Seasonal Studies
Limited studies with teaching from Orchard Hill staff.
Surely You Are The Crucified King | Lenten Live 2024 (Week 6)
March 20, 2024 • Jonathan Thiede • Isaiah 53, Mark 8:27–36
Join us as we prepare our hearts for the Easter season at Lenten Live! The theme of these teachings is called "Surely You Are" where we will focus each week on a different aspect of who Jesus is and what that means for us who follow him. This week's message from Jonathan Thiede concludes the series and is a climax in some ways. After seeing that Jesus is mighty to save (Week 3), a King who is coming (Week 4), a teacher who is wise (Week 5), we now land at the good news of the gospel. That this mighty, kind, and wise God came to us to die in our place. Jesus is the one prophesied of by Isaiah as the Suffering Servant. What radical good news that one so great would come to suffer in our place! This passage leads us into Good Friday with Mark 8:27-36 where Jesus shares with his disciples his identity, his mission, and his call to his followers. As followers of Jesus, we join him in his suffering, and we share in his glory.
Surely You Are The Wise Teacher | Lenten Live 2024 (Week 5)
March 13, 2024 • Jake Williams • 1 Corinthians 1, Proverbs 2
Join us as we prepare our hearts for the Easter season at Lenten Live! The theme of these teachings is called "Surely You Are" where we will focus each week on a different aspect of who Jesus is and what that means for us who follow him. This week's message from Jake Williams focuses on Jesus as a wise teacher, the only one who can rightly show us how we must live in light of his kingship. This illumines an important dimension of who God is, that He is not only powerful but He is also wise. Proverbs 2 extols the value of wisdom, and 1 Corinthians 1 tells of how the wisdom of God is greater than the wisdom of the world. At the cross we see how God saves us through "foolish" means.
Surely You Are The Coming King | Lenten Live (Week 4)
March 6, 2024 • Emily DeAngelo • 2 Samuel 7, Revelation 5
Join us as we prepare our hearts for the Easter season at Lenten Live! The theme of these teachings is called "Surely You Are" where we will focus each week on a different aspect of who Jesus is and what that means for us who follow him. This week's message from Emily DeAngelo focuses on Jesus as the rightful King of the world. In 2 Samuel 7 God makes a promise to David, that he would always have a descendent on the throne. This is an important moment in salvation history, as it shows us that the promised Messiah will come from the line of David. Jesus as King comes to a climax in Revelation 5 where he is crowned with glory and honor. At the cross, Jesus the King was not just crucified, but he was also crowned.
Surely You Are Our Savior | Lenten Live 2024 (Week 3)
February 28, 2024 • Bryce Vaught • Exodus 14, Galatians 5
Join us as we prepare our hearts for the Easter season at Lenten Live! The theme of these teachings is called "Surely You Are" where we will focus each week on a different aspect of who Jesus is and what that means for us who follow him. This week's message from Bryce Vaught goes from the garden to the Exodus, and from Adam and Eve to Moses. Here the story of the Bible progresses and we see God receive a new title: Savior. God saves His people, not because of anything they have done, but simply because they are His. This message should focus on God as Savior and how at the cross He freed us from our sins.
Surely You Are The Chosen One | Lenten Live 2024 (Week 2)
February 21, 2024 • Russ Brasher • Romans 5, Genesis 3
Join us as we prepare our hearts for the Easter season at Lenten Live! The theme of these teachings is called "Surely You Are" where we will focus each week on a different aspect of who Jesus is and what that means for us who follow him. This week's message from Russ Brasher takes us back to the beginning of the Bible to the Fall of mankind. In Genesis 3 we see curses, but we also see a promise in Genesis 3:15. This promise is one of suffering that leads to eternal glory. The suffering of Christ undoes the curse of Adam and Eve. Paul picks up on this theme in Romans 5.
Surely You Are The Son Of God | Lenten Live 2024 (Week 1)
February 14, 2024 • Dr. Kurt Bjorklund, Dr. Steve Jones • Mark 15:33–41
Join us as we prepare our hearts for the Easter season at Lenten Live! The theme of these teachings is called "Surely You Are" where we will focus each week on a different aspect of who Jesus is and what that means for us who follow him. This week's message from Dr. Kurt Bjorklund gets the series kicked off with the foundational idea that witnessing Jesus' death and resurrection leads to faith and trust in him as Lord. As the centurion looked at Jesus and witnessed the elements of his death, even he had to acknowledge that Jesus' identity was not a criminal, but a King. Dr. Steve Jones also provides an examination of what fasting is and why it's an important spiritual discipline.
Lenten Live 2023: In My Place (Week 7)
April 5, 2023 • Emily DeAngelo
Adult Ministry Director, Emily DeAngelo, continues the Lenten Live series looking at 3 hour time of darkness that Jesus hung on the cross and His last words which is a quote from David in Psalm 22:1. Sorry about the audio! The music stops around the 7:00 minute mark. Key Scripture Matthew 27:45-49 (NIV) - 45 From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land. 46 About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”). 47 When some of those standing there heard this, they said, “He’s calling Elijah.” 48 Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge. He filled it with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink. 49 The rest said, “Now leave him alone. Let’s see if Elijah comes to save him.”
Lenten Live 2023: In My Place (Week 6)
March 29, 2023 • Dan Irvin
Strip District Campus Leader, Dan Irvin, continues the Lenten Live series looking at the crucifixion of Jesus found in Matthew 27 and how this event reminds us of our need for a savior even when we think we are "good enough". Key Scripture Isaiah 53:4-6 (ESV) - "Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all."
Lenten Live 2023: In My Place (Week 5)
March 22, 2023 • Bryce Vaught • Matthew 27:27–31
Adult Ministry Director, Bryce Vaught, continues the Lenten Live series looking at the topics of embarrassment and shame from Matthew 27:27-31 where Jesus is was stripped, spit on, mocked, and abused before being sent to the cross. Key Scripture Matthew 27:27-31 (NIV) - "Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said. They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again. After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him."
Lenten Live 2023: In My Place (Week 4)
March 15, 2023 • David Bowens • Matthew 27:11–26
Worship Leader, David Bowens, continues the Lenten Live series looking at Matthew 27:11-26 and the topic of rejection. He explores some ways that we experience rejection in this world, Jesus' experience of rejection in the Bible, and how through the rejection of Jesus we can be accepted. Key Scripture Matthew 27:24-26 (NIV) - "When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “It is your responsibility!” All the people answered, “His blood is on us and on our children!” Then he released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified."
Lenten Live 2023: In My Place (Week 3)
March 8, 2023 • Chris Jamison • Matthew 26:69–75
Worship Leader, Chris Jamison, continues the Lenten Live series looking at Matthew 26:69-75, the well-known story of Peter's thrice denial of Jesus after His crucifixion. How often in our own life are we the same as Peter? Denying that we know God in front of the people around us or not being willing to speak God's truth when it will cost us something. Key Scripture Matthew 26:74-75 (NIV) - Then he began to call down curses, and he swore to them, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately a rooster crowed. Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken: “Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.
Lenten Live 2023: In My Place (Week 2)
March 1, 2023 • Jonathan Thiede
Adult Ministry Director, Jonathan Thiede, continues the Lenten Live series talking about the theme of "In My Place", what role guilt plays in religion and then finishes looking at Matthew 26:47-56; the story of Judas' betrayal of Jesus. Key Scripture Matthew 26:55-56 (NIV) - In that hour Jesus said to the crowd, “Am I leading a rebellion, that you have come out with swords and clubs to capture me? Every day I sat in the temple courts teaching, and you did not arrest me. But this has all taken place that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted him and fled.
Lenten Live 2023: In My Place (Week 1)
February 22, 2023 • Dr. Kurt Bjorklund • 2 Corinthians 5:21
Senior Pastor, Dr. Kurt Bjorklund, starts a new Lenten series called In My Place. For this Ash Wednesday message, he talks about the importance of celebrating Lent even if you aren't from a Catholic background and then breaks down the different aspects of 2 Corinthians 5:21. Key Scripture 2 Corinthians 5:21 (NIV) - "God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."