Hoadley Evangelical Missionary Church

Jon, director of Covenant Bay Bible Camp, begins with the stories of two campers: one came to faith at camp from a home that didn’t follow Jesus; the other grew up in a Christian home and has always followed him. We have the answer in Jesus, he says, yet we look at a broken world sometimes with compassion and sometimes with fear. People, he reminds us, are never the enemy. Reading Luke 15:1–7, Jon shows how the sinners, the Pharisees

Jordan and Andrea Scotland are missionaries sent and supported by Hoadley Church. Jordan brings an update and shares a message from Matthew 13. The yeast is the disciples. The woman is the Holy Spirit. The flour is everything around the disciples. The dough is the world. The mixing is working the yeast into the dough, translating to the Holy Spirit sending the disciples into the world.

Jen shares a powerful testimony of how God has transformed her understanding of faith and trust in God, and that her story is not over yet. We do not need to know the plan in order to trust the Author of the plan.

This was a baptism Sunday, so I preached only the first half of this message to make room for the testimonies. I’ll pick up the rest when the series continues in November. Below is an automatically generated transcript. The dwelling place of God Where does God live? If you think about where God lives, what do you think of? I think a lot of us imagine—up there somewhere, right? We lift our hands up, we look up. We think God

Overview In this message from the Acts series, Tamera Goller takes up Acts 1:12–26, the disciples’ stretch of waiting between Jesus’ ascension and the coming of the Holy Spirit, and reads it through the lens of liminal space: the uncomfortable in-between of “no longer where you were and not yet where you are going.” Rather than rushing to fix or fill that space, she invites listeners to treat waiting as a time of receiving, meeting God, scripture, and one another with

Gene Whitehead preaches from 1 Kings 18:1–19:7. Elijah has just watched fire fall on Mount Carmel, yet one threat from Jezebel sends him running for his life, until he sits down under a broom tree and tells God he’s had enough. How does someone go from that high to that low? Gene names what sets us up for despair: exhaustion, threats that are all too real, and emotional brokenness. He reminds us that Elijah was as human as we are.

Sermon Transcript We’re in the early parts of a sermon series I’ve titled Witness: Sent by the King with the Power of the Spirit into the World.The series tracks the story of the early church as told in the book we call the Acts of the Apostles. That’s the traditional title. It could be titled other things, but we know what we’re talking about when we call it that. Not many of the apostles, the original followers of Jesus, are actually

Sermon Manuscript: The world recently lost a great poet named Wendell Berry. He passed away two weeks ago at the age of 92. From 1979 until 2023, he wrote Sabbath poems. The inspiration for these poems came from his Sunday morning walks through his 117 acre homestead on the western bank of the Kentucky River. One of his final Sabbath poems, which he wrote I think at the age of 90, began this way, “I slept, and in my sleep

Sermon Manuscript: It was the morning after the Sabbath.  The third day after Jesus was crucified.  His lifeless body was in a tomb with a heavy stone rolled in front of the entrance.  Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and some other women went with spices to prepare his body for a proper burial. These women were followers of Jesus. When they got to the tomb, they found that his body was missing.  Two angels appeared and told

Sermon Manuscript: The Bible is the story of a God who makes promises and keeps them.  One of the promises he made was to a particular group of people known as the Israelites.  The promise is repeated multiple times, the first being in Genesis 12:1–3:  Now the Lord said to Abram,  “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.  I will make of you a great nation, and I