Hope Bible Church of Tampa

Do you want to be all that God wants you to be- Do you want to be a growing and godly Christian- Do you want to be a positive, forward-looking person- Do you want more joy and peace- Do you want to love God more- If so, one thing that will help is having hope. Many Christians are lacking in hope, and don't even know what they are missing. They are focused on the present, on what is happening today, but they are not thinking about the future God has planned out for them. And they don't see that having this hope, that being excited about God's plans for their future, will help them be more fruitful and successful in the present.--How do we define hope- Hope is not a present reality but an expectation of a future reality. Hope, as a noun, is what you need to know about your future and, as a verb, it's what you need to believe about your future. It's knowing and seeing, by faith, God's plans for your future. It's what you don't have now but are confident God will give you in the ages to come. It's believing that God will continually show you His great love after you leave earth and are in heaven. -Today's Scripture reading is Psalm 47.

The focus of today's message is on how we can comfort others in their sickness or long term debilitation. 3. The following struggles that will be addressed are meant to 1- help you identify the sufferers trials and 2- to give you some responses that you may be able to share when you are in a situation that you personally or someone you are talking with needs some help dealing with them.

This is a very personal message- forged through years of trying to understand why God would allow my wife, Vickie, to endure decades of disease that has kept her from doing things that she once loved to do. At times, it has appeared to us that God was sidelining her and keeping her from fully using the very spiritual gifts that He gave to her. By the end of these two messages, I desire that you will have joined us in our journey to draw close to the God of our comfort and have the hope you need to rejoice in the midst of long-term suffering. During these messages, I want to help you understand that 1- God IS the God of all comfort and 2- He wants you to glorify Him by reflecting that reality in your life and the lives of those around you. This foundational truth and its application is so clearly articulated by the Holy Spirit through Paul in 2 Corinthians 1-3-7. -I also give credit to the book -A Book Of Comfort for Those In Sickness- by P.B. Power and republished by Banner of Truth Trust for its encouragement to me to seek God as the God of Comfort.

Today's guest speaker shares words of encouragement to help us stand firm and steadfast in the midst of a culture and times that go against the plain truth revealed in Scripture. Today's text is 2 Thessalonians 2-13ff.

This is the third part of the series on the the three personal natures of God. It finishes with God, The Father. Today's Scripture reading is Matthew 6-1-13.

On this Pentecost Sunday, the message is about God, the Holy Spirit, as it honors the occasion of the Holy Spirit filling the disciples with newfound boldness at the onset of the church in the first century.

Today is our first live service since the COVID19 restrictions have been modified. Today's message by Steve Hogan is -Being Spiritually and Emotionally Strong-. We hope that it encourages you during this time.