Door of Hope Northeast

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What's Door of Hope Northeast about?

Door of Hope Northeast is a simple church pursuing the risen Jesus in deep community in and for Portland, Oregon. This podcast collects our weekly teachings, key ministry updates, and other important news related to the life of our community.

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Door of Hope Northeast episodes:

06.24.2024
The Return of the King
Revelation 19-22 - The ending to our series on the Kingdom has to end where the whole biblical story does: with the return of Jesus and the final consummation of heaven, earth, and the Kingdom of God. Amidst all the...
06.17.2024
Ideologies and Idols
John 19:12-16 - Political ideologies tend to become all-consuming systems of thought that bend everything to their worldview and assumptions. In their own way, they can become similar to and examples of idolatry, biblically defined. In this passage, we see...
06.10.2024
The Sword, The Vote and The Truth
John 18:33-38 - After His arrest, Jesus was questioned by Roman governor Pontius Pilate. Their conversation--another one to see just what kind of King Jesus was claiming to be--revealed much about the nature of the Kingdom of God. Its power...
06.03.2024
A Poem of the Kingdom
Psalm 145 is a beautiful poetic reflection on the Kingdom of God from the archetypical human king: David himself. In revisiting the story of David and his relationship to the throne of Israel--the good, the bad, and the ugly--we are...
05.27.2024
Parties, Taxes, and the Coinless Christ
Matthew 22:15-22 - Jesus's enemies knew that one way to kill his influence was to make him publicly answer a hot-button "gotcha" question. In their day there were few hotter than the question of whether or not Jews should pay...
05.20.2024
...Empowered by the Very Spirit of God
Acts 2:1-21 - Pentecost was primarily about two things: First, the creation of a trans-national, multi-ethnic kingdom people of God and, second, the creation of a supernaturally-empowered kingdom people of God. In part two of our look at this amazing...
05.13.2024
...Among Every Tribe, Tongue, and Nation...
Acts 2:1-21 - The kingdom embassy we call the church was birthed on the day of Pentecost right after Jesus ascended to His heavenly throne. The day was a dramatic step forward in God’s plan to see His rule extended...
05.06.2024
Our King's Vision of the Good, Flourishing, Abundant Life...
Matthew 5-7 - The sermon on the mount is the most influential sermon ever preached. It is the longest recorded unbroken teaching we have from Jesus's ministry. But what is it? We argue that it is an exposition of Jesus's...
04.29.2024
Kingdom Ambassadors in Exile
2 Corinthians 5:17-21 - Theologians talk about the Kingdom of God as an already/not yet reality. Jesus has inaugurated His Kingdom and reigns among His people today while we still await his second coming when the Kingdom will come in...
04.22.2024
The Cross and The Crown pt. 2
Mark 8:27-9:1 - After teaching and ministering among his disciples, Jesus put the question of questions to them: “Who do you say that I am?” Peter gave the right answer (The messiah! The king!) but didn’t understand what it meant...
04.17.2024
The Cross and The Crown pt. 1 (Good Friday 2024)
Matthew 27:27-31 - This sermon was not technically part of the "One King and One Kingdom" series as it was given on Good Friday 2024, but it is exploring the same themes and is a kind of counterpart to the...
04.15.2024
The Gospel of the Kingdom of God
Matthew 4:23-25 - An election year is a great time to reconsider Jesus’s teaching about the kingdom of God and the radical call to bend the knee to Him as king. We begin with a look at Jesus’s gospel message:...
04.01.2024
The Love That Even Death Fears (Easter 2024)
Romans 8:31-39 - We conclude our time in Romans chapter 8 with Paul's incredible exclamation point on the beautiful gospel truths he has been unpacking throughout. We couldn't say it better than Paul himself: "For I am sure that neither...
03.25.2024
Bring Your Shortcomings
Romans 8:26-30 - Through this passage we will focus on our relationship with the Holy Spirit during the process of sanctification. Paul helps us remember how our shortcomings, baggage, and trauma from the shrapnel of the fallen world impact our...
03.18.2024
The Groaning, Healing, and Glory of All Creation
Romans 8:18-25 - In a world where suffering abounds, we desperately need a hope that can both dignify our pain and overcome it. In this way the gospel of Jesus supplies what nothing else can, both for humanity and the...
03.11.2024
Beloved Children of the Loving Father
Romans 8:12-17 - In this passage we learn about the glorious truth of God adopting believers into his family. The cross of Jesus enables us to become intimate daughters and sons of the God of the universe with all of...
03.04.2024
Living in the Spirit
Romans 8:5-11 - The second part of Romans 8 explores what it means to walk by the Spirit rather than by the flesh. This side of the cross, we have access to a life lived in step with the Spirit's...
02.25.2024
The Cross, The Spirit & The End of Condemnation
Romans 8:1-4 - This week we continue through Lent into Resurrection Sunday with a consideration of Romans chapter 8, which is widely considered one of the most gospel-rich, beautiful, and hopeful chapters in the entire Bible. The first four verses...
02.19.2024
The Offering of a Living Sacrifice (Sacrifice as Worship)
Romans 12:1-2 - We conclude our series considering a remaining major theme relating to worship across the Bible: the theme of sacrifice. As Jesus fulfilled the requirements of the temple sacrificial system Himself, he did so as an act of...
02.12.2024
Habits of the Heart (Liturgy as Worship)
1 Corinthians 11:17-34 - Every church (and every person) lives with certain habits, traditions, and rituals—also know as liturgies. These play a role in both expressing and shaping our loves and desires. Properly understood and practiced, they too become important...
02.05.2024
If God Is That Good, Let Us Eat! (Feasting as Worship)
As surprising as it sounds to many, our relationship to food is an important potential avenue for worship. For most, fasting and participating in the Lord’s Supper come to mind—but an often-neglected theme across the pages of scripture is feasting....
01.29.2024
Whole-Person Poetic-Melodic Exclamations (Singing as Worship)
Ephesians 5:18-19 - After considering the big picture perspective on worship in the Bible, we now turn our attention to worship through singing, in particular. God’s people have always been a singing people, but why? Why does God command and...
01.22.2024
Anywhere in Spirit and Truth
John 4:19-26 - Jesus brought with Him a new understanding of worship that really was a step back toward the way of worship "in the beginning." Answering a question about where one must go to worship, Jesus answered that genuine...
01.09.2024
The One Who Is Worthy
John 3:16-21 - Everyone worships. The question is "Who or what do they worship?" In this 6-part series, we will be considering the nature of Christian worship of the triune God both in the wide-angled big picture and in the...
12.19.2023
The True and Lasting King (Advent 2023)
Matthew 2:1-12 - What's underneath the human quest for power, and how does the story of Herod and the wise men show us the fundamental choice we face in life? As we examine an oft-repeated story with fresh eyes, we...
12.11.2023
Emmanuel (Advent 2023)
Matthew 1:18-25 - Matthew's account of the birth of Jesus focuses on the relational drama between Mary and Joseph receiving unthinkable news: the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. This is far from an incidental reality--it is...
12.04.2023
The Kind of Story We Find Ourselves In (Advent 2023)
Matthew 1:1-17 - This year for Advent we'll be considering Matthew's account of the birth of Jesus. In this story, we find the key anchor points that help define both the big-picture story of humanity and structures of our individual...
11.27.2023
Exhort and Stir Up One Another, Daily, Together
Hebrews 3:12-13; 10:19-25 - To conclude our series on the mutuality commands, we consider two final commands which speak to the fact that the believers in Jesus are meant to be active participants in the spiritual lives of one another....
11.20.2023
Honor and Submit to One Another
Romans 12:9-10; Ephesians 5:18-21 - To honor something is to correctly appraise its value and then respond accordingly. The people of the family of God are to build a culture of honor that stands in stark contrast to the...
11.13.2023
Encourage, Teach, and Admonish One Another
1 Thessalonians 5:11; Colossians 3:16 - The New Testament's vision for life in the church has much to say about how we speak to one another. At the heart of our speech is the call to speak the mind, heart,...
11.06.2023
Serve and Carry the Burdens of One Another
Galatians 5:13-16; 6:1-3 - Jesus himself said that he came "not to be served, but to serve." Therefore, it makes perfect sense that a call to take the posture of a servant: to practically meet the needs, seek the flourishing,...
10.30.2023
Confess to and Pray for One Another
James 5:13-18 - At first glance, the commands to confess our sins to one another and to pray for one another may seem a little detached from the central call to love one another, but they are an avenue into...
10.23.2023
Forbear and Forgive One Another
Colossians 3:12-14 - In this passage Paul gives two especially difficult mutuality commands: to forbear with one another and to forgive one another. These both presuppose that disagreements, discord, annoyance, frustration, burdens, pain, misunderstandings, and sins against one another both...
10.16.2023
The Life of Love in the Family of God
John 13:31-35 - In this sermon we begin a new teaching series considering the "one another" commands of the New Testament that define the kinds of relationships that are meant to make up the church, the new family of God...
10.09.2023
An Answer to Anxiety
Philippians 4:4-7 - Anxiety may come and go, but in this life it seems to touch everyone from time to time. In this sermon, we consider the unique resources the gospel provides to deal with anxiety and experience God's peace...
10.02.2023
Deeper for the City
Jeremiah 29:1-14 - Since its beginning, Door of Hope has been focused on ministry to the city of Portland. Our city pillar reinforces our community values as a relational center of gravity, it defines our area of local missional focus,...
09.25.2023
Deeper with Simplicity
Matthew 6:25-34 - The "simplicity" pillar has historically been the most challenging to define for our church, though it grounds much of our ministry philosophy. In Jesus's words in Matthew 6, we find a helpful grid for maintaining a simple...
09.18.2023
Deeper into Community
Acts 2:36-47 - This week we consider a vision for pursuing greater depth in community together. Following the model of the earliest church in Acts 2, we want to strive to be a cross-shaped community, a gathering and scattering community,...
09.11.2023
Deeper through the Cross
1 Corinthians 1:18-25 - Each fall is an opportunity to regather our church and commit ourselves to a fresh vision for another ministry year. This year, it seems God has been stirring the heart of our community to pursue something...
09.04.2023
And Should We Not Love that Great City?
Jonah 4:1-11 - The conclusion to Jonah is where the punchlines are given, the clarity is brought to what has come before, and it’s hearers are left with a piercing question we must answer: Should we not love that great...
08.28.2023
Glimpses of God in the Worst of Places
Jonah 3:1-10 - In Jonah 3, God commissions Jonah to go to Nineveh again and this time he goes. He preaches a shockingly short message and to everyone's surprise, the entire city repents! In these verses we see the compelling...
08.21.2023
Humiliating, Necessary, Beautiful Grace
Jonah 1:17-2:10 - After Jonah is thrown into the sea at his own request, everything changes. After getting what he thought he wanted, Jonah ends up in a place of desperation. He calls out to God for the first time...
08.14.2023
The Worst Prophet for the Worst City
Jonah 1:1-16 - The book of the prophet Jonah is in equal parts funny and tragic, illuminating and strange. Our superficial familiarity with it can keep us from recognize the profound, cutting teaching it contains. At its heart, it's a...
07.31.2023
Toward A Deeper Joy Than We Can Now Imagine
Revelation 21:1-22:5 - We conclude "God of Every Good Thing" with the consummation of the themes we've been exploring as well as the consummation of the entire biblical story itself--the revelation of the New Heavens and New Earth. In this...
07.24.2023
Gifts of Cities
Genesis 1:28, 4:1-11; Revelation 21:1-2 - Theologians often speak of cities as magnifying glasses or multipliers. When many people are gathered together, both their strengths and their weaknesses are compounded. And while it is fair to consider the brokenness evident...
07.17.2023
Hope in a Dark World
Psalm 91 - A standalone teaching looking to Psalm 91 for hope in God amidst the struggles of life. A sermon by John C. Hughes.
07.10.2023
Gifts of Science
Genesis 8:22 - Are faith in Jesus and honest scientific inquiry in irreparable conflict? Many think so, but it need not be the case. In science, rightly understood and practiced, we find another good gift from God that can illuminate...
07.03.2023
Gifts of the Arts
Exodus 31:1-11 - How should we think about the experiences we've all had with human art? In this sermon, we consider a brief theology of art, the gifts of art, and a few practices for connecting with God through art....
06.26.2023
Gifts of Work
1 Thessalonians 4:9-12 - Work is a significant part of life, but it is all too easy to dismiss it as divorced from meaningful spiritual things, a necessary evil, a slog, or a punishment of some type. Work is often...
06.19.2023
Gifts of Rest
Matthew 11:28-30 - Rest is a major theme of the Bible from God's initial rest after the six days of creation to the future rest that will attend the New Heavens and the New Earth. Today, genuine rest can seem...

What's Door of Hope Northeast about?

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Door of Hope Northeast episodes:

The Return of the King

Ideologies and Idols

The Sword, The Vote and The Truth

A Poem of the Kingdom

Parties, Taxes, and the Coinless Christ

...Empowered by the Very Spirit of God

...Among Every Tribe, Tongue, and Nation...

Our King's Vision of the Good, Flourishing, Abundant Life...

Kingdom Ambassadors in Exile

The Cross and The Crown pt. 2

The Cross and The Crown pt. 1 (Good Friday 2024)

The Gospel of the Kingdom of God

The Love That Even Death Fears (Easter 2024)

Bring Your Shortcomings

The Groaning, Healing, and Glory of All Creation

Beloved Children of the Loving Father

Living in the Spirit

The Cross, The Spirit & The End of Condemnation

The Offering of a Living Sacrifice (Sacrifice as Worship)

Habits of the Heart (Liturgy as Worship)

If God Is That Good, Let Us Eat! (Feasting as Worship)

Whole-Person Poetic-Melodic Exclamations (Singing as Worship)

Anywhere in Spirit and Truth

The One Who Is Worthy

The True and Lasting King (Advent 2023)

Emmanuel (Advent 2023)

The Kind of Story We Find Ourselves In (Advent 2023)

Exhort and Stir Up One Another, Daily, Together

Honor and Submit to One Another

Encourage, Teach, and Admonish One Another

Serve and Carry the Burdens of One Another

Confess to and Pray for One Another

Forbear and Forgive One Another

The Life of Love in the Family of God

An Answer to Anxiety

Deeper for the City

Deeper with Simplicity

Deeper into Community

Deeper through the Cross

And Should We Not Love that Great City?

Glimpses of God in the Worst of Places

Humiliating, Necessary, Beautiful Grace

The Worst Prophet for the Worst City

Toward A Deeper Joy Than We Can Now Imagine

Gifts of Cities

Hope in a Dark World

Gifts of Science

Gifts of the Arts

Gifts of Work

Gifts of Rest

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