Welcome to Hopewell!: What to Do with the Word [Family Worship lesson in Proverbs 22:17

Monday, March 16, 2026

What to Do with the Word [Family Worship lesson in Proverbs 22:17–21]

What should we do with God’s Word? Proverbs 22:17–21 looks forward to the midweek sermon. In these five verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that we should attend to God’s Word as the means by which He makes us to know Him as everything to us.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson) Summary of the transcript of the audio: This passage presents a divine call to intentional, holistic engagement with God’s Word, framing the reception of Scripture as a physical, emotional, and spiritual discipline. It instructs believers to incline their ears, apply their hearts, and internalize God’s word so deeply that it governs their core—shaping thought, emotion, will, and action. The ultimate purpose is not merely personal transformation but the ability to confidently and truthfully speak God’s word to others, rooted in a deep trust in YHWH.

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CURRENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

▫Midweek Prayer Meeting, Wednesday, March 11. 6:30p in the Chapel. (see the Prayer Meeting Folder) We will hear a sermon from Proverbs 22:10–16 then PRAY until around 8 p.m.

▫Children’s Catechism for March 15. Q43 With Whom did God the Father make the covenant of grace? With Christ, His eternal Son. [CC 43 Simply Explained: “Covenanted to God in Christ”]

▫Shorter Catechism for March 15. Q20. Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery? God having, out of His mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a Redeemer. [WSC 20 Simply Explained: “The God Who Is Pleased to Save”]

▫Memory Verse for March 15, Nahum 1:3, YHWH is slow to anger and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked. YHWH has His way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet.

▫Songs for public worship on March 15: ARP45B [mp3], ARP108A [mp3], ARP94A [mp3]

▫Session Meeting, Wednesday, March 18, at 8p.m. in the Pastor’s Study.

▫Monthly Men’s Breakfast, Saturday, March 28, 7a in the Fellowship Hall

▫Church Workday, March 28, 8:30a

▫Diaconate Meeting, Thursday, April 2.

Weekly Schedule: Study, Worship, Fellowship, and Pray with Hopewell!

Each Lord's Day
9:50a - Free full breakfast during…
10a - Sabbath School for all ages
11a - Public Worship (current series: Matthew)
1p - Coffee/Fellowship Time
1p - Catechism Class
1:15p - Shared Food Fellowship (there's always plenty, so come!)
2:50p - Memory Verse Recitations and Song Requests
3:00p - Psalm/hymn Sing
3:45p - Evening Sermon (current series: Song of Songs)

Wednesdays
6:30p in the Chapel - Midweek Prayer Meeting for all ages. We hear a sermon from Proverbs and then join all together in prayer led by men, before splitting into groups and individuals for intercession, thus balancing being led in praying corporately together with giving everyone an opportunity to pray out loud and covering our requests list.

Every Day in Your Home
You are the most important individual on earth in your and your children's spiritual lives!

Scripture teaches us that shepherd-teachers and every other member of the church are given as gifts from Jesus to help us grow up into Him. But there is nothing that anyone else can do that will substitute for daily worship of Him, by those means that He has appointed, through which He works in us by His grace.

The Hopewell at Home daily devotional guide is a weekly publication that comes alongside to facilitate personal and family devotions. Freshly written every week by a pastor who knows those entrusted to his spiritual care (Heb 13:17), it not only enables you to see the meaning of the text by asking simple, inductive questions, but also gives a sample exposition and application for you to use for yourself, as a couple, or as a family.

Other Service, Fellowship, and Worship Opportunities
The ministry of the Gospel at Hopewell focuses especially upon those church activities started and commanded by Christ Himself. While formalized/programmed events can be useful to get us going, our elders encourage us to take the initiative ourselves.

Some examples have included a ladies' book club, sidewalk ministry at Planned Parenthood of Nashville, and a ladies' fellowship tea put on by some of the youngest ladies in the congregation.

What ministries will you be starting, or are you already participating in, that you will use to encourage the rest of the church in walking with the Lord?

Men's Breakfasts
Led by one of our elders, on the 4th Saturday of each month, men ages 1-121 gather for breakfast at 7 a.m. and read and discuss some profoundly helpful Scripture or scriptural book. We’re currently studying Building a Godly Home, v1: A Holy Vision for Family Life by William Gouge—the first volume of a masterfully exposited and applied treatment of Ephesians 5:21–6:9.

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