Hope North Lakes Sermons

What is the grand story we are part of? What role does Hope North Lakes play in that story? How are we going to help more people start a relationship with Jesus in 2026? How are we going to help more people strengthen their relationship with Jesus in 2026? What will utter dependence look like? Jesus is not a reluctant Savior but one who rejoices over sinners coming home to God and we can trust in...

What if we stopped looking to the mirror for transformation and instead looked to God—would our lives be any different? Is that why Jesus says, “You must be born again,” before promising the gift of the Holy Spirit? The Spirit comes to dwell within us as both God and gift, making us alive to God’s love and power to change us from the inside out. Series: Christmas 2025 Speaker: Paul Stiver Hope Com...

Isaiah declares that a people walking in darkness will see a great light. When the light comes it is the Son of God who comes to us not on our terms but on his terms. He comes as an infant and dies as a man, willingly giving his life to end our estrangement from God. Will we receive him as a gift given to us? Series: Christmas Series 2025 Speaker: Paul Stiver Hope Community Church - North Lakes Do...

The Bible from Genesis to Revelation is filled with God’s story of his continual giving to his creation, culminating in the best gift ever, Jesus Christ. Series: Christmas 2025 Speaker: Steve Treichler Hope Community Church - North Lakes For more resources or to learn more about Hope North Lakes, visit hopecc.com/northlakes

We all look for comfort and answers in the midst of the storms of life. When the disciples turn to Jesus in a moment of crisis, they don’t know what to expect. Amazingly, seeing what Jesus does in the midst of their crisis causes them to have greater fear. What can fear teach us about storms and the Savior? Series: The Gospel of Mark Speaker: Paul Stiver Hope Community Church - North Lakes Downloa...

We tend to like things big and expect greatness on demand, but Jesus’ stories of seeds remind us that God’s kingdom grows in hidden places and humble beginnings. Ultimately, it’s Jesus’ own faithful yes—His obedience all the way to the cross—that opens the way for God’s transforming grace to take root in us. And when we trust Him with even our small yes, we’re drawn into a growth and beauty that a...

When Michael Scott said, “I’m ready to get hurt again,” on The Office, he was actually tapping into the tension that we live with when it comes to opening ourselves up to love and be loved. We live in the space between openness and rejection, security and vulnerability, knowing that relationships always come with the possibility of pain. We long for a love where we can be fully seen, fully known,...

In a time when AI can offer quick answers to our deepest questions, mystery can easily get pushed to the margins of our lives. If clarity is always at our fingertips, what place does God’s mystery have? And why does God sometimes veil his actions and words? In the Parable of the Sower, Jesus teaches that there is a secret to understanding God and his work—but it doesn’t come through simple resolut...

Some parts of the Bible can leave us scratching our heads. In this passage, Jesus speaks a word of grace that slices through confusion and reveals something astonishing—God is doing something new, offering a freedom and security deeper than we’ve dared to hope.  Series: The Gospel of Mark Speaker: Paul Stiver Hope Community Church - North Lakes Download Message Slides For more resources or to lear...

We often hear, “You hold the pen—write your own story.” But chasing that ideal can leave us burdened and searching for meaning. What if there’s a greater story already being written—one that invites us in, not because of our worthiness or impressiveness, but because true love has found us? Series: The Gospel of Mark Speaker: Paul Stiver Hope Community Church - North Lakes Download Message Slides F...

We love stories with clear-cut villains—where it’s easy to point fingers and identify the good guys and the bad guys. But the storyline of the Bible compels us to see things differently. In an account about religious leaders and a man in need of healing, we uncover a deeper spiritual problem than we ever imagined: our own hearts are hard toward God. What can melt a hard heart? Series: The Gospel o...

Like someone obsessed with their lawn, we’re constantly looking outward—measuring our lives, our status, and our efforts against others. In this search for a sense of rightness, we often end up unloving, insecure, and exhausted. Rather than producing love, our striving for justification breeds comparison and contempt. What we need is a love, rest, and freedom that doesn’t come from us but to us—a...

Mark 2 paints a portrait of a man going from lifelong paralysis to joyful walking down the street. And this happens in an instant! How was he made well? By the words of Jesus. But it's what Jesus does first that confronts us with the true nature of grace. Grace won’t operate on our terms, or come from within us. Before the man is healed, he is forgiven by Jesus. This teaches us that our help comes...

So often, we feel isolated and like we are in a desolate place because we’ve bought the lie that “belonging to ourselves” is where life is to be found. And we’re burning out because of it. It takes this story of a leper, unwilling isolation, and a surprise encounter with Jesus in a desolate place to take the weight of the world off of our shoulders, restore us, and bring us out of isolation into t...

For good and bad reasons, trust in authority is waning. And yet, we feel a need to look somewhere for hope and leadership. We need an authority figure who is powerfully and relentlessly committed to making all things new. We need an authority figure who is personally invested in our lives. We need authority we can trust. Where can this person be found? Series: The Gospel of Mark Speaker: Paul Stiv...

What if every day didn’t have to feel like a performance review? What if we could find relief from keeping score or from wondering if we'll ever be enough? Jesus announces that the time is at hand to believe the good news, and this good news has the power to finally set us free from being defined by what we do. No more being defined by our performance! Series: The Gospel of Mark Speaker: Paul Stiv...

Why does Jesus get baptized? And what does it mean that He came to “fulfill all righteousness”? In Mark 1, these surprising moments reveal the heart of the gospel — a Savior who stands in our place and sets us free from living for approval. In Jesus, we receive a new lease on life under the smile of God. And this comes not by pretending we have it all together, but by being honest about our shortc...

Series: The Gospel of Mark Speaker: Paul Stiver Hope Community Church - North Lakes Download Message Slides For more resources or to learn more about Hope North Lakes, visit hopecc.com/northlakes

As we zoom out the biblical story, we see that Exodus 17 is not about a random rock in the wilderness, but about Jesus. Jesus is the Son of God, the bread of life, and the Rock that was struck with the blow of justice so we rebels could find ourselves swept up in a story that leads to eternal and overflowing gratitude to God. Series: Cloud of Witnesses Speaker: Paul Stiver Hope Community Church -...