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Hope Community Church
The HCC teaching podcast includes weekly teachings from Hope Community Church in Loyalsock, PA. Join us Sundays at 9:00 & 11:00 AM.
The closer we get to God’s design for living as His children, the more we put Him on display and the more joy we experience.
Leading people to Jesus requires that they engage with gospel Truth that addresses their deepest spiritual needs We can’t lead people to a place we don’t often go ourselves.
To live a vibrant missional life, we must deeply learn of people, pursuing authentic biblical friendships that can lead to authentic biblical friendship with Jesus.
A vibrant missional life is secured in and sent out by a life-changing personal relationship with Jesus.
The Spirit-led church has an ever-growing allegiance to Jesus and a confidence in His patient promise to build His church through them.
A Spirit-led mission has a clear goal of planting churches that are led by indigenous leaders who are committed to multiplying the mission of God.
The Spirit-led Church experiences the power of God’s Spirit as they partner with Jesus on His Mission.
The Spirit-led church fights to maintain purity in the doctrine and practice of salvation.
The Spirit-led church through community prepares and sends qualified leaders to advance God’s mission beyond local and regional areas.
The Spirit-led church recognizes when Jesus is orchestrating plans for reaching unbelievers and responds accordingly.
The Spirit-led church lives by faith in the work of the Spirit through people, no matter what my personal feelings or their personal past may be.
The Spirit-led church does not allow difficulty to deter the mission, but instead uses the circumstances as a means to advance the gospel.
The spirit-led church never compromises on the essential truth of the gospel for people; doing it in ways that confront people’s deepest needs, even when the response might not be favorable.
The Spirit-led church knows and embraces Jesus as its true authority; embracing His values, His mission, and His people in His way.
The Spirit-led church cooperates with God by continuing to testify of Jesus even in the face of opposition.
The Spirit-led church has an increasing faith in the person and work of Jesus that motivates and enables it to testify of Him to the watching world.
The Spirit-led church sacrificially witnesses of Jesus by embracing God’s Word in the context of authentic community life.
The Spirit-led church fully and sacrificially embraces the mission of God, through the power of the Spirit, even when its own desire is contrary.
Spirit-led living increases as believers learn HOW TO RELATE TO THE HOLY SPIRIT in the same way as Jesus did.
Spirit-led living increases as believers learn HOW TO RELATE TO THE HOLY SPIRIT in the same way as Jesus did.
Spirit-led living increases as believers embrace the Holy Spirit for WHAT HE DOES as defined by God’s Word.
Spirit-led living increases as believers embrace the Holy Spirit for WHO HE IS as defined by God’s Word.
A Spirit-led lifestyle submits to God’s design for loving others versus the flesh's design for gratifying self.
A Spirit-led lifestyle is demonstrated through authentic, sacrificial love toward all people, even those who cause us the most pain and difficulty.
A Spirit-led lifestyle is sacrificial and embraces our God given functions to build up the Body of Christ.
God graciously blesses the faithful but removes blessing from those who continue in unfaithfulness.
God alone chooses people to advance His mission but only works through those who favorably respond to His promise by faith.
Although the new lifestyle that is available to us is difficult and unpredictable, we have security in the unchanging love of God.
Building relational depth with Jesus comes as we follow him into his mission by walking with the Spirit who guides, encourages, and gives us perspective on our way.
Presenting ourselves to the law paradigm as the means for living in the eternal life is rejecting our relationship with God and will always produce failure and defeat.
The gospel empowers us to live a life free from slavery to sin through our union with Jesus in his death and resurrection.
Our right position in Christ and the corresponding perspective it brings, far outweighs the natural position and perspective that we received through Adam.
Our right position with God offers a perspective change that empowers us to live differently.
God has always offered the free gift of justification to anyone who expresses personal faith in his promise of redemption.
Through the gospel, God freely gives the righteous position of Jesus to all who believe in his sacrifice for them.
Every person on their own merit lacks the righteousness necessary to be accepted by God.
Every person is held accountable for how they have responded to the truth that they know.
Setting the stage for our journey through the book of Romans. We will discuss the author, historical setting, the target audience, and the general aim of the letter.
Living the Jesus Way involves working closely with a small group of people in gracious, patient, and corrective ways to help them love Jesus and live for His mission
Living the Jesus Way is marked by a determination to follow the Spirit into the Father’s will, no matter the extent of the sacrifice.
Living the Jesus Way involves calling and depending on the Father to accomplish His work as we do our work in His mission.
Living the Jesus Way is visible when we pursue, with our whole person, the same love with Jesus as He did with His Father.
Living in the Jesus Way is demonstrated as we bring eternal, resurrection life into the most difficult circumstances of life.
Living the Jesus Way includes seeking fulfillment in life through intentional participation in the mission of God.
Living the Jesus Way is marked by readiness: relationally readiness for gospel impact, readiness to engage mission, and readiness to demonstrate the Father’s grace.
Living in the Jesus Way begins when we empty ourselves and live under the Father’s authority, in His grace & truth, through the life of Jesus.
God has invited US to join Him in his loving rescue mission to restore all people to their original intended image and purpose.
Holy living is based on the often criticized work of God in the past and future, which affirms His patience in using us on mission for Him today.
Holy living is challenged by the subtle attacks of false teachers who lure believers away from the authority of God's Word
Holy living is proportionate to our ability to know, remember, and apply the authoritative Word of God.
Our understanding of Christ’s work for us and in us should motivate us to pursue increasingly holy lives resulting in reward from God.
Taking a closer look at how the principles that we have learned in 1 Peter help motivate and enable us into God's mission.
Holiness is demonstrated through the Church when in submission to Jesus, elders selflessly lead believers, and the believers humbly follow the leading of the elders.
Holiness in suffering results when we choose to continue trusting God in the midst of our suffering.
Holiness in suffering results from pursuing both the attitudes and practical expressions of Christ’s thoughts and actions.
Holiness in suffering is demonstrated by blessing those who are the source of your suffering with Jesus being the prime example.
Holiness in marriage is demonstrated through Christlike humility and sacrifice between a husband and wife.
God’s grace and Jesus’ example motivates us to live and love differently from the rest of the watching world. This is especially true in our posture towards government leaders and those who mistreat us.
We have been uniquely positioned together in Christ so that we can live for the hope of eternity by sacrificing for Him.
When hope in this life is rooted only in the future revealing of grace, it spurs a wonderfully different life.
God’s redemption restores access to a life full of hope and joy for all believers when they embrace an inheritance-producing lifestyle
Our thoughts, desires and actions are all shaped by how we answer these two questions: "Who are you?" and "Why are you here?". We'll investigate these answers in our review of the coMission up to 1 Peter.
God’s grace persists as He deals with His faithless children who struggle on mission. Hear a review of the previous week and the connection between God's grace, communion, and living on His mission.
Listen to testimonies of a few believers who are choosing to participate in God's mission and how He is working in and through them.
Responding to God’s gracious discipline by repositioning our lives under His authority results in God’s ability to restore & lead us.
Responding to God’s gracious discipline by repositioning our lives under His authority results in God’s ability to restore & lead us.
Rejecting the grace of God and His mission always brings pain and an unfulfilled life. Hear testimonies from three people of how this principle has played out in their lives.
An effective discipleship community faithfully makes disciples through the Word in spite of the resulting suffering.
An effective discipleship community faithfully lives as disciples through the Word in spite of the resulting suffering.
An effective discipleship community suffers will by rejecting influencers who oppose the truth of the Gospel.
An effective discipleship community suffers well by addressing internal conflict through knowing and living out the truth of God’s Word.
Effective discipleship communities encourage one another to live boldly for Jesus in the face of trials while guarding their minds from Satan's attacks against the gospel.
Disciplemaking communities must establish a healthy biblical culture for growth to take place. This section addresses a proper biblical view of wealth in light of eternity.
Disciplemaking communities must establish a healthy biblical culture for growth to take place. This section addresses the heresy of materialism and how it combats biblical godliness.
An effective discipleship community honors those in authority both inside the Church and those outside the Church.
An effective discipleship community carefully and intentionally manages the resources it has in order to insure that all efforts are given for missional pursuits. One of the key areas to discern is the care of the those who are in great physical need.
Disciplemaking communities must establish a healthy biblical culture for growth to take place. This section addresses the role of deacons in creating that culture.
Disciplemaking communities must establish a healthy biblical culture for growth to take place. This section addresses the role of elders in creating that culture.
Disciplemaking communities must establish a God-dependent culture of prayer for growth to take place. This section addresses some primary roles for men and women to embrace in establishing that culture.
Gospel living is receiving the gospel for yourself and transferring the gospel onto others. This was modeled through the life of Paul and Timothy.
Being and making disciples requires a commitment to the pure gospel over the many false gospels present today.
To abide in Jesus means to not only consider what He has done, but also what He will do through us. In this teaching we will consider what it means to live in Him for a changed life today in light of eternity.
To abide in the salvation of Jesus means more than merely going to heaven. In this teaching we will consider how we live in the salvation that Jesus provides over the power of sin.
To abide in Jesus, we must know and entrust ourselves to what he has done for us. In this teaching we will consider what it means to live in the salvation that Jesus provides.
To abide in Jesus begins with knowing and embracing who He is. In this teaching we will consider Jesus as Creator and how we can live in Him.
1 Thessalonians 5:12-28 - Effective missional living is empowered by biblical hope which encourages a lifestyle or prayer, humility, and sacrifice to others.
1 Thessalonians - Revelation 21-22 - Effective missional living is empowered by biblical hope and in this section we will look at the time period after the Millennial Kingdom known as the Eternal State.
1 Thessalonians - Revelation 20 - Effective missional living is empowered by biblical hope. In this section we will look at the 1,000-year time period referred to as the Millennial Kingdom where Jesus will reign again on Earth.
1 Thessalonians - Revelation 6-19 - Effective missional living is empowered by biblical hope and in this section we will look at the 7-year time period referred to as the Tribulation where God will judge the sin of mankind.
1 Thessalonians - Daniel 2, 7, 9 - Effective missional living is empowered by biblical hope. In this section we will look at the Old Testament prophecies that foretold of the future events that will culminate God's end game.
1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 - Effective missional living is empowered by biblical hope and this section we begin to learn the object of that hope, specifically the series of events called the Day of the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 - Effective missional living is empowered by biblical hope. In this section we begin to learn the object of that hope, specifically the event called the Rapture.
1 Thessalonians 4:1-12 - Effective missional living is only realized when two key components are equally present and increasing: faithful disciplemakers and humble disciples. In this section we begin to uncover the profile of a humble disciple.
1 Thessalonians 2:17-3:13 - Effective missional living is only realized when two key components are equally present and increasing: faithful disciplemakers and humble disciples. In this section we continue to expand our profile of a faithful disciplemaker.
1 Thessalonians 2:1-16 - Effective missional living is only realized when two key components are equally present and increasing: faithful disciplemakers and humble disciples. In this section we begin to uncover the profile of a faithful disciplemaker.
1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 - 1 Thessalonians provides an encouraging picture of what effective missional living can look like for us, although it comes at a cost. Our starting point will be the fundamental issue of life transformation through the gospel.
In this session we discuss the goal and role of discipline for providing safety in parenting
In this session we discuss the need to establish a biblical vision for molding the hearts of children in parenting. We also seek to establish a clear vision for having our children become faithful disciples of Jesus and disciple makers for Him.
In this session we discuss the necessity of rules and how they protect the physical, emotional, and spiritual nature of our children. To demonstrate God to our kids, we need to apply Godly rules for our children.
In this session we discuss the need to build our parenting on a foundation of grace. To demonstrate God to our kids, grace must be the essential truth that is demonstrated to our children.
In this session we discuss the necessity for us to build truth into the lives of our children. To demonstrate God to our kids, we must consistently model and import truth into their lives.
James 4:13-5:6 - To receive the implanted Word means to seek and embrace the wisdom of God. In this passage James challenges the area of money and gives us God's wisdom on the topic.
James 4:1-12 - To receive the implanted Word means to seek and embrace the wisdom of God. In this passage James challenges the area of worldliness and gives us God's wisdom on the topic.
James 3:1-12 - To receive the implanted Word means to seek and embrace the wisdom of God. In this passage James challenges the area of our speech and gives us God's wisdom on the topic.
James 2:14-26 - To receive the implanted Word means to seek and embrace the wisdom of God. In this passage James challenges us to embrace a living and active faith toward people and gives us God's wisdom on the topic.
James 2:1-13 - To receive the implanted Word means to seek and embrace the wisdom of God. In this passage James challenges to fully embrace impartiality toward all people and gives us God's wisdom on the topic.
James 1:22-27 - James provides a proper response to "various kinds of trials." This response involves putting away our natural reactions to trials and coming under the authority of the "word of truth" that was fully given at the point of salvation. This includes both hearing the word and doing what it says.
James 1:19-21 - James provides a proper response to "various kinds of trials." This response involves putting away our natural reactions to trials and coming under the authority of the "word of truth" that was fully given at the point of salvation. This includes both hearing the word and doing what it says.
James 1:1-18 - God has shown us that spiritual stability in Christ is the only way to embrace the mission of God. In the letter of James we will find that God has also shown us the context where spiritual stability grows within us - through trials. This first begins with how we view trials and also how we respond to them.
James 1:1-18 - God has shown us that spiritual stability in Christ is the only way to embrace the mission of God. In the letter of James we will find that God has also shown us the context where spiritual stability grows within us - through trials. This first begins with how we view trials and also how we respond to them.