Week 2 | God is Willing + Able
Dallas Theological Seminary opened its doors in 1924. Shortly thereafter it almost had to close them, for good! The school was out of funds and the creditors were ready to foreclose on the land. The very day that DTS was scheduled to be foreclosed on the founding...
Week 1 | If We Humble Ourselves + Pray
Though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again… | Proverbs 24:16 The first person to invent a wheel was a genius. But he only copied what God had already designed into the universe, for the Lord created things in circles. The stars and planets are round,...
What the Bible Says About Fear and Anxiety
God understands what fear and anxiety does to us, but he has so much more that he wants for us. That’s why he tells us over 100 times in the Bible “do not fear” or “do not be anxious.” Just as God knows what anxiety does to us, we have an enemy who studies our...
Do Not Lose Heart
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on...
Driving Out Fear
Read Mark 6:45-52. Waves sweep dangerously over the bow of their boat as the disciples straining at the oars to keep afloat. Stormy winds rage all around them. Jesus, who stayed ashore to pray on a mountainside, sees their struggle from afar and walks across the...
When the World Turns Upside Down
As we’ve experienced in the past few weeks, life can be wildly unpredictable. It seems that our world turned upside down in a matter of days as the coronavirus spread across the globe. How do we find peace in the midst of such turbulence and uncertainty? Horatio...
A Living Hope
Read Luke 24:13-35 But we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel | Luke 24:21 Spoken by two of Jesus’ disciples as they departed from Jerusalem after Jesus’ crucifixion, these dejected words reveal their hopelessness. Instead of rescuing Israel...
Next Steps for New Believers
At Mission Hills, we exist to help people become like Jesus and join Him on mission. We’ve compiled the following list of recommendations and resources to help launch you into this new life of following Jesus. This isn’t a to-do list, it is just a few places you might...
