Hope Missionary Church

Our Mission in Motion

Teams and businesses often use mantras to inspire, to remind, and to define what their mission is.  Likewise, every church has statements or phrases that help define core values, vision, and mission. Hope Church is no different.  Jesus had a clear mission for his disciples, and for His church.  The question is, our we on His mission?  Through this series, we are going to use memorable statements to remind us to keep our eyes focused on the true priorities of Jesus and His church.

In the same way that Jesus served as an ambassador to the greatness and goodness of God, we want to fulfill that role for our world as well. It’s our privilege to be a missionary for Jesus, whether we have to cross an ocean or an alley to tell someone of His love and forgiveness.

Erased - The Presence of the Holy Spirit

In today's message, we'll  learn that, when we receive the Holy Spirit, we are given the responsibility of denying ourselves as His presence moves us to live boldly.

Erased - The Power of the Holy Spirit

In today's message, we'll discuss the fact that the New Testament church was completely dependent upon the power of the Holy Spirit. It wasn’t about the show. It wasn’t about the performance. It was the power of the Holy Spirit. Sometimes we are so concerned about the what instead of the how. When we daily invite the Spirits presence into our lives, we experience true transformation.

Erased - The Promise of the Holy Spirit

In today's message, we'll explore the promise of the Holy Spirit. The promise of the Holy Spirit is a promise of true life. He is our promised Advocate, filling our lives permanently with His presence and unleashing us to live out of the promises of God.  He renews us, gifts us and empowers us.

Erased - The Person of the Holy Spirit

Throughout the Old and New Testaments, we see the person of the Holy Spirit being present on and in people to fulfill Gods plan for humanity. The Spirit plays a distinct role in the Trinity that cannot be ignored.

9-4-2022 Self Insufficient - A Posture Of Power

Pastor Geoff

Self-Insufficient - Don’t Give Up On God

All of us have some area in life where we are tired, maybe a little bit frustrated, maybe discouraged, or disappointed, maybe where we want to see some progress. But it’s just been slow. We feel like giving up, not only with things around us, but even with God Himself.

Could it be that maybe at the very core, that you are giving up on God, because you’ve asked God to do some things and He hasn't done them. You’ve asked God to fix some things, and He hasn't fixed them.

The Christians in Corinth—were feeling this way.  They were disillusioned. This is all brand new to them. And I’m just sure that they thought, “Hey, if I follow Jesus, then the path is going to be clear. If God is my Father, then things in life are going to get easier, not harder.”

Self-Insufficient - Walking With a Limp

In part 2 of our Self-Insufficient series, we'll examine the story of Jacob and his tendency to try to fix or run away from his problems instead of running to God.

Self-Insufficient - Broken Cisterns

Broken Cisterns
Jeremiah 2:13

Jeremiah documented God’s heartache as He watched His beloved people pursue emptiness while He was offering them endless fulfillment. Instead of choosing God and running toward the life-giving water of His presence, His people poured their energy and resources into futile, broken ambitions. Those cracked cisterns were never going to be able to sustain or fulfill God’s people, and yet they continued to put their hope in emptiness. They looked to barren wells to provide what only God could give them.

For many of us, as we navigate the current reality of inflation, national turmoil, what is being revealed many of the empty wells we’ve been digging. For years, we’ve poured into our jobs, our relationships, our hobbies, our status, our savings, and every other thing that we’ve hoped could satisfy us. And now we see more clearly that those wells have left us dry and thirsty. As we move forward into a new season, we don’t have to spend any more time digging broken cisterns. We can drink deeply from the living water that we’ve been offered through Christ.

Summer in the Psalms - To Know and Be Known

At our core, we all have a desire both to know others and to be known by them. That is what a relationship is. Seeking and being sought. Knowing and being known. Accepting and being accepted. Loving and being loved. Pouring into someone else, having them pour into you.  

We sometimes treat God in the same way. We approach seeking God like He is someone that we want to know, but we see Him as someone, who seems distant and disinterested in who we are.  We act as if we have to gain His attention or His approval.

Other times we focus on the immensity of God because we are worried about putting God in a box. The truth is that all the great and powerful attributes of God sometimes lead us to forget His personal nature. We spend time focusing on the fact that He is the all-powerful, all-knowing, creator of the universe and therefore so much bigger than it. 

The message of scripture is that God calls us into relationship. A chief attribute of being in relationship with God is, just like human relationships, knowing and being known. Galatians 4:9 says, “Now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God.”

Psalm 139 praises God for His amazing power, but it does so by showing how that power is used by God to know us. The result is a psalm of praise for who God is, a psalm of love for being cared for by Him, and a psalm of devotion to God in response to His devotion to us. The whole psalm could be summarized by v17: “How precious are your thoughts to me, O God.” 

God knows You Because He Sees You (v1-6)
God Knows You Because He is Near You (v7-12)
God Knows You Because He Made You (v13-18)
Our Response to God’s Knowledge (v19-24)