Suffering. None of us want it. In fact, we avoid it at all costs. Headaches get medicine, hunger gets food, and fatigue gets sleep. Whatever the symptom, we have a remedy. Few times are we unable to repair our issue. We have an aversion to suffering, and for the ...
Ministry flows from intimacy. It is not done in a vacuum, operating out of our own strength, intuition, and determination. Ministry is our Lord’s, done for His glory, honor, and fame. Ministry flows from intimacy with Him. Only then are we renewed, changed, and inspired. It is His presence ...
If the Apostle Paul walked into Hope Church, would he be comfortable? This question is plaguing me. Badly. Because the answer tells us all we need to know. If it’s a no… well, we somehow aren’t living out normal biblical Christianity. Our church doesn’t reflect a New ...
Are you rich? Most people I run into don’t think they are rich, no matter how much they have. I regularly run into people with $10-20 million that don’t feel rich. But lets remember to look through a worldwide lens, which will stamp rich on most Americans no matter what we have. That ...
I’ll never forgot walking out of the movie theater after having seen Lone Survivor and truly not being able to express what I witnessed. The mix of emotions left me completely speechless, or that anything I would say would simply be pointless. I felt courage, passion, joy, fire, depression, ...
When it comes to overseas missions, we all like to talk about a “calling.” We often make it seem mystical and mysterious, almost impossible to attain. It keeps us up at night and is constantly on our minds. We worry if we don’t have it, or if it doesn’t compare to someone ...
Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. Jude 1:3 [i] Jude is calling believers to contend for the gospel – to be willing to stand ...
In Joshua 9, the people of Israel, led by Joshua, were conquering one people after another according to the Lord’s command, as they moved towards taking the Promised Land. They were told by the Lord not to make treaties. They were commanded to completely wipe out all the peoples in the ...
Martin Luther (the Reformation Martin Luther) said, “The devil doesn’t care which side of the horse we fall off of – as long as we don’t stay in the saddle.” The devil is real. Hardships in this world are real. Persecution for our faith is real. Our sinful flesh ...
For the past two years at Hope Church, we have been on a mission – a mission against typical, traditional Western Christianity and toward Normal Christianity. We’ve suggested that our standard brand of Christianity tends to be rather boring and lame compared to a biblical one. ...
