Hosanna Christian Fellowship

Spot the difference: Bishop, Pastor, and Shepherd Trick question. There is no difference. Yet over the years, these titles that are often used interchangeably in the New Testament have come to mean different things in our modern culture. So what does that mean for our local churches today? This week we take a break from our study through Genesis to study what the New Testament teaches us about lea...

What's in a name? A nose by any other name can still smell. While Shakespeare can poetically question the significance of names, when God comes along and changes someone's name, it's something to pay attention to. For the man born Abram, life had been a long journey of highs and lows, successes and failures. But constant through all of that was God's faithfulness. Thirteen years after the birth of...

God may hold the whole world in His hands... but does He see me? Abram and Sarai took it upon themselves to fulfill God's promises according to their own wisdom apart from God. The unforeseen results left their household in turmoil as Hagar, pregnant with Abram's son, held Sarai in contempt and Sarai did everything she could to put Hagar back in her place. Until Hagar reaches a breaking point and...

What do we do when we're waiting... and waiting... and waiting... and waiting... and waiting... Since God first called Abram from his homeland and into a relationship with Him, Abram has learned many practical lessons on what it means to walk by faith. He's learned to rely on God's wisdom and not his own; he's learned how to be generous with what God provides and how to live by self-sacrifice rath...

Abram believed God! And God credited righteousness to Abram! In Abram's faith journey to this point, he's had many highs and lows, but when God promised Abram a son and descendants more numerous than the stars in the sky, Abram's simple belief in that promise was rewarded mightily by God. But is is possible that mixed in with that belief are more questions? This week we finish studying Genesis 15...

Abram was blessed by God--of course his life was easy. Since God first called Abram to step out in faith and go to a foreign land God would show him, Abram's journey of faith has seen many highs and lows as he has learned to trust God and not lean on his own understanding. But after a great spiritual victory leaves Abram with a few more questions than he has answers, God makes Abram a promise that...

Why is that in the Bible? It's a question we can often find ourselves asking while studying the Scriptures. Like when Abram successfully rescues his nephew Lot and other captives from the kings of the east, and after the victory a king named Melchizedek greets Abram on his way home and blesses him. This detail in the story seems unimportant, if it weren't for the fact that this King Melchizedek is...

Welcome to Hosanna- your church! This morning, we celebrate Christmas together and learn about the greatest gift the world has been given.

A tale of two kings. When Abram's nephew became a prisoner of war by the kings of the east, Abram wasted no time in launching a rescue operation to save Lot. And by God's providence, Abram was successful, not only saving Lot but also saving all the captives and stolen goods from the conquered cities. In light of this great victory from God Most High, how will the kings of the land respond? This we...

Know the Truth, Live the Truth, Share the Truth That's our mission statement here at Hosanna Christian Fellowship but what does that mean? This week join us in a message for the New Year. As a church, we'll look back on 2024 and thank God for the work that He has done while looking forward to the new year and prepare for the work that God will do. And we'll survey through the Scriptures learn what...

Unto us a Child is born...so what? Every year at Christmastime churches around the world recount the events surrounding the birth of Jesus Christ. The manger and the star and shepherds and magi. But of all the births throughout history, what's so special about the birth of Jesus Christ that we still remember it year after year millennia later? Join us this week for a study through the Scriptures a...

When was Abraham a general? Abram in Egypt was a man of no faith, depending on his own wisdom to keep himself safe. Back in the promised land, Abram was a man of great faith, building altars to the Lord and offering Lot his choice of the land. But when Lot's choice to live by sight and not by faith leads to his captivity by the kings of the east, Abram's trust in God for his own safety will be put...

What do trials prepare us for? Famine in the promised land became a trial God used to test Abram's faith, and Abram found he had room to grow. But when the famine passed and Abram was back in Canaan again, everything looked great until trouble arose between Abram's household and the household of his nephew, Lot. Another trial to test what Abram has learned in his journey of faith. This week we beg...

We know we can be thankful for God, but why? Why is He worthy of thanks and praise? In this episode, four of Hosanna's leaders teach short messages on why we can be filled with thanks and praise God. Afterwards, we will take communion together and thank God for the sacrifice of His one and only Son Jesus Christ.

Where do you turn when life doesn't go as expected? Abram heard the voice of the Lord call him to leave his home in Ur and go to a land that God would show him. And in faith Abram followed the call of God to live as a stranger in the land of Canaan. But the road of faith is seldom a straight and easy path. What will this man of faith do when famine strikes the land that God promised to give to his...

What does it mean to have a faith like Abraham? Today Abraham is known as the great patriarch of faith to both Jews and Christians around the world. Aside from Moses, the New Testament mentions Abraham more than any other Old Testament person and the decisions Abraham made during his life are still impacting the world today. But how did the man named Abram at birth who grew up in pagan Ur become t...

Eras change, God doesn't. The book of Genesis records the history of humanity from God first creating mankind to God forming a nation for Himself in the children of Israel. As mankind rebelled against God, from Cain down to the tower of Babel, inciting God's judgement, God always preserved the remnant of those who would walk with Him by faith in order to bring about His promise to Adam and Eve tha...

When have people ever been unified? After the flood, the families of Noah's three sons grew as God's blessing to be fruitful and multiply came to pass. As the population expanded, all people were united in their ancestry, in their language, and in their sin nature inherited from Adam and Eve. This sin nature led to human hearts in rebellion to God, each seeking its own way apart from God, and to m...

How did we become so divided? When Noah and his sons left the ark after the great flood, God made a covenant with them and blessed them to multiply and fill the earth the same way He blessed Adam and Eve to fill the earth. How do 8 people who left the ark become 8 billion alive on the earth today? This week we continue our study in Genesis 10 and look at this list of nations that came from Noah an...

A new world but the same old problem. Noah and his family stood on dry ground once again after the floodwaters receded. With the world made new, Noah built an altar to worship God and God confirmed a covenant with Noah and all his descendants after him. But though Noah's work of ark-building was over, he would go on to live for centuries after the flood. So what comes next? This week we continue o...

Noah found grace in God's eyes! And God commanded Noah to build an ark to save Noah, his family, and every kind of animal, so they might be spared from God's act of judgement on His rebellious creation: a world-wide flood. God miraculously sealed the ark by His hand before the floodwaters came, and over a year later, Noah was still waiting inside the ark to hear a word from God. When would God rem...

Do you really know Jesus... ...Or do you only know about Jesus. In our troubled world, what we really need more than anything is an encounter with the real Jesus. This week, Jonathan Domingo from Far Reaching Ministries shares a message with us out of Luke 5. Together we'll look at the story of Peter's personal encounter with Jesus through a great catch of fish and we'll study four things we can l...

Was there really a global flood? The story is familiar to many. Wickedness was everywhere on the earth and God judged mankind by bringing a global flood that killed every living creature. But not before He commanded Noah to build an ark to save his family and two of every land animal and bird. But is that just a simple Sunday School story, or is there more to the Genesis account of the great flood...

How can Noah be righteous if God said that no one is righteous? Within ten generations from the creation of the first man and woman, the wickedness of mankind had become so prevalent on the earth that God grieved over His creation and determined to judge the world by a great flood. But the story of the flood teaches us about more than God's justice and judgment, because through the faith of Noah w...

Why won't God answer my prayers? How many times in our lives have we asked this question? What does it mean when when we cry out to God and all we receive is silence? What do we do when we have no clear direction from God? This week, Elder Ron Love shares a message of encouragement with us about what seasons of silence mean as we walk with God and how we can still learn and grow through these seas...