Category: Worship

Today, Hope welcomes special guest Pastor Timothy Kinne. His message is “Are You Able?” based on Mark 10:35-45. 8:00 Traditional Service 10:27 Contemporary Service Scripture quotations are taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE ®, Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. Liturgical […]

John 3:14-21 provides us with the last portion of Jesus’ interaction with Nicodemus, in which He draws our attention back to the event of God’s people dying in the wilderness and needing His saving intervention. Jesus compares Himself to the bronze serpent: He is the one lifted up in the midst of a dying world, […]

When Jesus cleanses the temple in John 2:13-22, He is attacking a practice that privileges insiders (Jewish worshipers) over outsiders (Gentiles who believed in God and came to worship at the temple). Jesus asserts His authority to do this with the veiled claim that He is the true temple of God, the One through whom […]

In our normal life’s experience, keeping and saving go together. We save our money by keeping it in the bank or in another investment. We save up the food grown in a garden by canning it and keeping it on a shelf. But when it comes to our lives – and above all, our life […]

The theme of testing or temptation runs through all of the readings today. In the Old Testament, it is Abraham being tested. In the Gospel, it is Jesus. In the Epistle, Christians in general are being addressed. Because Jesus has won the war – in the wilderness, at the cross, through His resurrection – we […]