Hillside Presbyterian Church

Hillside Presbyterian Church Hillside Presbyterian Church - "Rich in history, alive in Christ"
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(summer hours at 9:00)
Worship Service @ 10:45 a.m. (summer hours at 10:00)

09/07/2026

Reading: Psalm 34:8 -- The psalmist extends an invitation to personally experience and discover the goodness of God.

Devotional: There is a difference between knowing about God and having tasted his goodness firsthand. Information about God can be gathered, catalogued, and debated. But an encounter with his grace changes the architecture of a person. Once you have experienced his mercy in a moment of genuine need, once you have seen him provide when provision seemed impossible, once you have felt the weight of forgiveness lift from your shoulders -- you cannot return to indifference. The sermon rightly notes that this kind of love is transforming. It does not leave you where it found you. If your faith has grown cold, return to the memory of when you first tasted his goodness, and let that memory rekindle your hunger.

Reflection: When did you most clearly taste the goodness of God, and how has that experience shaped the way you live now?

Practical Application: Share one specific testimony of God's goodness with another person this week. Spoken testimony reinforces faith in the one speaking and opens doors for the one listening.

09/04/2026

Reading: Matthew 28:18-20; Devotional: The temple was never meant to be a destination. It was a place of encounter that sent people back into the world bearing witness to the name of the Lord. Solomon said plainly that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God. The church carries that same purpose today. You are drawn into worship, healed, forgiven, and renewed, not so that you may remain comfortable inside these walls, but so that you may carry the reality of God's transforming grace into every corner of your ordinary life. The heartbeat of the church is always in and out. You are sent.

The passage in 1 Kings 8 concludes with a call for the heart to be 'wholly true to the Lord' so that all people may know him -- how does the way you live your everyday life either advance or hinder that larger mission of making God known to the world?

Worship begins at 10:00 a.m. Come join us!
09/04/2026

Worship begins at 10:00 a.m. Come join us!

09/03/2026

Reading: Ezekiel 36:26-27; Devotional: We often come to God asking him to rearrange our circumstances. God is frequently more interested in rearranging us. Solomon prayed that God would incline the hearts of his people toward him, not merely that their enemies would be removed or their harvests increased. The deeper work God does is interior. Through Christ and the Holy Spirit dwelling within us, the desires themselves begin to change. What once pulled you away from God begins to lose its grip. What once felt like obligation begins to feel like longing. Ask God today not only to fix what surrounds you but to transform what is within you.

The sermon connects the Old Testament temple to the person of Jesus, who declared himself to be the true temple -- how does understanding Jesus as the place where humanity meets God change the way you think about prayer and access to God?

09/02/2026

Reading: 2 Corinthians 1:19-20; Devotional: Solomon declared before all of Israel that not one word of God's good promise had failed. That declaration stretches across centuries and finds its ultimate confirmation in Jesus Christ, in whom every promise of God is yes. When your circumstances feel like evidence that God has forgotten you, return to the record. He promised presence, and he came. He promised forgiveness, and he bled. He promised resurrection, and the tomb was empty. Your current difficulty does not contradict his faithfulness. It is simply not the last chapter. Trust the God who has never broken a word.

When you look back over your own life or the life of your faith community, where do you see evidence of that faithfulness, and where is it hardest to believe?

09/01/2026

Reading: Matthew 11:28-30; Devotional: Solomon blessed Israel by declaring that God had given his people rest according to every promise he had spoken. That rest was not passivity but trust, the deep settling of a soul that has stopped striving to earn what God freely gives. Jesus extends that same invitation. His yoke is not a burden added to your burden but a burden exchanged. You bring your exhaustion, your striving, your need to prove yourself worthy, and he replaces it with peace grounded in his acceptance of you. Rest is not something you achieve. It is something you receive.

If the church is meant to be the one place where people can drop their masks and be fully honest, what practical barriers still prevent that kind of vulnerability in most congregations, and how might those barriers be removed?

08/31/2026

Reading: 1 Kings 8:38-40; Devotional: The temple was designed to be a place where people could come before God knowing the full affliction of their own hearts. Nothing had to be hidden, no performance had to be maintained. God does not require you to arrive with everything sorted out. He already knows what you carry. The invitation of this passage is simply to stretch out your hands toward him honestly. Where in your life are you still wearing a mask before God? Lay it down. He hears. He knows. He acts.

Solomon's prayer in 1 Kings 8 asks that God hear the prayers of both insiders and foreigners alike -- how does your own understanding of who 'belongs' in church measure up against this vision of universal welcome?

08/28/2026

Reading: Matthew 16:13-18 -- Jesus asks his disciples who they say he is, Peter confesses him as the Christ, and Jesus declares that on this rock the church will be built and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

Devotional: Every standing stone in Scripture points forward to something greater. Jacob's stone at Bethel, the twelve stones in the Jordan, Samuel's Ebenezer -- all of them are monuments to a God who shows up. But none of them compares to the cross of Jesus Christ. That is the ultimate Ebenezer. That is the stone of help raised not by human hands but by God himself, declaring that in our most desperate hour, when we were not crying out but running away, he came. He saved. He conquered. As you close this week of reflection, return to the cross. Let it be the fixed point around which all of your remembrance is ordered. Till now, the Lord has helped us -- and in Christ, he always will.

The sermon suggests that spiritual disciplines such as fixed-hour prayer, fasting, and daily recounting of blessings can serve as practical tools for remembrance -- which of these practices do you find most challenging, and what makes consistent spiritual discipline difficult in your daily life?

We have a busy Sunday morning planned! Come and join in the fun!Come early and enjoy refreshments and fellowship as we ...
08/28/2026

We have a busy Sunday morning planned! Come and join in the fun!
Come early and enjoy refreshments and fellowship as we celebrate the 5th Sunday of the month.
Bring your loose change for our Noisy Offering being donated to Downtown Ministries.
During worship we will celebrate a baptism!

08/27/2026

Reading: 1 Samuel 7:7-13 -- Samuel cries out to God on behalf of Israel, God responds with power against the Philistines, and Samuel sets up a stone called Ebenezer, meaning God has helped us until now.

Devotional: Samuel did not simply let the moment pass. He picked up a stone and gave it a name. He built a physical, visible marker so that the people could not walk by that place without being reminded of what God had done. We live in a culture that moves fast and forgets faster. The practice of raising an Ebenezer is countercultural. It is intentional. It is an act of defiance against the forgetfulness that so easily overtakes us. Consider what your Ebenezer looks like. It may be a journal entry, a photograph, a note on your wall, or a story you tell your children at the dinner table. Mark what God has done. Do not let it be forgotten.

The hymn 'Come Thou Fount' contains the line 'prone to wander, Lord I fear it' -- how honestly do you reckon with your own tendency to wander from God, and what disciplines or relationships help keep you anchored to him?

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2 N High Street
Greenville, PA
16125

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 12pm
Tuesday 1pm - 4pm
Wednesday 8am - 12pm
Thursday 1pm - 4pm
Friday 8am - 12pm
Sunday 9am - 12pm

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+17245884920

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