The Hope Collective Message Podcast

The Hope Collective sits in on a conversation about living from an undivided heart. Lead Pastor Dave Mudd shares a message on the posture of love in a divisive time.

Lead Pastor Dave Mudd explores what it means to follow Jesus with an undivided heart. April shares a story of how reading Scripture is changing the way she approaches life's challenges.

Lead Pastor Dave Mudd shares about the difference between maintenance and mission for followers of Jesus. Plus, a conversation with men and women from The Hope Collective who are growing in relationship with God as they take up their Kingdom responsibility.

Jesus made one thing clear about following him: it wasn't for the faint of heart. It was a life of difficulty, sacrifice, and self-denial for the love of God and good of others. When we settle for security and ease, we settle for something less than the revolution Jesus was starting. If we want to join Jesus on his mission to bring hope, we'll need to choose between pursuing comfort or picking up...

There is something new that God wants to do: in the world, in the church, and in each of our hearts. In his life and teachings, Jesus called out the one thing that would keep his people from embracing this new thing that God had in store. Join Alpine Chapel for a special message from Lead Pastor Dave Mudd about patching old clothes, pouring new wine, and what it means to live with an openness to t...

There is a lie that humanity has been buying since the first pages of Scripture: that we can be like God and call the shots for our own lives. When we buy into this lie, we think of ourselves as the center of the universe and expect our families, society, and God himself to meet our demands. This is what John calls “the pride of life”. God loves us too much to let us ruin our lives by thinking thi...

Worldliness can creep into our lives and our communities without us even realizing it. Not only will it keep us from experiencing God's love in our lives but it keeps us from showing God's love to others. How can we avoid the pitfalls of what John calls "the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes" and open ourselves to more of God's love? Join Alpine Chapel for a round table discussion about 1...

We are living on the cutting edge of history. There is something new that God wants to do in and through his church but there is one thing that will keep us from bringing the HOPE of Jesus to the world around us. It’s putting more hope in the world that Jesus came to save than in Jesus, himself. Listen as Lead Pastor Dave Mudd sheds light on the disease of worldliness that threatens to kill our li...

The way relationships start isn't always the way relationships stay. In order for things to grow, they have to change. Many people associate God's presence as being in one place and available to one person. While our relationship with God may have started with this way of thinking, God's desire has always been for the one to become the many. Check out Part Three of Alpine Chapel's series, "From He...

Jesus spent much of his life around tables. Whether it was with his followers, those who were curious, or the ones society called "the wrong kind of people", Jesus knew that an invitation to the table was an invitation to relationship. It's the same invitation that God gives us today and that we can give to others. Check out Part Two of Alpine Chapel's series, "From Here to There" and listen as Le...

One thing we can all agree on is that the pandemic has revealed things about us: our priorities, our struggles, and the things that keep us back from what God wants to do in our lives. We've had to come face to face with our captivity. Throughout history, God has proven himself to be a God that brings freedom to the captive. How can we experience the freedom He offers and bring that freedom to oth...

Not all questions are created equal. In fact, every question you're asked comes from a different place and requires a different response. Giving a good answer doesn't mean having the right response. It means taking the time to figure out where each question is coming from and what the person asking really want. Join Alpine Chapel for Part Four of our series "Asking For a Friend" and listen as Spir...

There's a famous line in Scripture that we seem to be getting backward. It instructs us to be "quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry." Instead, every one of us is tempted to be slow to listen, quick to talk back, and get angry in an instant. So what does it mean to listen, really? And why should we listen in the first place? Check out Part Four of Alpine Chapel's series, "Asking...

We all like it when God allows the good things in our life, but what about the difficult things? What about those weaknesses that slow us down, hold us up, and keep us from doing everything we feel like we should be doing? The apostle Paul wasn't afraid to ask God these questions or share what he learned with the church in Corith. While Paul didn't get the response he wanted, he did get a response...

Tough questions are being addressed by culture that need to be addressed by the church, too. The problem is that we seem to have lost the ability to "agree to disagree", both inside and outside the community of faith. As the church, we can lead the way in talking about things that matter to us knowing that the way we talk matters to God. We may not always agree, but we will always be family. Join...

There are only two types of desires that we experience in life: those that come from the Holy Spirit and those that don't. When we follow Jesus, the Holy Spirit gives us new desires that we still have the choice to act on or not. These Holy Spirit desires always take the shape of the answer to this question: what does love require? Check out Part Five of Alpine Chapel's series on Community DNA and...

The heart of God has always been to enjoy a relationship with us. It's why he seeks us out, draws us back, and pulls out all the stops to put his love on display towards us. It's only by experiencing this love through Jesus that we become the people of love that God created us to be. Join Alpine Chapel for a special Father's Day message from Lead Pastor Dave Mudd all about seeing, believing, recei...

The Holy Spirit isn't a tool or a technique that we leverage for our advantage. The Holy Spirit is a person that leads us to join God's mission of reconciliation. When we're led by him, we develop a deep hatred for sin, both the bad things we do and the good things we leave undone. When a community is led by the Holy Spirit, it becomes a place where we can confess those sins to one another and exp...

For too long, "accountability" in community has meant giving people a report on your bad behavior. This idea of accountability falls far short of what Jesus had in mind. Accountability doesn't mean focusing on what we're doing wrong. It means helping one another hear and respond to God's voice in our life. Join Alpine Chapel for Part Four of our series on Community DNA and listen as Lead Pastor Da...

People grow best in environments where they can feel safe and be seen. The problem is that our experiences trusting people can make us feel anything but safe, so we hide from others and stunt our own growth as people. The family that Jesus invites us into is one where we aren't afraid to be seen because we know that we're safe. That's the power of community. Check out Part Three of Alpine Chapel's...

God gave us each other so that we could care for one another in times like this, but it's hard to care for one another when you don't know one another. That's why when it comes to community, the conversation starts with knowing and being known: letting people see the real you and embracing people as the real them. We have the power to do this because God does it for us. Check out Part Two of Alpin...

Jesus is the one who changes and grows us, but more often than not he uses people to bring that growth about. In biblical community, we are for one another what Jesus was for his disciples: a powerful force of invitation and challenge that helps us become the people God created us to be. Join Alpine Chapel for a timely series all about community, beginning with a message called, "Why We Need Each...

This Mother's Day is unlike anything that anyone was expecting or wanting. Some people feel disappointed, others feel broken, and still others feel shattered. It's easy to think about just giving up when we look at the dust of our disappointments. When God sees dust, though, He sees the opportunity to breathe life into something new. Join Alpine Chapel for a special Mother's Day message from Natal...

Talking about the "will of God" is tricky. We want to know what it is, but we don't always know where to go to find it. Here's the thing: knowing God's will is less about information and more about transformation. It's less about knowing the specific details of God's plan and more about becoming the kind of person that does what Jesus would do. Listen as Alpine's Lead Pastor Dave Mudd helps us unp...

All the information and perspectives we're taking in these days makes it harder than ever to have the mindset we really need: the mindset of Jesus. Without the mind of Jesus, our actions start to look just like those of the broken world that Jesus is on a mission to rescue. Our response can only be on thing: to do whatever it takes to be with Jesus so that we can think like Jesus. Join Alpine Chap...