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  October 19, 2025
Sermon Archive


Dr. Tom Goodman
Pastor
tom@hillcrest.church

The list below allows you to use the audio control to listen to or download audio files for every sermon at Hillcrest since December 31, 2000.  For most of these sermons, you can also download textual information about the sermon -- e.g., sermon notes, discussion guides, or in some of the oldest sermons, manuscripts.

Displaying archived sermons 1-13 of 1301.

Sermon Date
Sermon Title
Speaker
October 19, 2025 Series: Unlocking Faith: Moving Past Obstacles to Belief
Does God Exist?
Discover 5 proofs for God from the natural world -- evidence we have to stop suppressing in order to come to believe in God.
  — Romans 1:18-20
 
Dr. Tom Goodman

October 12, 2025 Series: Unlocking Faith: Moving Past Obstacles to Belief
Does Life Have a Purpose?
Love is the reason there is something and not nothing. Live out of this truth at the center, and it changes everything.
  — Acts 17:16-34
 
   Audio:
Dr. Tom Goodman

October 5, 2025 Series: Unlocking Faith: Moving Past Obstacles to Belief
Learning to Doubt Your Doubts
Learn why we tend to doubt--and why we need to doubt our doubts!
  — Matthew 11:2-9
 
   Audio:
Dr. Tom Goodman

September 28, 2025 How to Do Your Part in the Harvest
If we understand the way Jesus feels about our community and the prayer Jesus wants us to ask God, we'll commit to praying for and inviting people to the "Unlocking Faith" sermon series.
  — Matthew 9:35-38
 
   Audio:
Dr. Tom Goodman

September 21, 2025 Keep On Keeping On
Discover the goal of the Christian life, the threat to that goal, and the way forward.
  — Colossians 2:1-7
 
   Audio:
Dr. Tom Goodman

September 14, 2025 Resources for Life Together
Discover four resources Jesus provides for our life together as his people.
  — Acts 1:1-12
 
   Audio:
Dr. Tom Goodman

September 7, 2025 Firm Conviction and Careful Compromise
Our church’s success depends upon knowing when firm commitment is called for and knowing when careful compromise is called for.
  — Acts 15:1-16:5
 
   Audio:
Dr. Tom Goodman

August 31, 2025 Series: Leave Your Mark: Lessons from Paul's First Missionary Journey
Inspiration Leads to Perspiration
After you rally people to make a commitment, you have to help people to keep it.
  — Acts 14:21-28
 
   Audio:
Dr. Tom Goodman

August 24, 2025 Series: Leave Your Mark: Lessons from Paul's First Missionary Journey
Impress Them or Impact Them?
When you let the concern about what others think of you become your focus, influence stops.
  — Acts 14:1-20
 
   Audio:
Dr. Tom Goodman

August 17, 2025 Series: Leave Your Mark: Lessons from Paul's First Missionary Journey
What Makes Influencers Want to Resign?
To be a person of influence, you will need to face things that could make you want to give up.
  — Acts 13:13-52
 
   Audio:
Dr. Tom Goodman

August 10, 2025 Series: Leave Your Mark: Lessons from Paul's First Missionary Journey
What's Keeping Your Influence from Breaking Through?
To make an impact on others, you need to identify and then address whatever is keeping your influence from breaking through.
  — Acts 13:1-12
 
   Audio:
Dr. Tom Goodman

August 3, 2025 Do You Need A Comeback?
We all find ourselves in tough situations, sometimes of our own making and sometimes through no fault of our own. Daniel shows us what to do in times like those.
  — Daniel 2
 
   Audio:
Dr. Tom Goodman

July 27, 2025 Playing with House Money
Guest preacher John Messinger explains that, since everything we have is God's, we can take what seems like big risks with what we have because we are playing with house money.
  —  Luke 16:1-9
 
   Audio:
John Messinger

 

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