Liberty Hill Presbyterian

07/26/2026

💒 A Little Church with a Big Heart

This week we mark a special anniversary. On July 28, 1912, 114 years ago, Liberty Hill Presbyterian Church dedicated the sanctuary we still worship in today.

But our story began even humbler. On January 3, 1890, sixteen men and women, farming families named Lewis, Patton, Gatton, Turner, McKee, Jennings, and Robinson, gathered in the Robinson School House with no building and no endowment, only faith and each other, and organized a church.

They persevered through every hard season, signing a charter in 1910 and building the sanctuary that still stands. In the years since, more than 350 souls have been received onto our rolls, and nearly forty pastors have preached from our pulpit. Our eldest member, Lucille Lewis, has been a member since 1946 and one of the very first women ordained an elder here, back in 1977. 🙏

Today we count 31 on our roll. By the world's arithmetic we're a small church, but that has never told the real story. For 136 years, this congregation has baptized babies, married couples, comforted the grieving, and taught children their first Bible verses. Count not the names on today's roll, but the hundreds of lives touched across thirteen decades, and you'll see what those sixteen farmers built in 1890.

A little church, with a very big heart. ❤️ Still standing, still faithful, still here.

All are welcome to worship with us each Sunday at 9:30. 🕊️

05/31/2026

Neighbors! 🌿 Join us Saturday, June 6 for our Community Road Cleanup. We'll meet at Liberty Hill Presbyterian Church (25 Round Top Rd, Alexandria) at 8 AM and spruce up Liberty Hill Road until 10. Then come back at 4 PM for a cookout — burgers and hot dogs on us! Come for the cleanup, the cookout, or both. All are welcome, so bring the whole family. 🍔

04/04/2026

On this space between day, I can only say it feels more real now than ever before. While this is a day of doubt, despair and disbelief, tomorrow morning - on this side of the gospel - we awake with the knowledge that the Son is risen. Blessings to you.

04/04/2026

Liberty Hill Presbyterian Church invites you to join in celebrating Easter Sunday with worship services, a potluck luncheon, and an Easter Egg hunt for children and adults alike.

04/01/2026

So that…

Philippians 2…
The “kenosis” passage.

Kenosis means “to empty.”

Philippians 2:5-8

5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

6 Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped;
7 but, but being made in human likeness emptied himself;
by taking the very nature of a slave,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!

The next verse starts with the words, “So that…one day…”

That day is not what happens on Maundy Thursday.

Maundy Thursday, sadly, ends in darkness.

“So that…” is a promise of light yet to come.

On this side of Easter, however, we know the rest of the story.

If you don’t, read Philippians 2:8-11; read Isaiah 45, read Revelation 5.

There is a promise. It is both now and not yet.

We are expected to, as our passage starts, “…to have the same mindset as…” Jesus. To empty ourselves. To serve. To love one another as Christ loved us.

In that way and in that way only will be God be glorified in this Holy Week.

If you are willing to continue to read, just read a few more verses (Philippians 2:8-11; Isaiah 45; Revelation 5; and John 17).

Precursor for Easter Sunday.

Maundy Thursday ends in darkness. On Easter Morning the Son is risen.

03/19/2026

03/18/2026

Out Of The Depths I Call You:

'Out of the depths I call to you O Lord: Lord hear my cry. Listen attentively to the sound of my pleading!’ (Ps 129:1-2).

Lent invites us to turn our eyes away from ourselves, our suffering, our loss. We are invited to turn our eyes towards Christ.

We are invited to follow in footsteps that are not our own, decisions we would not make, and lives we would not live.

John 11:21-27 talks about the resurrection of Lazarus. He was raised from the depths. Jesus called him out. Jesus heard the sound of those pleading around him.

Do you believe, in this season, that if you cry out Jesus will listen, hear your cry and raise you up out of your depths?

If so, follow in his steps instead of yours, believe what he says instead of what you say and do what he says to do instead of what you want to do.

He is the way the truth and the life. He’s calling you out of the depths and into new life.

Blessings,
Bo

03/13/2026

In lieu of a devotional, I thought I would share a song. I was going to save it for Good Friday.
Take a listen.

02/28/2026

Grace, faith and repentance.

It’s Lent. We are commanded by Christ to follow Him to the Cross.

Ephesians 2:8-9 says, “It is by grace you have been saved through faith, not by works so that no one can boast…”

When Christ taught his disciples that whoever wanted to be his disciple must “…deny themselves, take up their cross and follow me…” (Mark 8:34), what do you think the 12 disciples were thinking?

Immediately, Jesus turned his face towards Jerusalem. The disciples knew that was a bad idea. Shortly thereafter, Jesus predicted his own death (for the first time).

Put yourselves in the shoes of one of the twelve disciples. Would you have followed Jesus in those last days to the Cross knowing the hostility he would receive?

The disciples knew. They did so with faith. Their feet moved in the rjfht direction. In the midst of Christ’s suffering and death, they needed to repent.

The empty Cross, the promise we receive in this season, however, is clear.

By faith we follow because we deny ourselves. With Christ, in faith, we take up our Cross.

But, by Grace and Grace alone, we are saved.

02/23/2026

Ephesians 2:8, “For by grace you have been saved through faith, not by works so that no one can boast.”

In this Lenten season we are called to follow Christ to the cross, repent and receive His grace.

The following words are not from me. They are words i found written by someone else.

Elijah wanted to die.
David battled depression.
Moses lived with anxiety.
Paul rotted in prison.
Jacob was a deceiver.
Peter had a violent temper.
David committed adultery.
Noah numbed himself with alcohol.
Jonah ran from God.
Paul was a murderer.
Gideon was crippled by insecurity.
Miriam poisoned the camp with gossip.
Sarah tried to rush God’s promise.

And God still chose them.
Still called them.
Still used them.

POINT- Your failure doesn’t disqualify you.
Your refusal to repent does.

Grace isn’t permission to stay broken, it’s power to be transformed.