Giving Light Podcast

Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. It has often be difficult for religious mindsets to grasp this concept that One so perfect would dare to fellowship with those entangled in sin. In this message, Pastor Steven Hilton highlights throughout John 8 and other Scriptures the mission of Jesus and how this can relate to our lives today.

Jesus tells us in the book of John that when we believe in Him, our hearts will overflow with rivers of living water. In this message, Pastor Steven Hilton encourages us to stay filled with the Spirit by stirring up the gifts of God within us.

The world promises us hardship in this life and the Bible even guarantees that life as followers of Jesus will not be without trials. However, because of Jesus, we also are offered all that we need to live a rich, abundant life not only in the age to come, but in the here and now. In this message, Pastor Steven Hilton shares the benefits and necessity of praise and thanksgiving to transcend us from a place of defeat into the place of triumph.

In this message, Kevin Ikeda shares a message of the transforming, revolutionizing, powerful, unlimited love of God.

In this message, Reuben Stoltzfus shares the power of saying “YES” to the Lord.

The Holy Spirit is a benevolent giver of good gifts. In today’s message, Loretta Kohr shares on one of the gifts of the Spirit called Words of Knowledge. When the Lord invites us to know a piece of knowledge not from our own natural mind but from His, He is inviting us into an opportunity of bringing Heaven to earth as we partner with Him.

In John chapter 6, Jesus says, “I am the bread of life.” He offers us eternal filling through His own life. In this message, Pastor Steven Hilton continues in this passage pointing out what God has made available to His children as we partake of what He’s done for us and what He wants to do in and through us.

Throughout the Scripture, forgiveness is continually highlighted as an identifying attribute of a follower of Jesus. To act like Christ is to live a lifestyle of forgiveness. In this message, Pastor Katie Stansfield draws attention to this attribute of God’s character as a forgiving God and what this means for those who bear His image.

Working through the core text of John 6:1-15, Pastor Steve highlights a God of abundance who sees us, provides for us, and takes what was lacking and broken and creates a better future.

In this message, Pastor Steve continues walking us through John chapter 5 and explores the mentions of hearing God’s voice that are described in this passage.

In this message, Pastor Steve begins walking us through John chapter 5 highlighting the relationship between the Father and the Son and relating how we too should share this attitude toward the Lord.

In today’s message, Reuben Stoltzfus shares with us on the love that the Father God has toward us.

How we rehearse our story will determine how we live our lives. In this message, Dr. Melodye Hilton talks about the power of our perspective and shares important, actionable steps for us to determine choices that can lead to a better outcome and better results for our lives.

In all ages, God has given testimony of His compassion, mercy, and healing power. In this message, Pastor Steven Hilton walks us through the first part of John chapter 5 to see Jesus heal a paralyzed man and the religious people’s responses to this act. We are also reminded of the power of remembering and rehearsing what God has done for us as a testimony for our own lives and the lives of others.

John’s gospel declares that Jesus is God. He is God with us, for us, and in us. There are no limitations in Him. In this message, Pastor Steven Hilton shares how God will often challenge us in order to help our faith to grow and mature.

Our Christian faith is NOT about blind obedience; our faith in God has so much supporting evidence! In this message, Dr. Melodye Hilton shows that scientific evidence continues to support our purposeful creative human blueprint. By aligning our lives and choices with the beauty of divine design, we can ask powerful questions that lead to powerful, value-generating results.

As we prepare to participate in water baptism, Pastor Steve talks about the importance, value, and benefits of baptism. Following in the footsteps of Jesus, we make this public declaration that we have died to our old lives and have been made new with Christ, our Lord.

Faithfulness is one of the defining attributes of God’s character according to His own description in Exodus 34:6. In this message, Pastor Katie Stansfield shares about what it means to put our faith in a faithful God and how it is not blind trust but founded in a great history of His faithfulness throughout generations.

The Bible is alive and powerful and still impacting lives all around the world every day. This week, we heard from Gideons International, an organization responsible for distributing more than 2 billion Scriptures in more than 95 languages to 200 countries, territories, and possessions across the globe since 1908 and continuing on today.

This week, Pastor Steven Hilton continues in John chapter 04 and shares how when we walk like Jesus in the world, the world wants to know Who we carry.

In this message, Pastor Steven Hilton begins walking us through John chapter 04 and highlights how God embraces and works with even the most outcast from society to spread the message of the Gospel throughout the world.

This week, Pastor Steve continues through John chapter 3, sharing what it means when the gospel says that He must increase, but I must decrease.

Whoever we align with is who we will give power in our lives. In this message, Loretta Kohr shares about letting go of the beliefs and partnerships that are contrary to the truth of God’s Word and coming into alignment with Him so that we can walk in the fullness of life that He has for us.

Throughout the Bible, God describes Himself as compassionate, gracious, slow to anger, and overflowing with steadfast love and faithfulness. In this message, Pastor Katie Stansfield continues in a series exploring these attributes of God as we look deeper at what it means that our God is a compassionate God.

In this message, Pastor Steven Hilton continues walking us through John chapter three sharing about how we are made victorious, equipped, and empowered through Christ.

In this message, Pastor Steven Hilton walks us through John chapter three sharing about the New Birth that we have received through Jesus.

Within this lifetime, we are finite beings in relationship with an infinite creator. Through Jesus, we have been given access to the infinite world, which creates the recipe for Heaven to invade earth through the miraculous. In this message, Dr. Melodye Hilton shares the power of what is possible when the infinite invades our finite world.

As human beings, our experiences with anger can cause us to carry a lot of baggage around the subject. Often as a result, we can accuse God of being a scary angry rage monster in the sky or of God’s anger being His first choice to right the wrongs of a wicked world. In this message, Pastor Katie Stansfield continues to unpack the character of God as He describes it in Exodus 34:6-7 and pointing out what it really looks like that He is a God who describes Himself as “slow to anger.”

We invite you to open your heart to receive from the Holy Spirit through this message from our very own Reuben Stoltzfus entitled, "We Become What We Behold."

In John chapter 2, Jesus cleansed the physical temple. In this message, Pastor Steven Hilton shares about the perpetual cleansing of our own personal temples that we might be clean and refreshed by the presence of the Lord.

Jesus has power over lack in your life. In this message, Pastor Steven Hilton continues walking us through the book of John in chapter two, sharing Jesus’ first public miracle as one of great multiplication and power over lack.

The description in the Bible most used for God includes the characteristic of being overflowing with steadfast love. In this message, Pastor Katie Stansfield shares the great loyalty of our Father God to a committed relational love with His people in both good times and in bad.

In this message, Raymond Crum shares of the creation and fall of mankind that sparks forth the coming of Jesus to seek and save that which was lost. The cross is more than a story of what one man did for love, it symbolizes the restoration of creation, the redemption from the fall, and our raising to life again through His sacrifice.

When Jesus calls us to be disciples, He is not burdening us or weighing us down. His yoke is easy and His burden is light. In this Message, Pastor Steven Hilton shares what it looks like for us to be disciples of Jesus today.

Sometimes we are so focused on what we are going through in the moment that we don’t realize that God has already given us the victory. In this message, Pastor Steven Hilton talks about what the crucifixion has removed from us and what the resurrection restores.

In this message, Pastor Steven Hilton continues in John chapter 01 walking us through the people’s response to Jesus. Will you see Him as a threat or as a promise fulfilled?

We believe in the powerful practice of recalling and recounting what God has done in our lives. Join us today for a special Testimony Sunday where we hear portions of personal testimonies from members of our Giving Light family.

Over and over again, the Bible tells us to “remember”. In this message, Pastor Katie Stansfield talks about how Biblical narrative often points to remembrance as a turning point from a season of hardship to a season of freedom.

The Bible says that as His beloved children and through His great and precious promises, we are partakers of His divine nature. In this message, Pastor Steven Hilton continues in John chapter 01 sharing about how we can walk in His will and ways.

John 1 tells us that in Him was life, and the life was the light of men. In this message, Pastor Steve continues through this powerful chapter and shares about this light and how we, as Believers, are to identify with it.

In this message, Pastor Steven Hilton begins a journey of teaching through John chapter 01. We also hear a powerful testimony from two of our church family about a recent encounter with the Divine.

Our faith is more than an institution or a religion, it is a relationship with a Living God. In this message, Pastor Katie Stansfield uses the Biblical language of "lamps" to highlight the importance of fueling our personal relationship with God.

The Bible tells us that the thief lurks about to steal from us in every way he can. In this message, Pastor Steven Hilton teaches us how the enemy comes to steal our understanding of our identity to prevent us from knowing who we are and living in our authority as sons and daughters of God.

The Apostle Paul wrote that the Word of God is useful to teach us what is true and to help us realize what is wrong in our lives. In this message from Pastor Steven Hilton, we stay on this theme of praying God’s Word for both guidance and direction.

When we don't know and believe the best of what God has for us, we can settle for inferior ways of living. In this message, Pastor Katie Stansfield highlights how God's heart is for us to know that we are loved and accepted into family and the great lengths He will go to, to help us know this truth.

Our faith and confidence is built in our journey with the Lord through prayer, feeding on His Word, and remembering His goodness through our lives. In this message, Pastor Steven Hilton highlights more of the benefits that come when we pray the Word of God.

The Father wants us to know and remind ourselves of His character and of His promises towards us and others. In this message, Pastor Steven Hilton highlights several of the benefits that come when we pray the Word of God.

Are you spending your emotional energies remembering the past disappointments? In this message, Pastor Steven Hilton reminds us that it is a good time to remember all that the Lord has done for us and to rejoice in the victory we have in and through Him.

God designed inside of us a hierarchy of value to first value people for who they are, then for what they do, and then the structures they implement—in that order. In this message, Dr. Melodye Hilton shares ways that we can align with God’s purpose to generate value in others that bring life to us AND to them so that we can walk in gain-gain, life-giving partnerships.

God didn’t reveal Himself all at once. We will be learning throughout eternity the wonders of the Lord. In this message, Pastor Steven Hilton shares about the ever revealing nature of God.