Series

Still Life

What do you do when it seems like your life has been “locked down”? What’s still true when life comes to a standstill? Paul should know, since he spent a lot of time unable to go where he wanted. Still, he was able to thrive in his faith and his ministry. In this series we will examine his prison epistles to unlock truths that remind us that no matter what the believer is going through, there is still life!
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Champion

From the beginning of Jesus’ ministry, he is proving himself as our champion. He is winning everywhere we tend to lose. He overcomes temptation in the desert. He isn’t crushed by rejection in his hometown. And he heals everyone in Galilee of both spiritual and physical sickness. These three bouts in Luke 4 will build our faith and confidence in a God who is undefeated. So no matter what it looks like right now, we know what is eternally true.
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Home is Coming

Many would be surprised to learn that the Bible never talked about “going to heaven”. It declares that heaven is coming. God is going to dwell with us, and it changes how we see everything when we know that Home is Coming!
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Rescued

No other gospel can do what the gospel of grace can do. It not only saves us from our sins, but it saves us for a life of freedom and service. In this study of Galatians we are going to be reminded of the gift and the responsibility of being RESCUED!
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Always On

Technology is a gift from God. And while our screens can be wonderful tools, they are terrible masters. In this series, we will talk about life and faith in the digital age.
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Generosity is Genius

Jesus said it is more blessed to give than to receive. Blessed for who? This series explores the blessings that come from living the generous life. Those who trust Jesus and do what he says will learn that his words are genius!
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Christmas Extras

We all love to add some extra decorations at the Christmas season. This series wants to add some extra characters to the Christmas story who can add some needed “extras” to our own faith journey.
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Kingdom Come

When it comes to understanding why Jesus came, we don’t have to put words in his mouth. He made a number of very clear statements about the subject. So this series will explore the reasons behind the greatest mission ever.
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Fix Your Focus

Few verses in scripture speak with more clarity than Micah 6:8 about what God values. In this series we will explore what it means to focus on what God focuses on most. Justice. Mercy. Humility. Repeat!
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Self Portraits

The Holy Spirit can be hard to understand. So when the Spirit inspired the writers of the Bible, He included self-portraits – visual portrayals of the invisible Spirit of God. Understanding these visuals – a dove, water, fire, and others – can provide insight into how God’s Spirit works in and transforms Christians today.
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Epic Grace

We all have memories of our failures, and some of them were epic. The good news is that God’s grace is even more epic. This series will remind us that God is better at forgiving and fixing than we are at failing.
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Why Talk About Race

Everyone has an opinion about race relations, and most are willing toshare it. Why shouldn’t followers of Jesus join the conversation? God’sWord, Jesus’ example, the Spirit’s leading—we have a lot to bring to thetable. This series is intended to help Christians think, live, and speak abetter word when the talk is about race.
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Revision 2019

This is Rick’s annual message focusing on our 2020 Vision. It’s a time to celebrate what God has done and anticipate what He will do.

Next Steps // Taylor

No one stumbles into discipleship or accidentally begins to follow Jesus better. So how do we connect what God began in us with what he’s continuing to do? God’s answer is grace.
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Bring Your One

Every person matters to God—every single 1! In this short series we are going to consider the value of every 1, the truth that any 1 can be saved, and the importance of some 1 sharing their faith so that their 1 meets the One and Only!
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Christmas Time

The best stories are about redemption. The message of Christmas reminds us that every story can end better than it starts. This series uses Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol as a platform to rehear the greatest redemption story of all.
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Unhindered

The last half of the book of Acts reveals the amazing story of how the Jesus’ community became a global movement, and it reveals keys to how it has remained so. There is so much to apply as we explore how we can “proclaim the kingdom of God with all boldness and without hindrance.”
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Encourage: A How To Guide

Encouragement—it is a command, it is a gift, it is a joy, and it is something we can all learn to do better. In this series we will look at some great encouragers in the NT and get some powerful “how to” ideas, because we all need to pour courage into one another.
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When God Shows Up

There are moments when we meet God in a new way. After these moments, we exchange a concept for an encounter. When God shows up, it’s not to show us what He looks like, but to show us what He is like. In the Old Testament, God shows up to young and old, to men and women. Let’s look at these encounters and ask Him to continuing showing up in our lives.
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Rediscovering Joy

Happiness is a chance; joy is a choice. The book of Philippians is full of wisdom regarding how we can learn to rejoice in the Lord regardless of our circumstances. Life is full of potential joy killers, but faith is full of joy fillers. And we get to choose!
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Holy Spirit: Ephesians

The book of Ephesians is full of wisdom about the Holy Spirit’s work, beginning with the Holy Spirit’s role in salvation. Near the end of this same letter, Christians are commanded to “be filled” with the Spirit. This short two part series will examine these passages to find out what they mean for Christians.
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Like It Or Not

Truth doesn’t take polls. Truth doesn’t care how one votes. Truth doesn’t change—like it or not. In this series we will look at how the never-changing gospel can change the way we deal with reality.
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The Depths of Grace

Grace is not just how we start following Jesus; it is how we keep following Jesus. Disciples are always growing in grace, always pursuing a greater experience of God¹s power and goodness. This series will declare that grace is amazing because it is so deep!
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Revision 2018

This is Rick’s annual message focusing on our 2020 Vision. It’s a time to celebrate what God has done and anticipate what He will do.
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Whatever

Culture says “whatever” as a way of meaning nothing matters, but Christians say “whatever” because everything matters. Disciples of Jesus do not divide life into sacred and secular. Following Jesus is a 24/7 commitment, and this series explores what that looks like.
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Christmas Reframed

Everyone recognizes the look of Christmas. What everyone needs to recognize is that Christmas should change how we look at everything. This series will explore some of life’s greatest themes through the lens of the birth of Jesus.
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Courage

Boldness is needed to possess all God is willing to give. This study of Joshua will call individuals and churches to the kind of courage that crosses rivers, faces giants, and claims their full inheritance.
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Pray for Reign

Typically when we pray we ask God for what we want. But when Jesus teaches on prayer, he makes it about what God wants. Prayer isn’t for the promotion of our kingdom; it is for the advancement of the kingdom of God. In this series we will consider how to ask God for the desires of His heart. It’s all about praying for reign!
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At the Table

In Jesus’ day, the table was more than a place to nourish the body. It was a place to nurture relationships and nourish the soul. Throughout the gospel of Luke, we see Jesus eating with all kinds of people, using those moments to connect with the up and comers and the down and out, the outcasts and the in-crown. Anything is possible at the table with Jesus – even a transformed life.
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But What About

The enemy of faith is not doubt; it is unexpressed doubt. The church should be a place where anyone can ask “But what about…?” and face some of faith’s toughest questions with honesty and conviction. That’s what this series will do.
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Next Steps // Rick

No one stumbles into discipleship or accidentally begins to follow Jesus better. NEXT STEPS outlines the priorities and strategies of The Hills Church to help make and grow followers of Jesus. What’s your next step?
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Revision 2017

As a church, we recognize God’s calling to reach beyond ourselves and accomplish great things for His Kingdom according to the model Christ set forth in Acts 1:8: “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Count

It really matters how we determine what really matters. Disciples take seriously the evaluation of priorities. In this series we will let scripture inform our understanding of what really counts.
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Guess Who’s Coming

It was the most important birthday bash ever, and wait until you hear who was on the invitation list! This Christmas series celebrates the news that all are invited to celebrate.
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Unlimited

This series from Acts 9-15 tells the story of Jesus’ first disciples learning that the gospel is for all. It cannot be limited by race, by tradition, or even by persecution. It calls the church in every generation to embrace the unlimited mission of God.
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By Design

It’s OK to talk about sex in the church because God talks about sex a lot in the Bible. This series unapologetically examines the topic of sexuality through the
lens of the Bible.
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It’s Like This

When Jesus told stories or painted word pictures, he’d often start with, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like…” This was His way of using everyday experiences to unveil eternal realities – fields and sheep and vineyards helped reveal ‘things hidden since the creation of the world.’ So if we want see God’s Kingdom the way Jesus did, we need to listen close when Jesus says, “It’s like this…”
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Add Verbs

In the Bible, “Christian” is a noun, and nouns need verbs. To be authentically Christian you must ADD VERBS to your faith. Let’s search for verbs to add to our faith, starting in the book of James.
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Life Hacks

A life hack is a clever way to solve everyday problems. The reality is that disciples today need to think creatively when considering how to navigate upstream in a downstream world. This lesson focuses on some innovative ways to live out our faith in a modern-day Babylon, taken from a genius life-hacker named Daniel.
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Even That One

Are you over-looking someone in your life that needs to hear what Jesus’ story means for them? Be bold. Let’s change the world one story at a time.
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Revision 2016

The 2020 Vision was delivered in February 2005 by Rick Atchley. The Vision consists of four parts:

• • Jerusalem: Directing our witness to our local community in N.E. Tarrant County.
  • Judea: Directing our witness to the DFW Metroplex and beyond to cultures much like our own.
  • Samaria: Directing our witness to multi-cultural communities in Tarrant Count and beyond.
  • Ends of the Earth: Directing our witness to other nations around the world.

Over Christmas

Many want the Christmas season to just be over. Maybe what they need instead is OverChristmas. Join us in exploring how the message of the birth of Jesus reigns over our lives and changes our perspective on everything.
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Kingdomnomics

Jesus talked about money more than any other subject except the kingdom of God. Disciples are called to reshape their values and realign their priorities to embody the economic principles of another kingdom. We are called to practice kingdomnomics.

The Bible Doesn’t Say That

We all know popular sayings and clichés that fit well on a bumper sticker or refrigerator magnet, and they are given the weight of scripture without actually being scripture. In fact, some of them are not just not in the Bible, but they are actually unbiblical…and that can be dangerous.
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Keep This On Repeat

The Psalms is the only book of the Bible made up completely of songs and prayers. In this month, we’ll learn from the Psalms what spiritual rhythms God wants us to keep on repeat. First off, through prayer can learn how to talk to God – even during the hardest times of our lives.
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Alive and Free

Saved but bound? This seems to be the reality of many Christians. They have been raised to new life in Christ, but are still enslaved to thoughts and habits of their old life. But the gospel isn’t just a message of forgiveness; it’s a message of freedom. Let’s not settle for anything less than Alive and Free!
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Unleashed

The book of Acts is Luke’s account of the rest of the story of Jesus. His Spirit is given, his resurrection is proclaimed, his mission is launched. It is the record of Jesus in his church UNLEASHED, and it is a call to join the story!
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One In A Million

One Mission, One Message

Upside Down Christmas

Everything about Matthew’s account of Jesus’ birth seems upside-down. Maybe, though, what Christmas is really doing is turning things right-side up. This series will explore how Advent reverses the way we look at everything.

Jonah

The book of Jonah is not for those with a small view of God. It is for those with a small view of how expansive God should be with His grace. This study is for those who want to be swallowed by the heart of God.
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The Parting Gift

The primary aim of this series is to encourage people to embrace Jesus’ conviction that the coming of the Holy Spirit (His parting gift to us) is for our good. We should welcome the coming of the Spirit with great expectation, for Jesus is sending Him to help us. These lessons will mainly focus on Jesus’s words in John 14-16.

Who’s Your 1

What impact could you have on the world if you were intentional about sharing the good news of a risen savior who conquered death so we could experience freedom too?

The greatest act of love you can show toward a friend is to help that friend find Jesus. The best way to do that is to share Jesus’ story. Everyone knows someone who needs to know more.

The Point of Impact

It was an encounter, a moment, an unplanned intersection that changed the direction of a life. That’s what happened over and over when people met Jesus. And it still happens. Jesus is eager to meet you wherever you are. But be prepared to be challenged to consider a new direction. Things always change at the point of impact.
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Mist

Life is brief. That reality can be intimidating or liberating. This series explores how to count our days so that each day will count.
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Followship

Jesus never asked anyone to accept him. He invited everyone to follow him. In a day when anything can be “Christian”, the church needs to rediscover what it means to not just like Jesus, but become like Jesus.
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In the Highest

No Christmas song is more powerful, inspiring, or relevant than the one sung by angels the night of Jesus’ birth. This series will explore the reason we should all be lifted up by the greatest birth announcement ever.
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The Most Important Question

Greatness

Perhaps no chapter in scripture contains more great themes than Romans 8. It starts with “no condemnation” and ends with “no separation” and every step in between builds up those in Christ. Join the journey and see why Romans 8 is Greatness!
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Joseph

Have you ever struggled holding on to faith when it feels like your life has been put on hold? Wondered why things go wrong when you’re trying to do right? Welcome to Joseph’s life. He can teach us how to struggle with these questions and choose better instead of bitter.
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Revelation

Revelation promises a blessing to those who read and heed its message. That’s because there can be no greater blessing than to see the Lamb unveiled for all he truly is. So don’t be intimidated, but be excited and receive with anticipation the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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Christmas on the Road

Ever noticed that everyone in the Bethlehem drama spent time on the road? Maybe that’s appropriate, because if the story of Christmas is true, you can’t stay where you are. This study of the birth of Christ just might help you find a new path.
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Greater Than

You can do nothing greater than determining what your greater than is. This series explores God’s claim to be our perfect greater than. It will examine the blessings of knowing God as greater than, and also the problems of living life with a shrunken God.

Seven

So much is written today about what the church needs to do. Why not listen to Jesus on the subject? His words to seven churches are needed by every church…now more than ever!
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The Both and Church

This important study of The Hills Church of Christ’s decision to include instrumental worship in their corporate worship has been extremely popular and helpful. It will bless the head and the heart.