Hope Christian Fellowship

There is nothing that represents the Christmas season more fully or fills it with more joy than the Sunday that our kids sing about Christmas and Jesus!  This day is a highlight of our year and it is exciting to spend this morning together enjoying what God wants to say through these children. And then we’ll spend a few minutes looking at the last ‘must-have’ for Christmas.  It’s an obvious one, a...

Christmas is known as a time of celebration, decoration, and cheer.  But probably more than anything else, it is known as a time of gifts.  Most of us love giving gifts because we so deeply enjoy sharing with those we love and appreciate.  In fact, gift giving is so connected to Christmas because we are following the example of God Himself who GAVE at Christmas His only Son.  But just because you...

Thankfulness and Humility

Each year on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, we set aside the morning to praise and thank the Lord as a church.  This is a service that you don’t want to miss!  We’ll sing together and have an opportunity to share words of thanks.  Come ready to be filled up and blessed as we prepare our hearts for Thanksgiving Day, but also as we are reminded by each other how much we have to be thankful for! The...

Each year on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, we set aside the morning to praise and thank the Lord as a church.  This is a service that you don’t want to miss!  We’ll sing together and have an opportunity to share words of thanks.  Come ready to be filled up and blessed as we prepare our hearts for Thanksgiving Day, but also as we are reminded by each other how much we have to be thankful for! The...

Birthdays are wonderful.  We get to celebrate someone by honoring the day they were born, and many times, by giving gifts.  When a loved one passes away, one of the hardest moments is the first birthday that goes by without them around.  We all want those precious to us to stay with us.  Since Hope is a church made up of people who are dear to us, some of this carries over.  We talked last week ab...

The Hope Calling

Most of us can understand coming up empty when we’re trying something outside where we lack skill, experience, or expertise.  But when we work in our power zone, we expect to see results.  Some of Jesus’ disciples were fishermen, and one of the last stories John records is about these men going fishing but coming up empty. Jesus appears on the shore of the lake and asks them to do something that s...

Love makes everything matter (verses empty) Love is characterized by specific attitudes, actions, and choices.... self-less. Other things (gifts) fade away/end. Some spiritual gifts will remain with us, others will fade as they are no longer needed. Note: some long periods where the microphone could not pick up a question or statement from the congregation have been removed, resulting in several &...

Doubt and Faith

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Jesus Shows Up

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Putting The Pieces Back Together

Frustrated Plans

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Famous people get caught in scandals all the time.  Some of the biggest names of our time find themselves in legal or personal battles because of their own actions. It reminds us that no matter how talented or powerful or popular someone is, we all fail.  Even Christians fail.  And some of the biggest names have failed in spectacular ways.  Peter is the leader of Jesus’ disciples, but he failed sp...

Wednesday Night Bible Study

Have you ever had gum stuck in your hair?  What an awful predicament!  So many different hairs are tangled into the sticky stuff that it is almost pointless to even start trying to pull any of them free.  There are ‘home remedies’ for this kind of situation. But we get stuck other ways.  Spiritually, we can find ourselves stuck in a pattern of failure.  We know what we shouldn’t do, but we keep do...

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In our ‘go-getter’ world, this is our mantra.  We cannot allow for failure.  Somehow, winners find a way to succeed no matter what happens.  But we’re going to take a look at how real life gets in the way of that idea.  For Christians, failure isn’t an option either.  But why?  And what do we do when we fail?

There are some things you should just keep to yourself.  Stuff like your opinions on other people’s preference of music or style.  But some things shouldn’t be kept secret. We do a wedding ceremony in front of witnesses; in fact, it is legally required.  As we look at the account of Jesus’ burial, we’re going to see one of the first “undercover” followers of Jesus.  He shows up to help bury Jesus,...

At Hope, we don’t think of our youth group as a place to just entertain our teens. We are inviting them to take active roles in our church and in serving.  This week, our teens have been serving our community, and today they will serve our church family by taking over our morning service. We love supporting our teens – even in simple ways like filling up the auditorium this Sunday as they lead our...

The Crucifixion

We are bringing one of our favorite weeks of the year to a close today.  Vacation Bible School is a big deal at Hope because kids are a big deal to us.  Jesus said “Let the children come to me, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to ones like this.”  And as our kids put on their closing program, we’re going to open up the Bible and take a look at what it has to say about raising good kids.  There is...