5-Week Series: October 2-30

Ever browse social media and feel anxious or depressed? Or read the news and you’re filled with fear or fury? Ever walk into a social gathering and experience outright terror? Or get criticized and long to roll up into a ball or bludgeon the messenger? We all overreact sometimes, but why? These reactions flow from what we believe and why we believe it. God can help you. Let’s learn together what triggers us and why.

"Jesus speaks life to us, so we can speak life to others."

To love well, listen well.

We thrive when we connect with God's people through listening and speaking.

3-week message series: September 11 - 25

All around us, people are hurting, demoralized and need encouragement. Why don’t we say something? Words can be more life-giving than we realize. In the book of Proverbs, we learn encouraging words are like a cup of cool water to a weary soul. God wants to work through us to speak encouraging words to other people. Discover with us how to love people through our words.

September 11:
Pastor Brent Knox live at Hometown-New Hope and online (on video at HC-New Bloomington & Lakeville)

September 18:
Pastor Kitt Guerrier live at Hometown-Lakeville and online (on video at HC-Bloomington & New Hope)

September 25:
Pastor Spencer Bernard live at Hometown-Bloomington and online (on video at HC-New Hope & Lakeville)

We live in a society that has very little margin of life. We overwork, overbook our schedules, and over plan our lives. Stress and anxiety effect the quantity and quality of our sleep. As a result, we walk through life exhausted, tired and often lacking the “fullness of life” God intended for us to experience. Join us next week as we take a closer look at how we “work hard and rest well”.

Most of us think prayer is a good thing, we know we should pray, and we say we believe that prayer works. So why is it that so many of us struggle to pray regularly or with any conviction? Join us as we look at a Biblical example of how to pray in a trial.

"The return of Christ gives us hope in the face of death and wrath."

"Sanctification is the process of becoming who you really are."