How to Pray for Sex Trafficking At Hope Church, we are constantly looking for opportunities to advance God’s kingdom and invade darkness in our world and city. Hope Church’s local mission focus is sex trafficking and we desperately want to see this evil ended in Houston, America, and ...
I remember the moment the light bulb went off for me. I remember sitting on the Metro bus headed home from working in downtown Houston, listening to my iPod. I remember the pastor preaching on Colossians 2 in that podcast, and how that passage teaches that for the believer in Jesus, all of our ...
We often talk about the "western church". We are not talking about the church that John Wayne attended. We are talking about the body of Christ that exists in the western part of the world today. We are generally contrasting that to what we call a book of Acts church which is the body ...
If you remember the days when our church gathering met at Greater Macedonia, then you will be able to visually track along with what I’m saying. But I will explain the scene for those who cannot picture what I’m saying. The children’s ministry set up at Greater Macedonia was a ...
The temperature is in the forties, there is drizzling rain, and an excited crowd gathers together. After moments of anticipation, a roar erupts! There is mass celebration, one heard from quite a ways around. After all, football is king in the heart of Texas. Only… it’s not a football ...
In Genesis 12, Abram (later known as Abraham) is given one of the greatest promises of all time. The Lord told him: Go from your country and you kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name ...
Freedom is something we fight for everyday. I’m not speaking of eternal freedom. I’m not speaking of salvific freedom. For those who are in Christ, we belong to the family of God and will never be plucked out. We are eternally free! But even though we are saved and our eternal hope is ...
If angels were walking among us, I think they’d say there’s far too little celebration in the world. Far too little singing, and dancing, and outright rejoicing. I think they’d say that we are a people who have never really learned to celebrate. Angels should know, after all. ...
About a month ago, I was watching and slightly participating in a live Twitter Q&A with Tim Keller, pastor of a church up in Manhattan. Some questions were brilliantly crafted to engage the heart on deep truths; others were more playful, taking advantage of the opportunity to ask Tim Keller ...
We know we need it, yet few attain it. We desire it, yet shut it out. We like it, except live like we don’t. That’s how rest is. In the midst of our fast-paced society, rest has become optional, even superfluous. We have shoved it into the margins of life, relegating it to our ...
