Hope Baptist Church, Plymouth

Our first Christmas sermon of the year, looking at the topic ‘Where Heaven Meets Earth’, we’re reminded by the nativity story that God is close. That today, you can have an encounter with this awesome majestic God that we sing about, the one who changed the course of Mary’s life and the one who can change the course of your life too

Zoe concluded our series on Thessalonians, preaching this week on 2 Thessalonians 3. Over the past 8 weeks, we’ve seen Paul emphasise points that he’s made before. The message is to endure, to preserve, to stand firm in times of deception. Zoe delved deeper into his final words and asks why he says what he does?

2 Thessalonians - Chapter 2 is where Luke picked up our sermon series. This week focusing on the question ‘How do we stand firm in a world that is full of deception?’

On this Remembrance Sunday, Luke continued our series in Thessalonians, this week moving onto 2 Thessalonians, reading from chapter 1. Luke was looking at perseverance and how key it is in our day to day life, how scripture tells us of the power in perseverance and asked if anyone can relate in terms of their spiritual walk

It was great to welcome Jon Bush to continue our Thessalonians series, this week looking at 1 Thessalonians, chapter 3. Jon suggested that prayer is the classroom of the Christian life, learning of God and if we don’t pray regularly, we’ll remain in the nursery!

Luke reads from 1 Thessalonians, chapter 2 - looking deeper into what Paul and Silas went through during their time in Thessalonica, aiming to preach the gospel but the reality of being pushed out by mobs. Was it a failure or a number of lessons to learn from this time? To bring hope to hopeless situations we may face and how failure doesn’t have to be fatal

This week, Zoe Lane kick starts a new series on 1 Thessalonians, looking at reports of how a community of faith is getting on

Luke concludes our ‘Things Jesus Never Said’ sermon series. Throughout the series, we’ve been focusing on the things Jesus didn’t say in order to see the power and life changing transformation that can happen by the words he did say, looking to dispel some myths and ideologies that can creep in and effect our thinking about God

Reading from John 8:1-11, Luke Mansfield continued the series, looking this week at ‘Things Jesus Never said: it doesn't matter what I do, God just wants me to be happy’

It was great to welcome Zoe Lane back after her summer break last Sunday and Zoe jumped straight back in by continuing the sermon series: ‘Things Jesus Never Said: You don't have to forgive that person’, reading from Matthew 6:9-15 and Matthew 18:21-35

Luke started our latest sermon series named ‘Things Jesus Never Said’ - preaching from Luke 16, looking at how we can make up a ‘soft and easy God’ to suit our own needs but we end up being robbed of the joy and intimacy that is on offer with a relationship with God

It was a jam packed Sunday and Jon Bush kindly led us in this week's instalment of 'Fruit of the Spirit'

Our Summer series; ‘Fruit of the Spirit’ continued on Sunday with Luke reading from Acts 12:1-19

On her last Sunday before her time off over August, Zoe Lane concluded our sermon series; ‘Gifted’ - reading from 1 Corinthians 12: 4-13 and looking at how spiritual gifts function, looking at a ‘health check’ of our gifts and asking ourselves how we could use them to gift the wider church

We had a wonderful time on Sunday, worshipping the Lord and hearing from Luke as he continued with our ‘Gifted’ sermon series. This week, Luke was looking at the gifts we’ve been given - reading from Romans 12:3-8, looking at the gifts God has given each one of us, allowing us to explore how we use those gifts within the church

This Sunday, Luke jumped straight into our new sermon series; ‘Gifted’ - reading from Romans 12:3-8 and looking at spiritual gifts and spiritual growth

Luke Mansfield ends the ‘God’s Big Picture’ sermon series, looking at ‘The Perfected Kingdom’. Reading from Revelation 21:1-8 - concluding the ‘big story' of the bible from start to finish - and how life is all about Jesus

Stephen Beach kindly took the mic this week to bring us ‘The Proclaimed Kingdom’ - reading from 2 Corinthians 3:16-4:12, bringing us a sketch and some colouring in to highlight the age we live in, between the moment Jesus came to live out the Kingdom, died and rose again until the moment He will return

This week, Luke looks at ‘The Present Kingdom’ - reading from John 1:29-34 and how the fulfilment of the promises we’ve already seen are beginning to come to pass; God is a God who always fulfils his promises

Continuing with our ‘God’s Big Picture’ sermon series, Zoe preaches on ‘The Prophesied Kingdom’ and how ‘we’re not there yet’

It was great to have Carl Smethurst (Regional Minister, SWBA) with us on Sunday to continue the “God’s Big Picture’ series. Carl spoke on the topic ‘The Partial Kingdom: Land and King’ - and how God promises, through his people, to bless them so they would bless all nations including the provision of land for his people to live in

Luke continues our ‘God’s Big Picture’ sermon series, looking at the subject; ‘The Partial Kingdom - People and Blessing’  - covering the history of Israel, from Abraham right through to King Solomon

Week 3 of our series; ‘God’s Big Picture’, Zoe took us through Genesis 12:1-9 - this series gives us an overview of the bible and looks at the central, unifying theme; ‘The Kingdom of God’ - this week’s topic: ‘The Promised Kingdom’

Luke continues our ‘God’s Big Picture’ series, reading from Genesis 3; ‘The Perished Kingdom’

Luke Mansfield kicked off our new sermon series; God’s Big Picture’.  Over the next few weeks, we’ll be reading from Genesis through to Revelations and taking a look at how the story of God fits together. This week, we went right back to the start, to Genesis chapter 1, ‘The Pattern of the Kingdom’