Hope Christian Fellowship

Have you ever wondered what our teens do every Sunday night at youth group? Well wonder no longer because this Sunday, Hope Youth is taking over and you’ll get to experience it firsthand! We’ll have game time, little bit of worship, and a chance to hear from our students on how God has been working in their lives.

Wednesday Night Bible Study

We’re going to take a big chapter jump forward in our study of Israel’s story. The Israelites have been at the base of Mount Sinai for most of the book of Exodus, all of Leviticus, and the first part of Numbers. Now they are getting ready to move. And as they prepare, Moses notes how they are learning to follow God. It is a step by step discipline. Not running ahead and not dragging behind, but ra...

Wednesday Night Bible Study

If you were to move from one region of the country to another, you would probably notice a difference in the accent of those in your new location from what you’re used to hearing. At first, it would be quite obvious, but over time, you’d get used to it. In fact, if you live in another place long enough, you would probably start to adopt the accent of your new home for yourself. Being around these...

Wednesday Night Bible Study

When you leave this house, you represent this family!” Have you ever been told this or maybe told one of your kids this? The obvious implication is that your behavior reflects on what kind of family you come from. This is the same idea behind Paul calling Christians, Ambassadors of Christ. As he says elsewhere, our citizenship is in heaven. God is making his appeal to the world through us. Whereve...

Wednesday Night Bible Study

Restart

Wednesday Night Bible Study

Pretend you’ve won a fantastic trip to an exotic location… sounds like a dream come true, right? Is there someone in your life that you wouldn’t go without? This person would be someone so connected and so dear to you that the thought of being away from them for an extended period of time would make you decide to pass on the trip unless they could go with you. Maybe you don’t have anyone like that...

Wednesday Night Bible Study

The new year is often a time for resolutions; we commit to changes we believe are good and needed. But by this time, many of our resolutions are fading or forgotten. It’s not that we always just ignore them. We have reasons and excuses for why we can’t continue or why this day is different and makes follow through impossible. The problem is that whether we have a legitimate reason or we are just m...

1/13/2021 Wednesday Night Bible Study

COMMUNION Do you know someone who can never bring themselves to apologize? There are probably many different reasons that people struggle to say they are sorry. But if you’re the one who has been hurt, this refusal is almost a second betrayal. We can forgive people for being less than perfect. However, if that person wants to try to pretend they didn’t do anything wrong, it creates a second hurdle...

Have you ever struggled with the fact that you can’t see or hear God physically? As a normal person, it is a challenge to interact with someone that isn’t ever visible. In dark moments, we question if He’s there, if He cares, and if He even exists. Our humanity prefers to know through our physical senses or abilities. If we can touch something with our hands or see it for ourselves, we’re a lot mo...

God’s Got It

You probably have some place in your home where you are currently hiding presents. Whether you live alone or with a whole gang of people, we recognize that we don’t leave gifts out in the open lest we spoil the surprise for someone. The norm is to wrap the present so that even when we give it, we don’t give away the identity of the item until it is opened. Surprises can be a lot of fun… or they ca...

Christmas season often brings up pictures of warm fires in cozy homes with a sweet family gathered together. We talk about the treasured moments we get to spend with those we love at Christmas to the degree that belonging is almost entirely interwoven into the whole feel of Christmas. But many people do not have that kind of togetherness or belonging on Christmas – or at any other time throughout...

Any good parent knows that repeating yourself goes with the territory. While your child may be able to quote entire movie scripts from memory and remember every word to the latest song, it seems that some part of their intelligence is blocked from simply listening to their parents. But parents don’t talk just because they have a captive audience. Loving parents talk because they believe their word...

If you’re playing a game for the first time, whether it is a board game, a video game, or a school yard game, you start with the basics. You need to know what the goal of the game is and what the rules are. Otherwise, you can spend a lot of time and energy trying to win, but never get anywhere close. In life – especially as a child of God – there are some basics. God finishes off the Ten Commandme...

11/18/2020 Wednesday Night Bible Study

In all of the controversy that swirls around our nation, some have pointed at a lack of common and normalized respect for one another as a root cause for much of our unrest and unhealth as a society. In the Ten Commandments, God clearly sets out rules meant to point us towards the necessity of honoring one another. From parents to spouses to people in general, God tells His people that it matters...

Wednesday Night Bible Study

Over the past few years, there has been quite a bit of discussion about kneeling. Some see it as a symbol of honor mixed with a cry for forward progress on important issues in our country. Others see it as a way of worshipping what doesn’t deserve to be worshipped. And still others have adopted it as a way to take a posture of humility and reconciliation. So we don’t actually agree on what it mean...