Penhold Church of Hope

Starting a series through Judges, we find the left-handed Ehud whose potential disability or perceived weakness is the very thing that is used to accomplish God's purposes.

We often associate God's blessing with increase—more resources, more opportunities, more strength. But sometimes, God does the unexpected. He subtracts when we think He should add. He weakens when we believe strength is needed. He closes doors we were certain He was opening. And in those seasons of reduction, God invites us to trust—not in our numbers, abilities, or strategies—but in His sover...

The dangerous deception of partial obedience is this: it feels righteous, but it is functionally rebellious . God demands and deserves our full and complete obedience.

Prevented from externally cursing the Israelites, Balaam set up the Israelites to bring curses on themselves as they gave into sexual immorality and false gods. We need to battle against sin and corruption, a battle that begins within our own hearts.

Drawing from Matthew 25, success is not determined by comparing our accomplishments against what other have done; instead, as God's servants, success comes from using the unique skills, abilities, and tasks God has given to each one of us.

Professor Kelly Steffen from Prairie College shares the message from John 14 that the cure for what troubles us is not found in reaching some destination, but knowing the person of Christ.

Concluding the study through Colossians, we find Paul commanding believers to be devoted to prayer, praying and watching for the opportunity to share the Gospel.

Instructing the Colossians to represent Christ in all they do and say, Paul applies this command to the three relationships: husband and wife; children and fathers; and slaves and masters.

Returning to Colossians 3, Paul instructs believers to take off our old sinful nature and put on our new nature found in Christ.

God has given us so much from His love, grace, mercy, and forgiveness and also our unique talents and experience. It is now our responsibility to freely share what we have been freely given.

From the beginning, it was not good for man to be alone. God created us from community but sin broke the relationships between each other and God. But now through Christ, the church can be the place of true community.

Everyone needs healing and restoration in some area of their life. The church needs to be a place that welcomes the messiness of life and offer the comfort and hope that can only through Christ.

We move toward what we focus on. In overcoming the world and our sinful nature, Paul reminds the Colossians where we should set our affections.

Following a star and helped by a murderous king, the Wisemen arrive to worship the newborn Messiah showing that God is king over all guiding and directing all things to his purposes.

The first angelic announcement of the long-awaited Messiah's birth was not to priests or rulers, but lowly shepherds, the precise audience for whom Jesus came to deliver the Good News.

With our true life hidden in the risen Christ, Paul reminds us in Colossians 3:1-4 to focus our heart and will on the things above and not on the things of earth.

For many, the Christmas season is anything but a time of peace on earth. However, the promised Prince of peace offers us something beyond what this world can provide.

With a variety of foreign philosophies and Jewish requirements, Paul reminds the Colossians not to be distracted. Rather, he encourages them to remain firmly rooted in the completely sufficiency and supremacy of Christ.

Christ suffered to bring salvation to all who believe. Now, as Paul teaches the Colossians, it is our joy to join in Christ's suffering to spread salvation to the whole world.

Continuing to lay out the basics, Paul reminds the Colossians that they we once enemies of God but are no longer thanks to the blood of Christ.

Near the opening of the letter to the Colossians, Paul makes sure they know who Jesus is: God with us.

In the second sermon on Colossians, Pastor Dave considers Paul's prayer to know the complete will of the Lord and how this should cause us to re-prioritize our to-do lists.

Starting a series through Colossians, we find in the opening verses that the heart of the Gospel is about changing lives.

Pastor Dave shares his testimony, a story that many can relate to and from which find hope, redemption, and restoration.

Learning from Jesus' invitation to and teaching of the Twelve, we see that His discipleship/mentorship program has not ended. He has invited us to join Him, learn from Him, and do life with Him in community with other believers.