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Hope Church Winston Salem Sermons — 586 episodes
1 Kings 19:1-18 – The Still, Small, and Almighty Voice of God
1 Kings 18:17-40 – Will the Real God Please Stand Up?
1 Kings 17:17-24 – Secure in the Unwalled City
1 Kings 17:1-16 – The God of the Word
1 Kings 16:29-17:1 – Faithfulness in an Age of Apostasy
Luke 14:12-24 – Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
Luke 19:1-10 – The Welcome of God
Matthew 5:13-16 – Engaging the Persecuting World for Good
Matthew 5:1-12 – Turning from the Surprise to the Blessing of Persecution
Matthew 5:1-9 – The Way Things Ought to Be
Matthew 5:1-8 – Purity of Heart and the Vision It Empowers
Matthew 5:1-7 – Mercy in a Merciless World
Matthew 5:1-6 – Blessed Dependence
Matthew 5:1-5 – Meekness in a World of Self-Concern
Matthew 5:1-4 – Mourning a World That Doesn’t Work the Way It Should
Matthew 5:1-3 – Blessed are Those at the Bottom
Matthew 5:1-12 – The Blessed Life of the Unconventional Kingdom
Matthew 4:17, 23-25; 5:1-3 – The Good News of Christ and His Kingdom
Colossians 1:28-2:10 – Renewing Our Equipping as Disciples
Luke 10:1-21 – Salvation Belongs to the Lord: Renewing our Engagement with the World
Renewing the Embrace – Luke 15:11-24
Renewing Stewardship of the Good News of Christ – Acts 20: 17-25, 32-35
What Do We Do with Jesus? – John 20:30-31
God’s Trustworthy Word – John 21:20-25
Grace for Those Who’ve Blown It – John 21:1-19
The Risen Lord Jesus, Worthy of Our Belief – John 20:24-29
Jesus, Lord at Thy Death – John 18:1-12
So that the World May Know – John 17:20-26
When God Prays for You – John 17:1-19
Living the Little While of Discipleship – John 16:16-33
The Helper We Need for All We Struggle to Bear – John 16:1-15
Love in a Hating World – John 15:18-27
Connection in a Disconnecting World – John 15:1-17
The Gift that Keeps on Giving – John 14:15-31
Trust in an Age of Anxiety – John 14:1-14
The Love of Jesus – John 13:18-38
Loved People Love People – John 13:1-17
God as He Gathers – Ephesians 1:3-14
The Shepherd King – Matthew 2:1-6
Til He Comes Again: The Wonder of His Coming Again
Til He Comes Again: The Timing of His Coming Again
Til He Comes Again: The Manner of His Coming Again
Til He Comes Again: The Fact of His Coming Again
John 11:38-57 – That You May Believe: The Furious Longing of God
John 11:1-16 – That You May Believe: Journey Through Disappointments
John 11:1-16 – That You May Believe: When God Delays
John 10:30-42 – Blasphemer or Beloved?
John 10:22-30 – Belief: Holding onto the Hands of God Holding You
John 10:11-21 – That You May Believe: The Shepherd – The Good One!
John 10:1-10 – That You May Believe: Living Your Best Life
John 9:13-41 – That You May Believe: Are We Also Blind?
John 9:1-12 – That You May Believe: Seeing and Knowing
John 8:48-59 – That You May Believe: Who Do You Make Jesus Out to Be?
John 8:31-47 – That You May Believe: Assurance
John 8:12-30 – That You May Believe: The Light of Life
John 7:40-52 – That You May Believe: No One Like Him!
John 7:25-39 – That You May Believe: Rivers of Living Water
John 7:1-24 – That You May Believe: Understanding the Misunderstood Jesus
Philippians 2:12-13; Acts 2:41-47; Acts 4:31-37 – The Means of Change
John 14:1, 15-17, 25-26; 2 Corinthians 3:17-18; Galatians 5:16, 22-25 – The Agent of Change
Colossians 3:1-14 – The Foundation of Change
Matthew 13:44-46 – Treasure Stories
1 Timothy 6:6-10, 17-19 – Stewards of the Living God: Taking Hold of True Life
2 Corinthians 8:1-9; 9:5-15 – Stewards of the Living God: Mission
Leviticus 27:30; Malachi 3:6-10; Matthew 23:23 – Stewards of the Living God: Practice
Matthew 25:14-30 – Stewards of the Living God: Identity
John 6:41-70 – To Whom Shall We Go?
John 6:22-40 – Hungry Hearts Finding Fullness
John 6:16-21 – When Trouble Swirls, Take Heart
John 6:1-15 – The Sign and the One Signified
John 5:30-47 – The Case for Christ
John 5:19-29 – The Marvelous, Honorable Son
John 5:1-18 – Do You Want to Be Well?
John 4:43-54 – Taking Jesus at His Word
John 20:1-18 – The Resurrection’s Invitation to Hold Out for More
John 12:1-19 – All In
John 4:1-42 – New Eyes to Perceive What’s Right Before Our Eyes
John 3:22-36 – One-Hit Wonder
John 2:23-3:21 – New Life from Above
John 2:13-22 – Intervention
John 2:1-12 – The Old Has Passed and the New Has Come
Mark 1:14-15, Matthew 6:9-10, 2 Corinthians 4:5 – More of Jesus Christ and His Kingdom
Deuteronomy 24:17-22 – More Engaging the World by the Power of the Spirit
Ephesians 4:11-16 – More Being Equipped as Disciples of the Son
Exodus 33:7-11, Galatians 3:26-4:7 – More Receiving and Thriving in the Embrace of the Father
Ephesians 3:20-21 – Making Room for the God of More
John 1:35-51 – Greater Things
John 1:19-34 – The Voice and the Word: Finding Meaning in this World
John 1:1-18 – The God Who Needs an Introduction
John 20:30-31 – Becoming and Being Believers
Jeremiah 29:11-14 – I Know My Plans for You
Luke 1:68-79 – Love in Exile
Isaiah 65:17-25; John 16:20-22 – Joy in Exile
Micah 5:1-6, John 14:24-27 – Peace in Exile
Isaiah 40:1-5, Hebrews 11:8-16 – Advent: Hope in Exile
Romans 16:17-27 – The Gospel of God: Awareness without Fear and Strength without Arrogance
Romans 16:1-16 – The Gospel of God: Welcomed, Known, and Needed
Romans 15:22-33 – The Gospel of God: Join Me in the Struggle!
Romans 15:14-21 – The Gospel of God: Paul’s Great Ambition in Life
Romans 15:8-13 – The Gospel of God: Hope Abounding!
Romans 15:1-7 – The Gospel of God: The One Harmonious Voice of the Family of God
Romans 14:13-23 – The Gospel of God: Freedom and Its Demands
Romans 14:1-12 – The Gospel of God: A Wider Perspective
Romans 13:8-14 – The Gospel of God: An Invitation to Wake Up
Romans 13:1-7 – The Gospel of God: Living Under Authority in Practice
Romans 13:1-7 – The Gospel of God: Living Under Authority
Romans 12:9-21 – The Gospel of God: The Transforming Power of Genuine Love
Romans 12:3-8 – The Gospel of God: Identity and Relevance
Romans 12:1-2 – The Gospel of God: Presentation Towards Transformation
Psalm 36 – Learning the Love of God
Psalm 75 – Learning to Live Under God’s Rule
Psalm 70 – Learning to Trust When God Delays
Psalm 7 – Learning to Find Refuge in God
Psalm 128 – Learning to Live Your Best Life
Psalm 63 – Learning to Desire God
Psalm 116 – Learning to Long for Freedom
Psalm 32 – Learning to Turn Back to God
Psalm 139 – Learning to Be Known by God
Psalm 19 – Learning to Hear from God
Psalm 150 – Learning to Praise
Renew: True Hope for Real Life
Renew: Engaging the World by the Power of the Spirit
Renew: Equipped as Disciples of the Son
Renew: The Embrace of the Father
The Gospel of God: From Explanation Into Worship
The Gospel of God: Neither Complete Nor Final!
The Gospel of God: The Fountain of Life
The Gospel of God: The Normal Christian Life
The Gospel of God: Not Under or Above but Towards the Law of God
The Gospel of God: Slavery, Freedom, and Destiny
The Gospel of God: Being Who You Are
The Gospel of God: The Reign/Rain of Grace
The Gospel of God: Moving From Theology to Experience
The God We Need for the New Year
Psalm 16
The Promised Savior
The Promised King
The Promised Blessing
The Promised Deliverer
The Gospel of God: Good News Illustrated
The Gospel of God: He Ain’t Heavy
The Gospel of God: A Church with Broken Windows
The Gospel of God: The Refuge of Mercy
The Gospel of God: Who is Judging Who?
The Gospel of God: The Expulsive Power of a New Affection
The Gospel of God: The Great Exchange
The Gospel of God: Wrath and Truth
The Gospel of God: Love is an Open Door
The Gospel of God: The Eager-to-Preach Gospel!
The Gospel of God: There is a Church in Rome!
25th Anniversary Celebration
Becoming the Church Jesus Longs For: Bearing Each Other’s Burdens
Becoming the Church Jesus Longs For: Forbearing with One Another
Week 11 – When You Pray: Saints on the Move
Week 10 – When You Pray: Upside Down Turned Right Side Up
Week 9 – When You Pray: Don’t Lose Heart
Week 7 – When You Pray: Two Dead-ends and One Way to Life
Week 6 – When You Pray: Temptation and Evil
Week 5 – When You Pray: From Forgiven To Forgiving
Week 4 – When You Pray: Daily Bread
Week 3 – When you Pray: First Things First
Week 2 – When You Pray: Art and Skill
Week 1 – When You Pray: Recovering Your True Humanity
Held by His Love
How He Loves Us So
Who Loves You?
Reversing Reversed Roles
Gracious Hands for Grumbling Hearts
Singing Salvation
Learning for a Lifetime
Don’t Turn Away – Look!
Who Is This? The Humble and Exalted Messiah
Promises Made, Promises Kept
Safe
God Wins
Courage, Dear Heart
It’s the Hope that Kills You
Layers of Resistance and God’s Gracious Provision
The Two Questions Everyone Is Asking
The Never-Forgetting, Always Working for Our Good God
Wholeheartedness
Not by Chance
The Secret Master of Ceremonies
Seeing Him Who is Invisible
Middle-class in Spirit
The Threat and Relief of Christmas
The Best of All—God is with Us!
The Deep and Wide Promise Fulfilled
Great David’s Greater Son
A Collision Course: the Expected Messiah and the Received Messiah
Who Is This? The Lord Saves
The Lamb In All His Glory
Heaven: There and Back Again
From Apathy to Zeal
Encouraging Words to Fragile People
The Grace of Smelling Salts
The Grace of Truth and the Truth of Grace
Under the Sword
Memento Mori
Love to the Loveless Shown
Merciful and Mighty
The Unveiling of Jesus Christ
The Recipe for Joy
Life-giving Agreement in a World of Toxic Disagreement
On Earth as it is in Heaven
Is God Dead?
Trading Trash for Treasure
The Joy of Working Out
The Normal Christian Life: Dying and Rising with Jesus
The Christian Life is a Life Together
The Christian Life is a Life
Living in the Journey
The Appearance and Reality of the Gospel’s Advance
How to Pray for an Imperfect Church
Living Grace and Peace
Renewing Mission: The Movement of True Love
Renewing Discipleship: Hearing and Doing the Word
Renewing Discipleship: The Working Word
Stepping In
Not Neglecting Such a Great Savior
Seven Miles with Jesus
The Living from the Dead
The Father’s Hands
The Measure of a King
Lost and Found: the Possible Impossibility
A Litany of Lost Things
The Wide Mercy of the Narrow Door
Dare to Call Him Father
The Many Things and The One Thing
Through the Cross to the Crown
Marvelous Faith, Marvelous Savior
The Soul-and-Body Savior
Jesus’ Invitation to More
The Reckoning of What We Want and What We Have
Not today, Satan, not today!
The Messiah Enters Tension and Expectation
How to Live in Two Houses at the Same Time
The Worthwhile Wait
Glory in the Highest, Good News to the Lowest
A Song for Gospel Amnesiacs
What Mary Knew
A Divine Announcement in Routine Longing
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The King Who is Worthy and the People Whom He Serves
Between the Promise and the Fulfillment
Half Hearts Made Whole
Large and Startling Figures
The Foolishly Weak Strength of God
What about those Girgashites?
The Lord Who Takes Over – Not Sides
More Than a Box
Finding Faith In All the Wrong Places
Navigating the Unknown
God’s Promised People into God’s Promised Land
The God of the Mission
Mission and the Messiness of Life
Following Jesus Into Broken Places
A Centered Life of Faith and Works
Such a Great Cloud of Witnesses
Gospel Gratitude in Everyday Relationships
New Clothes
The Mathematics of Grace
Fullness
Who’s Writing Your Story?
A Love Supreme
Joyful Prayers in Sorrowful Times
God’s ‘Woe’ and Our ‘Whoa!’
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
At the Sound of His Roar
Religion Isn’t Enough
A Song for When There’s Nothing Left
When Winning Doesn’t Take Care of Everything
Our Second-time God
Salvation Belongs to the Lord!
Intervention
No Place to Run
Easter: It’s Kind of a Big Deal
When the Anger of Jesus is Also the Welcome of God
You Were Made for This
Soul and Body
The Disappointing, Disenchanting, and Dearly-loved Bride of Christ
Praying Through Our Fears
The Greatest Gift
Good News About Judgment
The Presence of His Absence
The Cross, the Resurrection, and the Death of Scorekeeping
The Eyes and Face, the Heart and Hands of God
All that I Need, I Have
The Who Behind the What and the How
Proper Confidence
Get a Life! True Year’s Resolutions
The Thing Everyone Needs This Christmas
Waiting for Glory
What Are We Waiting For?: Peace
When the Wrong Seems Oft So Strong
True News for a Fake News Culture
When People Walk Away Sad
The Cross Comes Before the Crown
Mine!
Learning to See
The Antisocial Distance of God
Jesus Enters a Widow’s Sorrow
In His Arms He Gently Bears Us
When Jesus Gets in Your Boat
Come and See the One Seeing You
Citizens of the King in an Election Year
Engage: God’s People in God’s World for Good
When Grace Appears
Belief Made Beautiful
Healthy Doctrine for a Sick World
God’s Stewards for God’s Church
Ordinary Christians for Extraordinary Times
All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy
‘Work’s Work’ and Other Myths
Call the Sabbath a Delight!
O Day of Rest and Gladness!
Redeeming the Time
A Creature in Time
Waiting and Working for Heaven
Renew: The True Hope of Heaven
Shared Experience: Grace for Exiles
Renew: Expressing Christ’s Kingdom
Renew: Christ’s Kingdom
Renewing Good News
Renewing Real Life – Part 2
Renewing Real Life
Perfecting Love
Help My Unbelief
I Thirst
Tears of a King
Weak and Strong
All the Roots Grow Deeper When It’s Dry
Knowing and Doing the Will of God
The Call of God
The Blessing of Seeing God
Singing Salvation
Sovereignty That Demands A Response
Left-Handed Salvation
The God Who Hears, The God Who Saves
The Forward Spiral
Conquering in Jesus’ Name?
Incomplete Resolution
Judges: R-rated Redemption
The Witch at Endor
Come, Thou Unexpected Jesus!
The Reign of the King
Singing in the Darkness
Why Bother?: The Best Is Yet To Come!
Born to Set Us Free
How to Live in the Middle of the Story
Living as the Blood-Bought Church
Knowing the Known God
Even Worshipers of God Need Jesus
Free Grace Alone From the First to the Last
Superstition and the Living God
The Village Church and the Global Gospel
Power for the Powerless
The Church for God’s Mission
The Can-Have, Do-Need Gospel
Open Arms
Grace Changes Everything
Choose Wisdom – Live Wisdom
Choose Wisdom
The Wisdom We Need
The Language of the Heart: Praying Our Guilt
Waking Up to God’s Presence
The Language of the Heart: Praying Our Life Together
The Language of the Heart: Praying our Depression
The Language of the Heart: Praying our Vulnerability
The Language of the Heart: Praying our Anger
The Language of the Heart: Praying our Doubts
The Language of the Heart: Praying our Trouble
The Language of the Heart: Praying our Joy
The Language of the Heart: Praying our Lament
The Heartbeat of Hope: Engage the World by the Power of the Holy Spirit
The Heartbeat of Hope: Equipped as Disciples of the Son
The Heartbeat of Hope: The Embrace of the Father
The Heartbeat of Hope: True Hope for Real Life
The Heartbeat of Hope: The Good News Really Is Good
A Parable About Loving Your Neighbor
Train Wreck Conversion
How Deep the Father’s Love for Us
From Scattered to Welcomed
What Money Can’t Buy
Living and Dying as a Christian
Every Story Whispers His Name
Distraction
Grace Taught My Heart to Fear
Grace Changes Everything (Even Our Bank Accounts)
There is No Other Name
One Beggar Telling Another Beggar Where to Find Bread
How the Spirit Transforms a Crowd into the Church
Making Much of Jesus
The Promised Spirit
Waiting for Power
God’s Kingdom, God’s Way
God’s Church for His Mission
My Feets is Tired, But My Soul is at Rest
The Mothers of Jesus: The Wife of Uriah
The Mothers of Jesus: Rahab the Prostitute
The Mothers of Jesus: Eve
Slow Drift and the Anchor of Grace
Fruit in Keeping With Repentance
Repentance Unto Life
The God of the Word
Fears Relieved
Treasured Possession
Haters
Every Member Ministry
When God’s Good Hand Is Upon You
Hope for Restoration
True Hope for Real Life
How to Battle When the War is Won
Working for God
I Dreamed a Dream
Being a Family by the Power of the Spirit
Marriage by the Power of the Spirit
Wisdom is Not a Fish That You Can Catch
Taste and See That the LORD is Good!
Flourishing in Babylon
Irresistible Holiness
From Many, One – For Flourishing – part 2
From Many, One – For Flourishing
He is Able!
Feeling Full(ness) When You Are Hungry
Hidden in Plain Sight
A Citizen, a Child, and a Sanctuary
God’s Renewed Humanity
Far Away No Longer!
The Grammar of Grace
Knowledge Is Power
Blessed Assurance
Mystery No More
Every Blessing
The Saints in Winston-Salem
When the Risen Lord Calls Your Name
Jesus: Lord at Thy Death
Baptized Into the Name
Jesus: the Way, the Truth, and the Life
Jesus: the Resurrection and the Life
Jesus: the Good and Beautiful Shepherd
Jesus: the Door of the Sheep
Faith Works
Jesus: the Light of the World
Jesus: The Bread of Life
Jesus: The Party-Pooper
Jesus: The Life of the Party
Who are You?
Life Beyond Belief
Grief is Great, but Grace is Greater Still
True Glory
True Life
True Light
True God
Worship is a Verb
Blessed and Sent by God’s Good Word
Life Together
Feasting on the Word
The Sign and Seal of God’s Promise
Giving Ourselves to the Ministry of the Word
The Declaration of Dependence
Gracious Offering and Eager Doxology
Growing True
Joining in God’s Song
God’s Call to Worship
Worship: What Do You Love?
Putting Deadly Sin to Death
Lust: the Disordered Love
Gluttony: Consuming that Leads to Emptiness
Getting, Having, and Giving
Righteous Anger or: The Outrage of Death
Unrighteous Anger or: The Outrage of Powerlessness
A Blessing For Longing
Sloth: A Deadly Sin?
Envy: The Joyless Sin
Disorienting Grace: Out of Unrest and Arrogant Pride
The Seven Deadly Sins
The Father’s Way of Working
The Grace for Healing
The Strength from Resting
Union with Christ: the Communion of the Saints
Abiding — the Renewable Energy
Abiding — the Renewable Energy
Union with Christ: Christ in You!
Union with Christ: In Christ!
Union With Christ: Which Side of the Door
He was Satisfied
Preemptive Forgiveness
Music for Suffering and Sadness
Salvation Belongs to the Lord
The Lion who is a Lamb
An Invitation to See the King
A Lukewarm Mess
The Open Door
Waking the Dead
The Burning Heart
Sharpening the Sword
Your Suffering Matters
Returning to Your First Love
Living Today in the Light of That Day
Attending to Jesus in a World of Distractions
An Old Song For A New Year
Passion for Flourishing
Father of Light
The King We Need: Mighty God
The King We Need: Wonderful Counselor
Real Strength, Real Supply
The Longing for Beauty
A Sweet and Permanent Peace
Come Further Up. Come Further In!
The Fellowship of HIS Suffering
He Knew
Shoulder to Shoulder
Worthy of the Gospel
At Peace, Always Troubled
The Prayer for Perspective
The Good Work
Two Ways
True Hope For Real Life
Coveting vs Longing
The Truth Will Set You Free
The Big Gulp
Be Generous
Sexual Healing
The Language of the Heart
Choose Life
Light to the Eyes
Where Does Your Anger Take You?
The Rule and Reign of Honor
Parented by God
Working From Rest
O Day of Rest and Gladness
Salvation by Rest
Give Me A Sabbath Heart
The Power in His Name
I like to think of Jesus like a Ninja …
I am His and He is mine forever
Heart and Soul
I Am Debtor
Words of Life
Everything Sad Comes Untrue
It is Finished
The King Speaks Your Language
The Un-Reluctant God
How Much?
Listen to Your Life
Good Night and Good Morning
The Real Presence
The Cup
False or True
Praise the Lord
The Ransom
Worth the Wait
The Pleasure of God
Praise Changes Things
What’s in a Song?
From Riches to Rags
Light at the End of the Tunnel
Through the Cross to the Crown
Faith Going to the Dogs
A Matter of the Heart
The Whole Truth
The Power to Care
Naked and Afraid
Healing Through Forgiveness
Connecting to the Kingdom
People of Promise
Evangelism Is Not A Dirty Word
A Hope That’s Worth More Than Success
The God of Hope
Grieving with Hope
The Grip of Hope
The Hope of Our Calling
Hope vs. Frustration
Hope vs. Disappointment
Hope Against Hope
Christ In You, The Hope of Glory
Living Hope
Prisoner of Hope
Learning to Weep
More Than Enough
Real Hope for True Life
Full of the Spirit
The Spirit of Holiness
The Spirit of Assurance
Spirit of Truth