Hope In Tigard Sermons

The early church must have been something to behold. Something so apart, so other from the way anyone else was living. In the days and weeks following Jesus' resurrection and the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, those early Christians lived differently. Luke wrote about what that life was like in Acts 2:  42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the br...

Easter changes everything. It means that sin and death have no power over us, it means that since Jesus has risen, he will rise too, it means that since he kept his promise, we can know that he will keep every promise to us. Easter changes everything.  It even changes the purpose for our lives. Matthew wants us to see that. See, Easter wasn't the ending of his book. He wanted us to know that...

You have a purpose. You have a mission. Jesus said so! Tomorrow we're going to talk about it. Read about it in Matthew 10! Today, I'm going to leave it as simple as that, because I want you to hear about this mission!

This Sunday at Hope, we will look at the account of Jesus calling Matthew to be his disciple. It seems like such a simple event. Matthew is at his tax collector's booth. Jesus says: "Follow me." And Matthew does. So many questions come into my mind! Why does he follow Jesus with such little context? What is the significance of that for today’s Christians? How are we called? And what...

If I hadn't told you, would you have known that this Sunday, we will be celebrating Jesus' baptism? I don't blame you if hadn't! But I am reflecting on the fact, this week, that this is something that we almost never give a thought to- the baptism of Jesus.  As I was studying this week, I found that the Sunday of the Baptism of Jesus used to be like Easter to the early church....

Every year, on the Sunday of Epiphany, the church across the world reads the same text. It's Matthew 2:1-12 . It's a story that's perhaps familiar to all of us. It's the story of the Magi traveling from far away, following a start placed in the sky by God himself, to come and worship Jesus.  It's a story that's maybe so familiar that it becomes hard to learn from it,...

How will you enter the new year? I know that's a question that's all over the internet and social media. How can you reflect on 2022? How can you make a resolution that will last? How can you grow as you go? There is a LOT to say about answering these questions God's way, through the Bible. And we're going to do just that tomorrow. Tomorrow, our time together will look differen...

There is a lot in Isaiah 9:2-8 that just comforts me to my core. There’s the light that shines in a dark place- it gets me that I don’t have to be the light. That gets me right in the heart because as a pastor, I have the privilege of talking to so many people who are despairing in so many ways, and so this gets me- that when I read this text, I don’t have to be the light for anyone- I just get to...

Isaiah 7:2-14. I’m guessing you’ve never heard that full story before. Give it a read before Sunday if you never have before. This isn’t an account that really fits into Sunday School curriculums. It’s not a story that Veggie Tales is going to make a movie about. Ever. And I get why. It’s certainly not child friendly. It’s not even all that compelling on its surface. I get that why this text doesn...

The book of Revelation is eye-opening. Its words are exciting, graphic, sometimes even terrifying as they describe a vision given to the apostle John as he sat in exile on the island of Patmos. In our text for Sunday John wrote about his vision from God: " Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.&quot...