Hope Christian Fellowship

Teens are living in a lost world and research shows they are more lost than ever. After a special worship service featuring Hope Youth voices, Pastor Dan will share some of the most common areas today’s teens are struggling with their faith, and how we can be more effective ambassadors for Christ.

We’re going to close our series on Remembering Who We Are by coming back to our namesake: hope. One of the simplest things we can do is hold onto it. But it may also be one of the most challenging. We lose our grip on it for so many reasons. We get discouraged, we get afraid, we get set on a particular outcome. But it is almost a paradox to live as a Christian or to operate as a church without liv...

Communication is the backbone of any relationship. When you’re in elementary school, and you have a crush on that cute classmate, you may not be able to figure out HOW to talk to them. But in any mature relationship, the ability to connect through conversation and understanding is at the very foundation of friendship or family or romance. With the Lord, it may seem more complicated because He’s no...

Communication is the backbone of any relationship. When you’re in elementary school, and you have a crush on that cute classmate, you may not be able to figure out HOW to talk to them. But in any mature relationship, the ability to connect through conversation and understanding is at the very foundation of friendship or family or romance. With the Lord, it may seem more complicated because He’s no...

The problems of the world are easy to see. We walk through life constantly noticing how things are not what they should be. As Christians, we want the world to know Jesus and for good to triumph. But it can feel overwhelming and hopeless. What are we supposed to do about that? The actual answer is probably a lot simpler than it seems. We are to be people who do good. Look around your life and noti...

Social media has definitely generated more outlets for conversation. Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing is probably something to debate, but it highlights an area where Christians should excel. Because we know the King and are confident in His reign over all, we can walk into every interaction with a security and peace that the lost don’t have. We can take instruction from God’s Word on w...

This week at VBS our kids heard that they are God’s priceless treasure! This message is affirming and potentially life changing and it is one we happily tell our children. But at some point as adults we either stop telling each other this or at least we stop believing it is true about us. What we believe is that we have to prove our worth, justify our existence, and chart our own course. Our “trea...

If you’ve ever been around a young couple newly in love, you know how crazy love can make you act. The great thing is that the couple doesn’t realize they are doing anything strange; for them, it is just as natural as breathing. Love makes us do stuff and changes how we act. For believers, that is a great way to practically think about loving others. Jesus told us to love our neighbor and Paul tel...

Wednesday Night Bible Study

Social media has given us a different spin on the idea of ‘sharing’. We can share posts that we like from others, and we can share our lives with others (or at least the parts we want them to see) on our own posts. With all the different platforms, it would seem we’ve become experts at sharing. Most of the time, we enjoy sharing the parts of our lives that bring us joy, excitement, and celebration...

Wednesday Night Bible Study – Revival gone wrong

We’ve probably all sung the words “I have decided to follow Jesus”. In a very real sense, this is basic to what it means to be a Christian. There is virtually no such thing as a Christian who doesn’t follow Jesus. But when was the last time you asked where Jesus is calling for you to follow Him? And when you think about it, following Jesus probably means embracing some things we might not like. Af...

Wednesday Night Bible Study

Mark Twain wrote a story about a prince and a pauper who looked exactly the same. They used this fact to exchange lives for a time. As the story plays out, there are many moments of tension because one person is impersonating another and doesn’t have the history or experience of the person they are pretending to be. The pauper finds the responsibilities of the prince to be overwhelming, even thoug...

Wednesday Night Bible Study – Ezra Nehemiah Revival Gone Wrong

During the pre-flight instructions (that everyone kind of ignores), travelers are told about emergency exits, seatbelts, floatation devices, and oxygen masks. If you ever pay attention, you’ll notice that there’s an emphasis ensuring your well-being first before you attempt to help another. While that can sound selfish, it actually just embraces a simple truth: you cannot help others when you’re i...

Wednesday Night Bible Study

We live in a world fighting against fallout. Humanity (even believers) want to sidestep any negative experiences, even those that are caused by the choices we make. We like to eat unhealthy and then ask doctors to give us medicine to offset the physical problems that come from that pattern. We would love to relax all the time but still get all our work done. There’s no shortage of opportunity to d...

Wednesday Night Bible Study

Prayer is a way that we make an appeal to the Lord. Does He hear us? And how would we know? Maybe we use our experience in making appeals to other people as a guide to what will happen when we ask God for something we desperately need. This part of the story shows that assuming people respond to appeals like the Lord responds would be a mistake. Moses asks Israel to reconsider their rebellion in f...

Wednesday Night Bible Study

Today's questions include: - How do we walk to balance of being flippant and fearful? - Can God use fear to bring us to faith (not picked up on video)? - How do you foster faith on a regular basis? Send your questions in using swiftpolling.com and event code 24424

We are people of hope and people of God’s powerful and amazing promises. But far too often and easily, we get stuck in doubt and fear instead. What is it about these two things that overtake us so regularly? How do God’s people let go of such incredible birthrights for things that create so much misery? We may be locked in this battle for the rest of our lives, but we certainly aren’t the first on...

This weeks questions are: 1. The passage in Numbers mentions that the spies roamed around for 40 days. It seems that 40 days comes up frequently in the Bible. Is there a deeper meaning of 40 days? 2. As a parent of little ones, I admit to feeling like I don't want to leave this earth just yet. Like you said, I know heaven is amazing, but I can't help but feel a loss at thinking of going th...

The normal Christian life is a walk of faith. That means we usually don’t see very far down the road. We know God is good and His plans for us are what we want. But we can’t often know how God is going to be good or how His plans are going to play out in ways that show it. So are we doomed to always feeling like we’re walking blind? Actually, no, we’re not. In this story, we see something unique....