Welcome to Hopewell!: Conflict

Showing posts with label Conflict. Show all posts

Saturday, December 07, 2024

How to Be a Man That God Hates [2024.12.04 Midweek Sermon in Proverbs 6:12–19]

God hates the manipulative busy body who sows strife.

(click here to DOWNLOAD video/mp3/pdf files of this sermon)

Monday, December 02, 2024

God Hates Busybodies (So Be Busy with Good) [Family Worship lesson in Proverbs 6:12–19]

Why is laziness so bad? Proverbs 6:12–19 looks forward to the sermon in this week’s midweek meeting. In these eleven verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that those who aren’t busy with good become busybodies, whom God hates. (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Saturday, April 13, 2024

Treasuring Holiness (and Holy Ones) Together [Family Worship lesson in Matthew 7:1–6]

How does treasuring holiness shape our relationships? Matthew 7:1–6 prepares us for the morning sermon on the Lord’s Day. In these six verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that treasuring our own holiness humbles us and sweetens us to be helpful to others who are treasuring holiness.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Thursday, January 25, 2024

What Strife and Spiritual Adultery Have to Do with One Another [Family Worship lesson in James 4:1–5]

Why is strife so bad? James 4:1–5 prepares us for the second serial reading in public worship on the Lord’s Day. In these five verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that strife exposes that we have placed desires not only above other people but above God.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Friday, June 16, 2023

Wisdom to T.H.I.N.K. Before You Speak [Family Worship lesson in Proverbs 15:1–2]

Pastor teaches his family a selection from “the Proverb of the day.” In these two verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that wisdom includes not just knowledge, but also skill in the right and helpful use of that knowledge.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Monday, July 12, 2021

Treasuring One Another As the Lord’s Treasure (2021.07.11 Evening Sermon in Philippians 4:2–3)

When relationships break down in the church, we must urge and help one another to have the same mind—the mind of Christ in which we treasure one another as the Lord's treasure.[clicking the stream title will take you through to a page at which you can download the audio/pdf]

Thursday, February 07, 2019

190207FW 2Cor 1:23-2:11 - Christ's Stops Satan through Our Fellowship

An imperfect, but hopefully helpful, example of a family worship lesson in 2Corinthians 1:23-2:11

Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

CURRENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

▫Midweek Prayer Meeting, Wednesday, August 12. 6:30p in the Chapel. (see the Prayer Meeting Folder) We will hear a sermon from Proverbs 26:20–22 then PRAY until around 8 p.m.

▫Songs for public worship on August 16: ARP107DE [mp3], ARP60B [mp3], ARP40A [mp3]

▫Children’s Catechism for August 16. Q65 What are they? The offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king. [CC 65 Simply Explained: “Christ's Three Offices”]

▫Shorter Catechism for August 16. Q42. What is the sum of the Ten Commandments? The sum of the Ten Commandments is to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind; and our neighbor as ourselves. [WSC 42 Simply Explained: “The Sum of the Ten Commandments”]

▫Memory Verse for August 16, Ephesians 3:7of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power.

▫Monthly Men’s Breakfast, Saturday, August 23, 7a in the Fellowship Hall

▫Diaconate Meeting, Thursday, September 3.

▫Session Meeting, Wednesday, September 9, at 8p.m. in the Pastor’s Study.

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: Nahum)
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.

// Required code BLB.Tagger.DarkTheme = true;