Hope Downtown Minneapolis Sermons

Psalm 127 points to how a house and a household can be built in God’s favor, but in the process exposes our own vanity. Jesus fulfills Psalm 127 in surprising ways that remind us that while we may be forgotten by man we will never be forgotten by God. Series: Psalms Speaker: Sam Kemp Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis Download Message Slides For more resources or to learn more about Hope...

What difference does the Lordship of Jesus Christ actually make? This week, we look directly at this question and how it can be transformative to let Jesus “drive”. Series: The Gospel of Mark Speaker: Steve Treichler Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis Download Message Slides For more resources or to learn more about Hope Downtown, visit hopecc.com/downtown .

The religious leaders seriously try to trap Jesus with impossible riddles and questions during the Jesus’ last trip to Jerusalem. Jesus’ answers are astonishing, and fully applicable to us today. Series: The Gospel of Mark \ Speaker: Steve Treichler \ Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis \ Download Message Slides For more resources or to learn more about Hope Downtown, visit hopecc.com/dow...

A simple question about taxes becomes one of the deepest conversations Jesus ever has about human identity. When He asks whose image is on the coin, He is leading us to a bigger question: whose image is on us? This week we'll explore what it means to belong to God, why we've forgotten our true source, and how Christ restores what sin has distorted. Series: The Gospel of Mark Speaker: Davis Johnson...

"Who made you the boss of me?" is not just a modern question, but also the very question Jesus faces in the temple courts. As religious leaders challenge His authority, Jesus reveals that everyone serves something and that the real issue is not whether we have authority in our lives, but where we've placed it. Through a surprising parable, He shows us an authority unlike any the world has ever kno...

The cursing of the fig tree has always been a problematic passage for those who read the Bible. What did the poor tree do to get such a treatment from Jesus? This week, we see how Mark uses it as a “Markan Sandwich” to be a metaphor for something so much deeper. Series: The Gospel of Mark Speaker: Steve Treichler Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis Download Message Slides For more resourc...

We are beginning the final part of the gospel of Mark this week, with Jesus entering into Jerusalem. The expectations upon him are so high, and so wrong, that a collision of ideals will soon reveal if people want to follow the real Jesus, or a Jesus of their own making. Series: The Gospel of Mark Speaker: Steve Treichler Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis Download Message Slides For more...

Most of us think our problem is that we haven’t climbed high enough yet. If we could just achieve a little more, earn a little more, become a little more, then maybe we’d finally rest. But Mark 10 exposes how blind that makes us. The disciples are obsessed with getting higher while Jesus is trying to show them that true life is found in following him downward into grace. Series: The Gospel of Mark...

What if the thing standing between you and peace isn’t failure… but success? In Mark 10, we encounter the rich young ruler: a man who seemingly has everything, yet still comes running to Jesus restless and empty. Together we’ll explore the deeper question underneath his story: What are we really looking to for rest, security, and significance? Series: The Gospel of Mark Speaker: Davis Johnson Hope...

We long for deep connection and lasting security, yet often settle for what is easiest rather than what is true. In Mark 10, Jesus cuts through the noise of legal debates about marriage to reveal something far greater—God’s original design and his unwavering commitment to his people. This passage ultimately points us beyond earthly relationships to the good news of a Savior who does not walk away...

Most of us think we understand Jesus, but what if getting him slightly wrong is why so much else feels off? In Mark 9, the disciples are close to Jesus, yet still completely confused about who belongs, how serious sin is, and what really matters. This passage exposes how easy it is to miss him and why seeing him clearly changes everything. Series: The Gospel of Mark Speaker: Cor Chmieleski Hope Co...

We all want to be great. Whether we admit it or not, there’s something in us that wants to rise above, to be seen, to matter. In Mark 9, the disciples finally say it out loud: “Who is the greatest?” Instead of shutting the question down, Jesus redefines it. In this message, we’ll see how our pursuit of greatness gets hijacked, why it ultimately leaves us empty, and how Jesus reveals a better way:...

“I just don’t believe hard enough!” or “Oh, how I wish I had more faith!” These are common things that followers of Christ stuggle with. This week’s passage deals with this issue head on, and frees us up from always focusing on our lack of faith to something else, that isn’t changing at all. Series: The Gospel of Mark Speaker: Steve Treichler Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis Download M...

The cross was designed to degrade, humiliate, and declare a person unfit for human company. Yet this is where the Son of God chose to go. Why? It was ugly. It was irreligious. It was the place of slaves, rebels, and criminals. Yet Jesus takes upon himself our shame, degradation, and sin. What if the ugliness of the cross is God’s evidence to show his love and salvation? Series: The Gospel of Mark...

We are not as clear on God as we think we are. In Mark 8, Peter confesses Jesus as the Christ and then immediately pushes back on the very mission that defines him. This passage exposes how we misunderstand God, avoid suffering, and try to secure our own lives, and invites us to find life instead in the One who gave his life for us. Series: The Gospel of Mark Speaker: Davis Johnson Hope Community...

How can it be that the most obvious things in life we seem to overlook or forget about? The disciples of Jesus were no exception to this. This week, we look at the transformation of Jesus’ most closest friends who went from clueless to confessing Jesus as the Christ! Series: The Gospel of Mark Speaker: Steve Treichler Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis Download Message Slides For more re...

In Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare beckons women to “sigh no more” over deceitful men but instead to give themselves over to blithe and bonny (i.e. Happiness and Cheer). Amidst the countless sighs of our lives, is that what Jesus calls us to—sigh no more, just be happier? In this message we look at two specific sighs of Jesus and how they point us to a deeper, stronger, more enduring, and more...

A mother crosses every barrier to fall at Jesus’ feet, believing that even a crumb of his power can rescue her helpless child. How profound that it was not through the religious leaders or even his own disciples but through an “outsider” that Jesus is correctly identified as the deliverer! This is good news for us: deliverance comes to the helpless through faith in another, namely Jesus Christ. Se...

Why does it feel so good to point out what’s wrong? In Mark 7, the Pharisees find fault while standing in front of a miracle. Jesus responds with unsettling clarity. The real problem is not out there but in here. Beneath our criticism lies a craving to be right, and beneath that, a heart that cannot fix itself. This week we will see why self-improvement cannot save us and how only the cross can wa...

What do you do when you’re certain you can handle it on your own—only to have that certainty upended? The disciples were in such a spot. Then Jesus showed up and said, “Do not be afraid, I will carry you through.” When overwhelmed by life’s storms, are you prone toward self-reliance like the disciples? If so, this message will point you back to Jesus who is faithful to carry you through. Series: T...

It’s easy to glaze over the feeding of the five thousand. But in Mark 6, Jesus is showing us what his kingdom is like. He meets real need, confronts our instinct to control, and invites us to keep coming back with empty hands to the only one who can truly satisfy. Series: The Gospel of Mark Speaker: Davis Johnson Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis Download Message Slides For more resourc...

Here in our city, these are some of the most trying times in the last 50 years. Does Jesus have a word for us as we are so burdened by all that is going on? This week we look at how a very hard day in the ministry of Jesus can actually minister to us as well. Series: The Gospel of Mark Speaker: Steve Treichler Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis Download Message Slides For more resources...

Jesus returns home but doesn’t experience the type of homecoming one might expect. It could be said the townspeople are out of joint. Those we’d expect to greet him with adulation instead take offense at him. But it’s not just them who is out of joint—so are we and so is our city. Oh, how we need the Lord to draw near us in this time. Series: The Gospel of Mark Speaker: Cor Chmieleski Hope Communi...

In Mark 5, everything people are afraid of actually happens... and Jesus is still there. He slows the story down, treats death like something temporary, and refuses to let fear have the final word. What if the good news isn’t that fear goes away, but that it no longer gets to be in charge? Series: The Gospel of Mark Speaker: Davis Johnson Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis Download Messa...

Mark chapter 5 has been named “The St. Jude chapter” as he is the patron saints of lost causes. In Mark 5 we meet 3 people who are at the very end of their rope. In this week’s message, we’ll take a dive into how Jesus bring amazing order out of utter chaos. Series: The Gospel of Mark Speaker: Steve Treichler Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis Download Message Slides For more resources o...