Category: Worship

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, […]