Living Hope
How has knowing God changed you? Todays scripture from 2 Peter:1-11 points out that “His divine power has been given us everything we need for life through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.” Wow…. everything we need… everything. Do you believe that? Does your life bare testimony to [...]
Living Stone
What does it take to be a “living stone”? When we were on our first missionary assignment in Holland, we were invited to go sightseeing by one of the local people we were working with. We went to the city of Delft, which is a very interesting and picturesque city in Holland. One of the [...]
How do we measure up?
Wrapping up the “Good Measure” series this week…we are challenged to “use” what we receive. Pastor Brent’s football illustration was helpful, asking, “Are you a player or are you a spectator?” He mentioned that in a church our size it is easy to just come and take it all in and assume that “someone else [...]
The Measure of Love
The words “Eros”, “Filia”, & “Agape” from the Greek text for love have always fascinated me. To think that we as English speaking people, and most of the world, for that matter, appear to have only one word to measure this deepest of our emotions is unfortunate. After hearing Pastor Sean’s message taken from Luke [...]
The Measure of Love
As I listened to Pastor Sean last weekend it occurred to me how subtle the enemy is in his ways and how easily we can slip into judgment of others as a result. It’s almost an unconscious response on our part to judge others but it is, at the core, that old original sin of [...]
The Measure of a Church
All of us have our own preconceived ideas of what church should look like. Have you ever paused to consider that some of those ideas may not be from God? God’s measure of the church is for it to bring His message of reconciliation and love to this broken and hurting world. Sounds simple enough. [...]
The Path: Intimacy
Well, this is a first for me…I listened to the sermon online! “The Powers that Be” had my name on the list this weekend to write a post for the blog…but, I was gone all weekend! So…now there really is NO excuse to miss the teachings of God through our Hope Point Pastors…believe me, I [...]