God and he was not. We will explore each person’s story as we walk through the Scriptural account of Jesus’ coming. We will then challenge ourselves to ponder the risks God might be asking each of us to take during the Advent season - for some, the risk to believe for the first time, for others, the risk to love in hard circumstances, the risk to let Jesus be King over all of our life, the risk to believe God when he asks hard thin

Since we kicked off the fall with "Risk-Taking Faith" as our theme for the Gathering, for Advent we are focusing on the "risk" that ordinary human beings took (or failed to take) as they trusted God to play their part in the coming of the Messiah. Mary took a huge risk in trusting God to be the mother of Jesus, the irreligious Magi took a huge risk to follow the star to find the Promised One, Simeon took the risk of waiting his whole life in the temple for the one he knew God would send, and King Herod, rarely explored in teaching, refused to take the risk to believe that God was God and he was not. We will explore each person’s story as we walk through the Scriptural account of Jesus’ coming. We will then challenge ourselves to ponder the risks God might be asking each of us to take during the Advent season - for some, the risk to believe for the first time, for others, the risk to love in hard circumstances, the risk to let Jesus be King over all of our life, the risk to believe God when he asks hard thin