Hope+: Hope Community Church Podcast

Philippians 4:10-13 This week, Pastor Dave brings us God's Word from the letter to the Philippian church where Paul claims to have found the secret to contentment! No matter how much we have, the only way we can find real contentment is in Jesus Christ our Lord.

In this episode, Pastor Dave invites 2 young adults to discuss the topic of Friendsgiving. They discuss the importance of showing Christ-like hospitality in various circumstances, especially around major holidays like Thanksgiving. Thank you to Caitlyn and Madi for sharing their thoughts and experience! Time Stamp: 0:00~01:47 Introductions (Upcoming episodes) 01:48~04:14 Favourite Thanksgiving tra...

Hebrews 2:5-11 This week, Pastor Dave continues our Hebrews series on how Jesus is the one who makes us fully alive. He doesn't simply make us better from a distance, but gets us because he suffers with us. He knows what we go through and also knows what brings us true life, life found only in Him.

Hebrews 2:1-4 This week Pastor Sid brings us God's Word as we continue to look at the book of Hebrews. The writer of Hebrews emphasizes for us the need to keep our eyes focused on Jesus our Lord. Without that focus, we are always prone to wander and drift away from the giver of Life.

Hebrews 1:1-4 This week, Pastor Dave continues our new sermon series on the book of Hebrews. The opening verses of Hebrews express how Great Jesus is and how all creation is sustained in his loving hands. We are invited and called to know Jesus for who he really is and to feel the weight and greatness of Him.

In this episode, Pastor Dave sits down with our new interns, Matteya and Thomas. Pastor Dave asks about how they came to faith and some of their thoughts on Gen Z and religioustrends that we are seeing today. Welcome to the team interns! Time Stamp: 00:00~01:03 Introductions 01:04~13:04 Matteya's testimony 13:05~28:01 Thomas' testimony (21:52 shout out to Luke and Nadya!) 28:02~33:31 Famil...

Hebrews 1:1-4 This week Pastor Dave begins our new sermon series on the book of Hebrews. The book of Hebrews was written to Jewish Christians who were feeling the strong pull to leave their faith in Christ to the social "safety" of their established Jewish faith. In the same way, we can have pressure in our culture today to slowly drift away from the faith. The encouragement and call fro...

1 Peter 2:9-12 Labour Day Sermon. This week, Pastor Jonathan witnesses to God's Word on our commissioning as priests in our day to day workplaces. Wherever we are called to, paid or unpaid, we are priests, bearing the burdens of a broken world, along with our ultimate high priest Jesus Christ who goes with every step of the way.

In this episode, Pastors Dave and Jonathan sit down to reflect and discuss our latest sermon series on God's holy name: YHWH. They discuss some of the highlights from this series and how it impacted them as preachers. They also go over some of the ministries coming in this new 2025 fall season. Time Stamp: 00:00~04:42 Introductions 04:43~10:39 Key takeaways from this series, YHWH 10:40~18:36 R...

Exodus 34:4-8 This week, Pastor Sid concludes our sermon series on reflecting on God's holy name, YHWH. As we have been seeing, YHWH is a loving, forgiving, and gracious God. Yet he does not leave the world to rot in the affects of sin. Out of his love, he wills to redeem all of creation once again to bring about healing and full restoration. We are called to reflect that redemption here and n...

Exodus 34:6-7 This week, Pastor Jonathan continues our sermon series on how God reveals himself as a steadfast, loyal, unfailing, faithful, loving God for us. In a world of instant gratification, we are called to be more like our Father, like Jesus, through the guidance and strengthening of the Holy Spirit to be more rooted and committed for God and for one another.

John 10:1-11 This week, Pastor Wout Brouwer brings us God's Word on our loving God as healer. Jesus, YHWH incarnate, heals and restores us in his everlasting love from our broken past, gives us meaning and purpose for the present, and is our living hope for the future. Pastor Wout is a retired pastor and is a member of our church at Hope. Note : the audio is a bit difficult to listen to for ab...

In this episode, Pastor Dave sits down with one of our church's elders, Joyce, and Jennifer Gamache to talk about one of the core ministries that our church is seeking to get involved with. They discuss some of the needs and opportunities to serve in our local area, around our church and neighborhoods. Jen is the Chapter Director of the Safe Families ministry in the Lower Mainland. Partnering...

Exodus 34:6-7 This week, Pastor Dave continues our series on the name and character of God, YHWH. Our God is not like us in the sense that he is slow to anger, not quick to point out faults and sins, but is forgiving and loving by character. The good news is also that he is slow to anger, but he does get angry at the broken, unjust, affects of sin and he desires to make it all proper again. In the...

Exodus 34:6-7 This week, Pastor Jonathan continues looking at the name of God and who he is. Our God, the creator of the entire universe is not just some distant divine figure, but one who is compassionate and gracious. He is a loving parent wanting good gifts for his children and he acts to restore all goodness for us and the whole world.

In this episode, Pastors Dave and Jonathan sit down to discuss what it means to do summer well. They discuss some of the challenges and joys of the summer months and what it might look like to be more intentional about living out our faith and identity in Christ through this season.   Time Stamp: 00:00~03:08 Introduction 03:09~07:47 Conviction #1- "We expect too much of summer." 07:48~13...

Exodus 34:6-7; 20:1-4 This week, Pastor Dave continues in part 2 of our sermon series on God's holy name: YHWH. Just like the ancient times when God revealed himself to His people, He continues to reveal himself to us and claims authority and power over all the other 'gods' we have in our lives. Jesus came in power and defeated the powers and principalities of this world. That is the g...

Exodus 34:4-7 This week, Pastor Dave begins our new sermon series named "YHWH." These four letters represent our God's personal name, which signifies how he desires to form personal, real relationship with his people. Our prayer and hope is that we will be able to reflect and abide in God's good, loving character through meditating on His holy name.

In this episode, the preaching pastors Sid, Dave, and Jonathan sit down to reflect on our recent sermon series: Resurrected Relationships. We go over some of thoughts behind the topics covered in this series and also a sneak peak on the new sermon series starting this week.   Time Stamp: 0:00~07:53 Intro/summer check in 07:54~15:09 Resurrected Relationships: friendship 15:10~19:52 Hospitality, mar...

John 3:30 This week, Pastor Sid reminds us of our identities in Christ, no matter what age and season of life we are in. At any age and time of our lives, our core and deepest identity is beloved children of God. In that way, we are called to be loved and love God and others through the tough journeys of aging.

Ephesians 5:21-32 This week, Pastor Dave witnesses to God's Word on what Resurrected Relationship looks like in marital relationships. In a society where fidelity and self-sacrificial loving of spouses were not expected, Christians were and are always called to reflect God's goodness and love toward others, including our spouses.

John 15:9-15 This week, Pastor Jonathan continues our sermon series on Resurrected Relationships. In light of the hope that we have in Christ, that all creation will be restored to its intended goodness, we get to live out that hope here and now through our friendships. We are called to love God and love others in a self-sacrificial, selfless way, just as Christ loves us in this way.

Romans 12:9-13 This week, Pastor Dave begins our new sermon series on what it means to live out our salvation in and through our relationships. One of the ways we are called to love and bless the world is through hospitality, loving our neighbours and strangers to life.

Colossians 2:8-15 This week, our church was blessed to have welcomed new members and 10 baptisms! In light of this gift, Dr. Mike Goheen brought us God's Word on the significance of baptism from the letter to the Colossians.

As a follow up of the Q&A session our church's senior youth group had, Pastor Jonathan and Misha sit down with 4 of our youth to re-hash some of the questions that were discussed. A big thank you to Riyah, Zoe, John, and Alex for being willing to deal with the pastors again ;)   Time Stamp: 0:00~00:53 Introductions 00:54~02:30 Q1- Why was John called "the one Jesus loved" if He l...