by Hope Hill Church | Sep 16, 2020 | All Posts, Blog
So sports are back, I guess. Anybody catch the football game this week? I heard that the one team did the thing better than the other team. It was crazy. Or maybe it wasn’t. I have to confess I didn’t watch it (I know you couldn’t tell based on my superb game summary)...
by Hope Hill Church | Aug 19, 2020 | All Posts, Blog
My discipleship group has been talking about what it means to be in Christ. John Stott explains it this way: “The commonest description in the Scriptures of a follower of Jesus is that he or she is a person who is ‘in Christ.’ The expressions ‘in Christ,’ ‘in the...
by Hope Hill Church | Aug 12, 2020 | All Posts, Blog
I didn’t take Latin in school, but I’ve always been fascinated with the language. In fact, I remember an old chain email from back in the day with a list of Latin phrases that I worked hard to memorize. As with most things I work hard to memorize, I promptly forgot it...
by Hope Hill Church | Jul 22, 2020 | All Posts, Blog
Pop quiz: what does the word prodigal mean? If you’re like me, the only context you have for that word is the parable of the prodigal son found in Luke 15. At the end of the story, after the son wastes his inheritance on reckless living, comes to his senses, and...
by Hope Hill Church | Jun 3, 2020 | All Posts, Blog
Martin Luther King Jr. famously wrote in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, “If today’s church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social...
by Hope Hill Church | May 13, 2020 | All Posts, Blog
During community group last week, we were commenting on how long we’ve been coping with this stay-at-home situation and how it feels sometimes like it’s been years. “It’s been fifty-five days,” piped up one group member. “But who’s counting?” For many of us, these...
