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Friday, October 11, 2024

The Self-Destroying Perversity of Pride [Family Worship lesson in Proverbs 11:2–6]

Pastor teaches his family a selection from “the Proverb of the day.” In these five verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that all sin has pride at its root and self-destruction as its fruit.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Monday, June 10, 2024

The Hatefulness of Pride Month [Family Worship lesson in Romans 1:24–32]

Why is perversion of marriage so abominable and alarming? Romans 1:24–32 is an important passage for our current cultural moment. In these nine verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that perversion of marriage is abominable and alarming because being given over to this sin, and its celebration, is a display of being under God’s righteous wrath for refusing to know Him. (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Monday, January 22, 2024

Hearts and Hands in a Holy War for Heaven [2024.01.21 Morning Sermon in Matthew 5:27–30]

King Jesus requires our heart, eye, and hand. He is taking our whole self into the kingdom of heaven, and He enlists us in the war of preparing us to enter.

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Wednesday, December 06, 2023

The Sanctity of Marriage: Holy People, Purified from Perversion [2023.12.03 Evening Sermon in Leviticus 18]

The difference that the Lord makes in His consecrated people was first and foremost displayed in their purity from the idolatry and perversion of the nations.

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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Getting God Right: No Power Over, Apart from, or in Addition to God [2022.08.28 Evening Sermon in Exodus 22:18–20]

There is no power by which one may manipulate God, no power from what God has made except what God Himself gives by the right use of it, and no power in addition to God. It is a mortal offense to act as if there is.

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Friday, August 26, 2022

How Israel's Death Penalty for False Religion Instructs Our Hearts for Our Everyday Life [Family Worship lesson in Exodus 22:18–20]

How did God’s civil law for Israel highlight how abominable idolatry is? Exodus 22:18–20 looks forward to the evening sermon on the coming Lord’s Day. In these three verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that idolatry is not only abominable in itself but leads to other abominations that are uniquely detestable to the LORD. (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Sunday, May 09, 2021

The God of Peace Will Soon Crush Satan under Your Feet (2021.05.09 Morning Sermon in Exodus 1:15–21)

How is it that you can live with joy, and confidence, and zeal, even if you "call a spade a spade" and rightly recognize that Satan has his fingerprints all over what's going on? Because a truly complete perception will recognize, even more, that the LORD has His fingerprints all over what is going on—fingerprints that are inked with the victorious blood of our serpent-crushing Redeemer!

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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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