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The Hickory Rock Baptist Church Podcast
Weekly sermons from Hickory Rock Baptist Church in Louisburg, North Carolina.
Episodes
264 episodes
Learning To Love To Tell The Story---Acts 25-26
Everyone’s searching for beauty and meaning. Your story, shaped by Jesus, just might be the way they find it.
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Waiting Faithfully--Acts 24:10-27
What if your season of waiting isn’t a detour, but the place where God is doing His deepest work?
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The Cycle Is Broken---Isaiah 53:3-6
Woundedness doesn’t get the last word—Jesus does, and by His wounds, we are being made whole.
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Surviving Spiritual Shell Shock---Acts 23:11-35
When life feels like a nonstop barrage, Acts 23 reminds us that God meets us in the silence—and shapes beauty from the broken pieces.
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Ordinary Tools For Steady Faith---Acts 22:30 - 23:11
What if the Spirit’s greatest work in you isn’t flashy power—but quiet courage, wise words, and the comfort to keep going?
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Living A Life Of Recovery---Acts 22:3-29
Paul’s story in Acts 22 shows us that the Spirit empowers us to face our past, love difficult people, and grow into spiritual maturity.
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Meeting Dysfunction With Love---Acts 21:27 - 22:2
What if the real reason we stay stuck in dysfunction isn’t just what’s been done to us, but what we trust to save us?
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Family Drama---Acts 21:17-26
What if the emotional baggage you carry isn’t just weighing you down, but is keeping you from the healing Jesus is ready to give?
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Living and Praying in the Middle Voice---Acts 21:1-17
What if prayer isn’t about control or resignation—but a sacred invitation to join God’s unfolding story? In this week's sermon, we explore Paul’s walk of faith in Acts 21 and learn to live and pray in the ‘middle voice.’
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A Cruciform Legacy---Acts 20:17-38
A meaningful legacy isn’t built on success—it’s shaped by sacrificial love, humble service, and a life lived in the shadow of the cross.
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Living Faithfully In A World Of Outrage---Acts 19:20-20:1
When the kingdom of God confronts the chaos of the world, will we join the outrage of the crowd—or stay rooted in Christ?
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Restoration Experienced---John 20:24-31
This week, we finish our Easter series with the story of Thomas—not as the doubter, but as the one who shows us how honest faith can lead to a deeper encounter with Jesus.
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Restoration Secured---Luke 24:36-43
Because Jesus is risen, our restoration is secured. This Easter Sunday, we don’t just celebrate the empty tomb—we respond to it with our lives, our love, and our profession of faith.
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Restoration Promised---Zechariah 9:9-12; Matthew 21:1-11
What God promised through Zechariah, Jesus fulfilled on Palm Sunday, and that same promise of restoration still holds for us today—because our King came, is coming again, and never forgets his people.
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Spiritual Spring Cleaning---Acts 19:11-20
In this week's sermon, we explore what it means to fully surrender to Jesus—and discover the freedom and healing that come when we bring everything into the light.
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A Kingdom Civics Lesson---Acts 19:8-10
In Acts 19:8-10, Paul boldly proclaims the kingdom of God, reminding us that our primary identity is in Christ. As citizens of His kingdom, we are called to live out our faith with conviction, love, and purpose. How are we stewarding the respon...
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A Well-Balanced Spiritual Diet---Acts 18:24 - 19:7
In Acts 18-19, we meet believers with spiritual deficiencies that needed to be filled. Could the same be true for us?
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God Works In Ironic Ways---Acts 18:12-23
In this week's sermon, we'll explore several ironic twists in Paul's time in Corinth. These moments remind us that God often works in unexpected and ironic ways—ways that grab our attention and invite us to participate in His greater work. ...
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Seeing Jesus In The Hard Times---Acts 18:1-11
This week in Acts 18, we explore how Jesus meets us in our loneliness, frustration, and weariness, offering His presence when life feels overwhelming. Join us as we discover how to recognize and cling to His hope in the hard times.
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Modeling Incarnational Love---Acts 17:16-34
In this week's sermon, we’ll explore what it means to live with incarnational love—a love that moves beyond comfort to reach out to a searching world. This kind of love challenges us to ask: How can we reflect Jesus in our culture today? Let’s ...
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A Gospel Crash Course---Acts 17:1-15
In this week's sermon, we are reminded that the Gospel shakes the foundations of earthly kingdoms. It threatens the ways of the world but offers unshakable hope to those who surrender to its truth. But what is the Gospel? Can we truly call Jesu...
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How To See The Kingdom---Acts 16:25-40
In this week's sermon, we’ll see how Paul and Silas stayed faithful to Christ and His Kingdom, even through trials. To do the same and witness the Kingdom moving all around us, we must commit to cultivating Christlikeness in our lives.
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Love Me---John 14:15
As we wrap up our "Apprentice's Guide to Following Jesus" series, we arrive at one final, crucial truth: As Jesus’ apprentices, we cannot truly love Him or be transformed by Him without a wholehearted commitment to obeying Him.
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Be My Church---Matthew 16:13-18; 1 Peter 2:9-10
This week, we explore Jesus' call for us to be His church. Together, we'll dive into a deeper understanding of what the church truly is. If we're to follow Jesus as His apprentices and live out His commands, it's essential that we grasp both th...
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