Hope Church - Fort Worth, TX

In this summer interview episode, Matt and Brian welcome their wives, Jessica and Glenda, to the table for a conversation that longtime listeners have never quite gotten to hear before. After a lighthearted round of get-to-know-you questions, the group settles into the real stuff — sharing how they each grew up, how they met their spouses, and how they first came to faith in Christ. Glenda recalls...

Continuing through the book of Acts, Pastor Luke focuses on the beginning of Paul's third missionary journey, where the emphasis shifts from simply planting churches to  strengthening  the disciples already in them. The big idea driving the sermon is that the gospel doesn't just save — it transforms every part of our lives. Pastor Luke illustrates this first through the story of Apollos, a brillia...

In the first episode of the Sunday Extra Podcast Summer Interview Series, Matt sits down with Pastor Harold Bullock — the man who founded Hope Church in Fort Worth in January of 1978 — to give the growing number of newer members a chance to get to know the man behind the church's beginnings. Harold shares his story of growing up in northeast Tennessee in a blue-collar family, coming to faith at ar...

In this message from Acts 17–18, Pastor Jeremy unpacks Paul's evangelism in Athens and Corinth, anchoring everything around one central truth: the gospel must be faithfully communicated in every culture. In Athens, Paul doesn't wait for his traveling companions before acting — when the Holy Spirit spurs him, he moves. And rather than defaulting to Old Testament history as he would with Jewish audi...

Guest speaker, Josh Hofford, opens with a word of encouragement to every father in the room — reminding them that their assignment was given by God Himself, that it is eternal and essential, and that God will not run out on them or their children. From there, Josh anchors the message in a sweeping passage covering Acts 15-17, tracing Paul's second missionary journey across roughly 1,300 miles on f...

In this bonus episode of the Sunday Extra podcast, Pastor Matt fills in some important context before the church moves into the second missionary journey in Acts 15. Specifically, he walks through the Jerusalem Council found in Acts 15:1-35, where a dispute arose after Jewish believers from Judea began teaching that circumcision according to the law of Moses was required for salvation. Paul and Ba...

Randall Robinson, a longtime member and Antioch graduate of Hope Church, opens by sharing his own story of being commissioned and sent to Kansas City to help plant a church — a story that mirrors the very passage he's preaching from. Picking up in Acts 13–14, he walks the congregation through Paul's first missionary journey with Barnabas, beginning at the church in Antioch where the Holy Spirit ca...

This week, Pastors Matt, Jeremy, Jake, and Luke dive deeper into Sunday's sermon on Acts 10:1–11:18 — one of the longest continuous narratives in the entire book of Acts (66 verses!). Why did Luke dedicate so much space to the conversion of Cornelius? And what does it mean for us today? In this episode: Why the Cornelius account is a major turning point in Acts — and in all of church history The "...

Pastor Matt opens by setting the stage with Acts 1:8, the last recorded words of Jesus before his ascension, where he commands his followers to be witnesses "to the ends of the earth." For the first nine chapters of Acts, the gospel had been spreading rapidly — but almost exclusively among Jewish people. The burning question hanging over the early church was this:  What about the Gentiles?  Could...

In episode 21 of season four of the Sunday Extra podcast, Pastor Matt Sturdivant, Pastor Jeremy, Pastor Jake Myers, and Pastor Luke Myers gather around the table to recap and expand on the previous Sunday's sermon from Acts 9:18-43. The big idea of the message was that  God develops who He calls  — and while a calling can be immediate, the preparation for that calling is always a process. Four key...

Pastor Matt opens by honoring Memorial Day, reflecting on John 15:13, where Jesus says, "Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends." He draws a connection between the sacrifice of soldiers and the sacrifice of Christ, reminding the congregation that sacrifice for the good of others is honorable and meaningful. From there, he transitions into the ongoing seri...

In this episode, drawn from his message on Acts 9:1-18, Pastor Matt walked through Saul's conversion with one driving idea: Jesus transforms sinners and sends them on mission. Three lessons anchored the sermon. First, Jesus confronts us in our direction — and as Pastor Matt pointed out, you can be sincere and still be sincerely wrong. Second, Jesus interrupts us with His presence because salvation...

Pastor Matt opens by grounding the sermon in a universal truth from Romans 3:23, which says, "For everyone has sinned. We all fall short of God's glorious standard." From that foundation, he introduces the big idea of the message:  Jesus transforms sinners and then sends them on mission — He starts working in you, then works through you.  Turning to Acts 9:1-18, Pastor Matt walks through the stunn...

In this episode of the Sunday Extra podcast, Pastor Matt Sturdevant and the Hope Church team revisit Acts 8, going deeper into the passages they couldn't fully explore on Mother's Day Sunday. The overarching big idea of the sermon was that God advances His mission through ordinary believers who are willing to faithfully follow wherever He leads. Pastor Matt opens by taking a closer look at Acts 8:...

Pastor Matt opens by asking a question most of us can relate to: have you ever had your plans completely redirected? Using Acts 8 as his text, he shows how the early church faced exactly that when persecution broke out in Jerusalem. Rather than stopping the mission, the scattering of believers actually fulfilled Jesus' own words from Acts 1:8 — that His followers would be witnesses in Jerusalem, J...

Pastor Jake's sermon covering Acts 6–7 centers on the big idea that local faithfulness launches the gospel of forgiveness globally. He walks through the early church's organizational response to a widow-care problem, the false accusations leveled against Stephen, and Stephen's sweeping sermon before the Sanhedrin — a sermon that drew clear parallels between Moses and Jesus while declaring that God...

In this message from Acts 6–7, Pastor Jake Myers walks through a pivotal turning point in the book of Acts — the moment the gospel begins its journey outward from Jerusalem to the rest of the world. At the center of this transition is Stephen, not a pastor or apostle, but an ordinary church member appointed to serve in food services. Stephen was chosen because he was  known  — described as a man f...

In episode 17 of season four of the Hope Church Sunday Extra podcast, Pastors Jeremy, Brian, Luke, and Jake gather to discuss Luke's sermon from Acts 3–5. The big idea of the sermon is that the Spirit-filled church is bold in both its mission and its commitment to holiness. Luke walks through five scenes from the text: Peter healing a lame man and pointing the crowd to God's glory, Peter and John...

Pastor Luke walks through Acts 3–5, centering the sermon around one big idea: the Spirit-filled church is bold in mission and serious about holiness. He opens with the healing of a lame man at the Beautiful Gate, where Peter declares, "In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk" (Acts 3:6). Pastor Luke emphasizes that the miracle wasn't done in Peter's authority but in the name and...

In episode 16 of season four of the Hope Church Sunday Extra podcast, hosts Jeremy, Brian, Luke, and Jake gather around the table to look back at Pastor Matt Sturdivant's sermon on Acts 2 — one of the most significant passages in all of Scripture, where the Holy Spirit falls on the disciples at Pentecost, Peter preaches the first Christian sermon, and 3,000 souls are added to the church in a singl...

Pastor Matt delivered an energetic message on Acts 1-2, tracing the birth of the church through four movements: preparation, power, proclamation, and response. He began by describing how 120 disciples waited in unity and prayer in the upper room after Jesus' ascension, following His command in Acts 1:8 to wait for the Holy Spirit's power before becoming witnesses. The dramatic arrival of the Holy...

Pastor Matt Sturdevant began a new sermon series on the book of Acts, examining Acts 1:1-11 and establishing that Jesus continues his mission through the Holy Spirit-empowered church. He made five key points from this passage: Jesus's work is both finished (redemption) and unfinished (mission), we need the Holy Spirit rather than just more human effort, believers must stay focused on the mission i...

Pastor Matt began a comprehensive 16-week journey through the Book of Acts, which is part of a larger "Bible in a Jar" series covering John, Acts, and Romans. He explained that while John shows us who to trust, Acts reveals how to live out our faith, demonstrating that Jesus' mission didn't end with His ascension but continues through His Holy Spirit-empowered church. Focusing on Acts 1:1-11, Past...

On Easter Sunday, Pastor Matt Sturdevant concluded Hope Church's series through the book of John by examining the resurrection of Jesus Christ. His big idea was clear: "The resurrection of Jesus is the greatest turning point in history, and as such, it demands a response." Matt highlighted four transformative truths from the resurrection account in John 20-21. First, the resurrection turns despair...