Worship Service Videos

In Matthew 7:24, at the end of His Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says that the person who hears His words and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. Now, in Matthew 16, Jesus promises to build His church on the rock of Peter’s confession: “You are […]

The longer we walk with Christ and live within His church, perhaps the greater the temptation becomes to see ourselves as “insiders,” as people who have a right to belong. But our standing with Christ and our membership in the church is never a matter of status or deserving, but rather, grace. Today, we will […]

Hope welcomes Rev. Timothy Kinne as our guest pastor. Today’s message is “Into, Out of, and Into the Boat,” based on Matthew 14:22-33.

“There’s not enough.” At some point, most of us have come to the limit of our resources. We have things we’d like to do and places we’d like to go, but there’s not enough money or enough time. We’d like to accomplish more, but there’s not enough energy. In our Gospel reading, the disciples come […]

For those who are in Christ, we can be confident that God is for us. And if God is for us, we are utterly secure! Of course, security in God’s economy doesn’t necessarily mean comfort as the culture around us defines it. Paul knew all about danger and hardship and difficulty in this life. And […]

When the Holy Spirit brings us to faith and life in Jesus, He makes us people of hope. Paul writes that the sufferings of this present age are not worth comparing to the glory that is to be revealed to us. The Spirit gives us eyes of faith to see that God is at work, […]

What a blessing it is to be a child of God! In Romans 8, Paul says that we have been given the Spirit of adoption – that is, the Spirit has made us alive in Christ and brought us into God’s family, so that we might call Him “Father.” Four Greek verbs in this passage […]

In Roman 7, Paul describes the war that is the Christian life: the inner being has been brought to new life in Christ, and yet the sinful nature wages war, not wanting to submit to God’s good design. It’s exhausting to agree with God’s Law and yet not be able to carry it out as […]

In Romans 6, Paul teaches us that we have been set free from sin to serve Christ. In Romans 7, he goes on to say that we’ve been set free from the Law through the body of Christ (His fulfilling of the Law and dying for us). That means that God’s Law is no longer […]