Hope Community Church Sermons

What does it look like to walk in the new life we have in the Spirit like Paul talked about in Romans 8? We offer our bodies as living sacrifices to God, choosing to be transformed by him rather than conformed to the world, as we use the gifts he has given us to build up his body and reach the world.

Using the profound metaphor of pruning a tree, Romans 11 helps us understand how God is working for both Jews and Gentiles to bring about His Kingdom.

We continue in our exploration of Paul's writing to the church in Rome, dealing with salvation for both Jews and Gentiles. And we see God's love and His plan for each.

This week we explore the importance of the sometimes difficult Biblical teaching of God's sovereignty over our salvation - and that of Abraham's descendants- focusing on the context of these verses and other passages that help us understand these verses better.

We come together to celebrate our salvation through Jesus' death and resurrection, as Pastor Steve dives deeper into this familiar passage.

The Palm Sunday celebration of Jesus takes center stage this week as we welcome our Lord and Savior with praise.

We explore the amazing extent of God's amazing love for us.

We see our future for those of us who are in Christ, helping us to look past our present troubles and look forward to the day when Jesus returns.

We explore how to live in a way superior to just obeying the law through life lived in the Spirit

We continue to explore the relationship between the law and the gospel. How does our new life in Jesus change how we are accountable to the law?

Pastor Steve leads us to explore the implications of the Law, the consequences of sin to our lives, and the intervention of Jesus' sacrifice for us.

We welcome Kurt Sovine and many friends to celebrate our Accreditation Service for Hope Community Church. And we welcome you who join us online too!

God demonstrated his love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Listen to our message on Romans 5:1-11 to hear about the 6 divine gifts of justification secured for us by the loving sacrifice of our Lord Jesus.

Pastor Steve continues in the book of Romans to explore God's perfect righteousness and the necessity of faith in a Christian's life.

The Roman church had a mixed culture of Jewish and Gentile believers. We see in the second chapter of Romans how important it was for Paul to explain how Judaism relates to the new covenant of Christianity. And for us today, how we are both saved and graced with righteousness by Jesus' work.

Today, Ryan helps us explore the importance of understanding the truth about God's holy judgment - and balancing it with God's amazing love.

We begin the book of Romans with an introduction to its author and its audience. Steve explores how the Gospel is woven all through the opening paragraphs.

Even baby Jesus was not exempt from the difficulties created by the sin of others. In one of the darkest stories of the coming of Emmanuel, we wrestle with the escape to Egypt and the murder of innocent children by an intensely jealous king.

We look at the story of the angel speaking to Joseph in a dream and consider what an act of faith it was for this man to obey God's instruction to him.

We consider the importance of Jesus' family tree and the fact that He descended from King David. How does He fulfill God's promises?

We consider how the apostle Paul could exhort us to rejoice in all circumstances at the very time when he was, once again, in prison.

Daniel 7 leads us into a few chapters containing prophecy given to Daniel through visions. Today we'll explore the vision of the four beasts and of the heavenly thrones where the Ancient of Days is seated.

This familiar story is still worthy of being unpacked to explore the deeper lessons that we can benefit from.

Once again we see God dealing directly with King Nebuchadnezzar through a dream. How will this prideful king respond this time?

We consider the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in a life and death decision. Can they trust God? Can we?

We see clearly displayed in Nebuchadnezzar's dream and its interpretation that God is sovereign over world events. And this knowledge can become a great comfort to us even now.

Today we begin a sermon series from the book of Daniel titled, "Faith Under Fire." In our journey through the Old Testament we enter the period of exile, following Daniel and friends into the enemy world of Babylon. And we explore the importance of maintaining purity in our lives in spite of a culture that devalues it.

During the years of Jeremiah's service, while Israel was being sent into exile, God promised that He would make a New Covenant - replacing the one of law and sacrifice. We explore how much that means to us to this day.

Reflected in the story of Ezekiel's vision of the temple, we see how God calls us away from secret sin, makes our hearts clean and provides a way to victory.

We see the amazingly accurate description of the promised Messiah in the book of Isaiah and explore what that means to us today.

We look at an episode from the life of Elijah's successor, Elisha, to discover how God reveals Himself in power again, this time through a heavenly army.

We look again at the amazing miracles that God did in Elijah's life and wonder that, after seeing these things, this prophet could still be brought to a place where he wanted to give up.

We look at the amazing battle between Elijah and the hundreds of prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel. God proves once again that He is the one true God.

We explore what the story of Job has to add to the conversation when we seek to answer one of life's great questions.

Reading 2 Corinthians 12:1-10, we explore Paul's testimony about suffering and God's purposes through it.

The Bible is not afraid to address life's most difficult questions. Today we explore the journey that King Solomon took in discovering what is meaningless - and what really matters.

We explore the wisdom that God imparted to us through His servant, Solomon, with a wide range of practical advise for life.

We explore the life of David's son, Solomon, as well as the amazing way that God draws near to us and blesses us with His presence as we worship Him.

We explore the Psalms, recognizing that they express a wide range of emotions to God. And we acknowledge that God is worthy of our words and songs of praise.

We see that, though God blessed and used King David, He chose Saul to build the temple. And we note David's reaction to this news.

We explore what it was in the hearts of the Israelites that made them covert a king like the other nations had. And how we can want similar things in our day.

We explore how God wins battles today, and what our appropriate attitudes toward them should be.

We see that God makes the rules but that, through Jesus, the law no longer defines our relationship with God.

The passage shows how God saves by His own power.

In the story of Joseph we see how God works out evil for good

Although God asked Abraham to surrender what seemed impossible, God rewarded the man's faith

God saves the world through Noah

Within the story of the fall we find the answers to why bad things happen and where our hope lies

This Sunday we start a new series through the Old Testament. In the Genesis 1 creation story we see God's incredible character.

How do you recover from failure? As we look at final chapter of the gospel of John, we'll see how we need to run to Jesus, and have the hard conversation, knowing that God's discipline is for our healing and that he still has his purposes for our lives.