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Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Ears to Hear and Hearts to Understand [2024.12.08 Morning Sermon in Matthew 13:9–17]

We must be given a new nature in order to know and trust in Jesus.

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Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Disobeying the Gospel [2024.10.20 Morning Sermon in Matthew 12:22-32]

As the Holy Spirit presents Christ to you in the gospel, harden not your heart, but come to Him and find the rest of forgiveness for your soul.

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Saturday, March 09, 2024

That He Might Have Mercy Upon All (2024.03.06 Midweek Sermon in Romans 11:28–32)

God ordains that all whom He is saving would be shut up in disobedience so that He might have mercy upon all.

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Monday, January 29, 2024

Electing Grace vs Righteous Blinding [Family Worship lesson in Romans 11:7–10]

What has happened to Israel? Romans 11:7–10 prepares us for the sermon in the midweek prayer meeting. In these four verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that the blinded are receiving, even by hearing the Word, as they deserved for rejecting God and His Anointed (Christ). (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Friday, November 24, 2023

Is Predestination Right? [2023.11.22 Midweek Sermon in Romans 9:14–18]

God is both righteous and merciful and compassionate to save from among sinners who all deserve to be hardened.

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Thursday, June 29, 2023

Be Softhearted While You Can [Family Worship lesson in Proverbs 29:1]

Pastor teaches his family a selection from “the Proverb of the day.” In this verse of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us to be softhearted whenever corrected from God’s Word.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

God Displays His Just Wrath (Family Worship lesson in Exodus 8:16–19)

What big lessons are there in this little account of a plague? Pastor leads his family in today’s “Hopewell @Home” passage. Exodus 8:16–19 prepares us for the first serial reading in Morning Public Worship on the coming Lord’s Day. In these four verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us the justness of God’s wrath against sin, the enormity of God’s wrath against sin, the humiliation that we ought to experience over our weakness and wickedness, and the danger of being hardened by our encounters with God rather than softened by them.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Wednesday, August 12, 2020

A Solemn Warning Against Provoking God (Family Worship in 1Samuel 15:24–35)

Pastor leads his family in today's Hopewell @Home Scripture, 1Samuel 15:24–35. Some come to this passage to set v29 against v35 on the issue of the immutability of God's eternal decree. But neither is talking about this, so those who do so miss two critical lessons. (1) There is a point of no return, where God closes the door to repentance, v29. (2) Sin is extremely offensive to the living and holy God, v35. Taken together, this passage is a solemn warning to take sin seriously and not provoke God.

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CURRENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

▫Midweek Prayer Meeting, Wednesday, June 24. 6:30p in the Chapel. (see the Prayer Meeting Folder) We will hear a sermon from Proverbs 25:21–22 then PRAY until around 8 p.m.

▫Songs for public worship on June 28: ARP90B [mp3], ARP5 [mp3], ARP72C [mp3]

▫Children’s Catechism for June 28. Q58 Can you repent and believe in Christ by your own power? No; I can do nothing good without the help of God's Holy Spirit. [CC 58 Simply Explained: “Faith Only by Grace”]

▫Shorter Catechism for June 28. Q35. What is sanctification? Sanctification is the work of God’s free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness. [WSC 35 Simply Explained: “God's Work to Fit Us for Glory”]

▫Memory Verse for June 21, Ephesians 1:22–23, And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

▫Monthly Men’s Breakfast, Saturday, June 27, 7a in the Fellowship Hall

▫Diaconate Meeting, Thursday, July 2.

▫Session Meeting, Wednesday, July 8, 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.

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