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"Mercy Hill" is not a town or a place in South Jersey.
Rather, "Mercy Hill" is a creative way to speak of a place where God meets with people.
In God's story, he frequently meets with people on mountains or hills: Abraham, Moses, Elijah, and even the Apostles.
Preeminently, though, Jesus Himself met with God on the hill where he was hung on a cross for our sins--this is the ultimate "mercy hill."
The irony of this "mercy hill" is that it was a hill of death for Him. In fact, the name of that hill is Golgotha, which means "place of the skull."
His death means mercy for us. His judgment means grace for us. That is the Gospel message.
The challenge for people--sinners, skeptics, and everyone seeking His mercy--is this: unless we, by faith, believe and entrust our lives to Jesus and His perfect life, death, and resurrection, it remains a hill of death (and judgment) to us.
Mercy Hill also presents another challenge. Jesus said, in his famous "Sermon on the Mount"--another symbolic hill in the Gospels--that his followers are to be like lights "on a hill."
One quality of a hilltop light is that it shows the way out of darkness. Our desire as a church family is to be people who, by God's mercy, show others the way out of their darkness into the marvelous light of Jesus.
Last updated on January 11, 2011 by Phil Henry