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If we are truly honest with ourselves, there might be times in our lives when we want to deny the reality around us. Maybe we don't want to face this situation or that circumstance so we engage in some sort of denial toward it. However, we all know that just because we deny something doesn't mean it isn't real and denying is not helpful to us. In fact, light must be shown on these realities in ord...

We have all been caught in a storm at one time or another. Maybe it was just a hard rain or maybe something more serious, like a hurricane, that we needed to take cover from. Regardless, we all know that some storms can be scary and even dangerous at times. We can become frantic during them. But what if walking through a storm can refine you as a person? As believers, that is what a storm in life...

Every book in the Bible matters. God gave us each and every book because it plays a role in the larger picture of the Story of Scripture. If we are honest with ourselves, we will admit that some books are much easier to understand and grasp than others. However, that doesn't mean we disregard any of them. This week is our last week in the Story of Scripture sermon series. In closing, we take a loo...

This week we look at the letters, or epistles, written in the New Testament. In reading someone else's "mail", we may have only part of the story. As we dig deeper into His Word, we learn the right order and right practice of our beliefs matters to the heart of God and to our witness to others. Listen to this week's sermon to learn about the importance of the letters written in God's Word which ar...

This time of year at Mount Hope, we like to take time to highlight our Compassion Ministry. And at the same time, as we continue in our sermon series, Story of Scripture, we see what God's response is when the covenants that we have been learning about, are broken. We see how compassion comes in when it comes to our walk with Christ. And in turn we learn how that compassion reaches out to those ar...

Getting outside of our comfort zone is not always appealing to us. We like to stay in places where things are familiar and recognizable. But what about when God calls us out of our comfort zone in our daily living? How do we walk that out on our journey as Christ-followers? We can be grateful that God doesn't call us to do this on our own. In the continuing of our sermon series, Story of Scripture...

As we have been learning about the structure of the Bible through our Story of Scripture sermon series, we have come to the place where we are between the Old Testament and the New Testament. What a pertinent place to be! However, we see that God is silent. Why? How are His people supposed to move forward, learn and grow in these years of silence? As always, the Lord does not leave His people. He...

Have you ever had times in your life when things are going fine and then something comes along that you just did not see coming? An interruption that may even cause you to get off track or drift. As believers, we don't always know how to deal with these things that throw us off. What does the Story of Scripture teach us about these times in our lives? In our current series, we are seeing that when...

The covenants that God made with His people throughout the Bible matter to us today more than we realize. Dive in with us this week as we learn about the Covenant God made with David and the significance of David's life has in the story of Scripture. Our legacy matters to future generations. But it may not be in the way that we often think.

God has laid out His story for us from beginning to end and He did much of that through the covenants we see throughout scripture. This week as we continue in our sermon series, Story of Scripture, we are introduced to the covenants given to God's people and how they were the catalyst to Jesus Christ coming and dying for our sins so that we may have eternal life with Him, God's ultimate plan.

God's Word is full of stories that inspire, promises that encourage, truths to live by, and commands to obey. At times we feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of different events, characters, and stories of the Bible. When reading the Scripture it is important for us to remember that it is one big amazing story that God is writing. In our new series, "The Story of Scripture," we start to unpack ho...

Sometimes, if we are honest with ourselves, we might question somebody's motives. We wonder why they are doing what they are. Surely, they must want something or must have an angle that we are simply not aware of. However, wondering about someone's motives isn't always a negative thing. In fact, as Christians, the people around us should wonder about us. They should wonder why we are living the wa...

Any of us that have brothers or sisters can understand that sibling rivalry is real. There are arguments, disagreements and even wrestling matches that can take place among siblings! Unfortunately, this is not a new fact. Sibling rivalry even took place in the Bible. We have been seeing this quite clearly as we have learned about the life of Jacob and his relationship with his brother, Esau. This...

Restoration. It's a word we often hear today in the age of HGTV, isn't it? This show is updating a house and that show is rebuilding a barn. Constant restoration. But what about in real life? Do we see restoration in our own lives? In the lives around us? The truth is, when we look at Scripture, we see that God is certainly in the business of restoration. When we look at the life of Jacob in our c...

Has there ever been a time when you looked back and realized something significant happened in your life but you weren't even aware of it? You didn't even realize that it was going on? Often, that is how God works in our lives. He works in significant ways and we don't even recognize that it is happening. As we continue through the book of Genesis learning more and more about the life of Jacob, we...

There are times in this life when we walk into a mess. Sometimes it's a physical mess in our homes, a mess of paperwork at the office or an emotional mess within our family. Some of these messes can affect our daily lives and make us wonder about the circumstances around us. How do these messes come to be? And where is God in the midst of the mess? Through Jacob, in our Unstoppable Blessing sermon...

Life brings uncertainty. There is no way around it. Plans change, mistakes get made, life throws us curveballs. So how do we deal with the uncertainty that comes our way? Where do we turn? And more importantly, do we see God working in these times of uncertainty? In our Sermon Series, The Unstoppable Blessing, we are learning about the life of Jacob. There is not doubt that Jacob had much uncertai...

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Blessing. We hear the word often in our Christian walk. It often seems to be a normal part of our vocabulary as believers. But what exactly does it mean to be blessed? Do the blessings come because of God's actions or do they have anything to do with our actions? And how are we to react when they maybe don't come in the manner we expect? At Mount Hope, we are beginning a new series, The Unstoppabl...

We are all aware that living an unhealthy lifestyle can lead to the result of us not being able to carry out our everyday duties and tasks. It's important to be fueled up on the right things to do what we need to do each day. Every marathon runner can relate, right? Without the proper fuel, that race will be harder to run. The book of Hebrews tells us that this life we are a part of is also a race...

In thinking about God's will for our lives, our minds tend to automatically go to our job, our family, where we are to live or how we are to be involved in ministry. However, there is an aspect of our lives that God also wants to focus on when it comes to His will. Our finances. God is the source of our blessings but where do those blessings go? How do we know who to give to? Truthfully, it can be...

We all want to know God's will for our lives. Naturally, we want to know where we are headed and exactly what He wants us to do. One way to learn this is to pray. We are often told to pray, but do we even know how? How should we approach Jesus and how do we go about asking him about our wants and needs? And more importantly, how do we handle His answer to our requests? This week, in our most recen...

When we set out on any new task or endeavor, we often expect to see results immediately. When we don't see those results, we begin to wonder if what we are doing is even making a difference. Should we continue? Will we eventually see the fruit of our labor? And how do we go from that new venture being a difficult change to it being one of the best decisions we ever made? This week, we dive into th...

Starting a new year leaves many of us asking the question, "What is God's will for my life?". A new year gives us each a blank slate. But what if a blank slate is not where we should begin? What if we should be learning and growing from what we have seen in the past? This not only applies to our own selves, but these questions can apply to a company, an institution and a church. So what is God's w...

Happy New Year to you! As you entered 2023, you probably started the new year with certain resolutions in mind. Unfortunately for the most of us, we lose steam and our resolutions are often abandoned. How do we do better, pursue what God has for us, and living the life that He intends for us? The best thing we can do is to seek God's will. Listen in as we explore how we we can discern God's will f...