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I See You

A Diverse City “I See You” Ethnicity is a big deal. Cultural backgrounds are significant and a huge part of who we are. The other day we were watching Olympic curling at my dad’s 70th Birthday party, because why not and the Americans were curling against the Swiss. Curling is weird And we lost. I wasn’t mad I was sort of excited because my dads parents paren...

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Fighting the Real Enemy

Are you fighting the real enemy? ...

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A Decade is Long Time

On the first day of 2010, I was single, wanting to throw in the towel and quit, at the end of myself and ministry. That month God sent me my future husband, I got married and my dad prayed at our August ceremony that God would expand our tent and increase our impact like that of Jabez in the Old Testament. It always stuck out to me because it was such an unusual prayer fr...

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Reinforcement is Vital Vital Vital

Reinforcement is vital. Sometimes it is the only way that we can remember what we have been taught and the same is true of Hope Extreme students....

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You are More than Valuable

You are More than Valuable Perhaps you remember the old Christmas Classic It's A Wonderful Life? All George has is a fifteen-thousand-dollar life insurance policy, but with only five hundred dollars equity. Mr. Potter says "You're worth more dead than alive." George goes to Mr. Martini's tavern and starts drinking, and then praying for divine guidance. His friends, includ...

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When Salt Loses it Saltiness

Are You Salt and Light? Jesus was preaching the sermon on the mount and this is some of the first teaching we see from. As the crowds gather around him we see him preaching from the mountainside to reach the crowds of people. After preaching through the beatitudes (the attitudes of life that we are to have) we see him start with this teaching. Matthew 5:13-16 Salt and L...

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Willing to Pray

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Are You Willing to Pray? One of the most significant reversals in the history of the Christian faith took place in America during the 1780's in America just as the new nation was defining its independent identity and scripting is Constitution. Drunkenness was epidemic, city streets were lawless at night and the church appeared to be in terminal decline. John Marshal wrote...

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We Gather to Scatter

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We Gather to Scatter The two ways we Gather here at Hope Community(and we think it quite biblical by looking at the ministry of Jesus and following His example) 1. Sunday Mornings in Crowds The idea starts in Genesis, because every biblical idea and thought process does.It is not good that the man should be alone. (Genesis 2:18) And so God gave Adam to Eve. And then th...

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Simply Obey

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Simply Obey Throughout the bible and since the beginning of time man has been given the test of obedience. It started with a man named Adam and his wife Eve. God put them to the test to see if they were going to be obedient to what He commanded them. Genesis 3:16-17 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the...

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Our Adoption Story

Our Forever Home 1 Corinthians 2:7-9 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those...

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