The little town Bethlehem appears throughout the bible. It's known as a place of hospitality and kindness. It's a place where outsiders and the marginalised are looked after. It's a place of refuge and a place of fruitfulness. It's a place where refugees like Rahab find shelter and the desperate like Ruth find food. It's a place where redemption and restoration are found.

It's not a big, powerful, political city, it doesn't carry much kudos among world leaders, kings and princes. It's not an economic hub or philisophical gathering place. But it is the place where God chose to send his one and only son to be born in a manger.

On Sunday 11th December at 4pm, Hope Church celebrated our Carol Service, 'O Little town of Bethlehem'. During this service we sang some traditional Christmas carols and heard more about this place, Bethlehem and how it echo's all that Jesus came to do. You can catch up with that talk here on the podcast, or watch the whole thing on our YouTube channel. search Hope Church Guildford in YouTube to find it.

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Stuart finished our preaching series in 2 Corinthians chapter 12 and 13. In the letter of 2 Corinthians, the Apostle Paul is writing to the Christians in Corinth to help them focus on what’s really important as they meet and serve together as a church. Giving himself as a prime example, Paul explains how God delights to use weak and imperfect people for His work. As we look at this fascinating book this Autumn, we will see how God wants to give us confidence and joy as we serve Him in the midst of trials.

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In 2 Corinthians chapter 11 we see different kinds of boasting. Malcolm continues our preaching series by showing us the importance of holding onto gospel truths and trusting in the grace and power of Jesus - that's what we should boast about.

In the letter of 2 Corinthians, the Apostle Paul is writing to the Christians in Corinth to help them focus on what’s really important as they meet and serve together as a church. Giving himself as a prime example, Paul explains how God delights to use weak and imperfect people for His work. As we look at this fascinating book this Autumn, we will see how God wants to give us confidence and joy as we serve Him in the midst of trials.

If you would like to know more about us, you can visit our website at HopeChurchGuildford.com and contact us via email at [email protected]

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Chris continues our preaching series in 2 Corinthians chapter 10. In this chapter Paul takes time to defend his ministry and Chris takes two key things that he talks about - firstly how to measure our seeming success and second to remember whose power it is that we're able to do anything.

In the letter of 2 Corinthians, the Apostle Paul is writing to the Christians in Corinth to help them focus on what’s really important as they meet and serve together as a church. Giving himself as a prime example, Paul explains how God delights to use weak and imperfect people for His work. As we look at this fascinating book this Autumn, we will see how God wants to give us confidence and joy as we serve Him in the midst of trials.

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On this morning we had a worship Sunday to give ourselves time to learn about all that it means to worship God. James our worship leader taught us about the 7 Hebrew words for Praise found in the Old Testament and what the mean to help us develop our understanding of praise and worship.

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During this Sunday we had a special giving Sunday, looking at the extravagant giving in 2 Corinthians 8&9. Here, Paul encourages the church in Corinth, and by extension us in Hope Church, to excel in the grace of giving, as seen displayed by the Macedonian churches.

In the letter of 2 Corinthians, the Apostle Paul is writing to the Christians in Corinth to help them focus on what’s really important as they meet and serve together as a church. Giving himself as a prime example, Paul explains how God delights to use weak and imperfect people for His work. As we look at this fascinating book this Autumn, we will see how God wants to give us confidence and joy as we serve Him in the midst of trials.

If you would like to know more about us, you can visit our website at HopeChurchGuildford.com and contact us via email at [email protected]

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Welcome to Hope Church Guildford's service on Sunday 23rd October 2022. In this talk Rehana continues our series in 2 Corinthians, by showing us out of chapter 6 how we can grow in all that it means to be an Authentic Church.

In the letter of 2 Corinthians, the Apostle Paul is writing to the Christians in Corinth to help them focus on what’s really important as they meet and serve together as a church. Giving himself as a prime example, Paul explains how God delights to use weak and imperfect people for His work. As we look at this fascinating book this Autumn, we will see how God wants to give us confidence and joy as we serve Him in the midst of trials.

If you would like to know more about us, you can visit our website at HopeChurchGuildford.com and contact us via email at [email protected]

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In this Talk Terry Speaks to us from John chapter 14 about what it means to be people filled with the presence of God.

Terry Virgo is the founder of Newfrontiers, a worldwide family of churches together on a mission to establish the kingdom of God by restoring the church, making disciples, training leaders and planting churches. Newfrontiers serves 1,500+ churches across 70 countries.

Newfrontiers is made up of apostolic spheres worldwide, and one of those sphere's is called Commission - to which Hope Church belongs.

If you would like to know more about Terry one way of doing that might be to get hold of some of the books which he has written. They would include The Spirit Filled Church, God’s Lavish Grace, God Knows You’re Human, The Tide is Turning and No Well-Worn Paths which is his biography.

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In this Talk Stuart continues our series in the book of 2 Corinthians where we look at how to work well together through challenging times.

In 2 Corinthians 1 and 2, Paul is addressing his change of plans and re-affirming to the church, his hearts desire for them. We learn through this that even though plans change and relationships can be difficult, that we're called to be in unity with one another. In this talk Chris pulls out 5 things, to help handle relational breakdown.

In the letter of 2 Corinthians, the Apostle Paul is writing to the Christians in Corinth to help them focus on what’s really important as they meet and serve together as a church. Giving himself as a prime example, Paul explains how God delights to use weak and imperfect people for His work. As we look at this fascinating book this Autumn, we will see how God wants to give us confidence and joy as we serve Him in the midst of trials.

If you would like to know more about us, you can visit our website at HopeChurchGuildford.com and contact us via email at [email protected]

Or why not check out our Social Media pages:

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2 Corinthians chapter 4 starts and ends with this encouragement not to lose heart. In this Chris looks at the ways Paul encourages the Corinthians Church not to lose heart and relates that to us today.

In the letter of 2 Corinthians, the Apostle Paul is writing to the Christians in Corinth to help them focus on what’s really important as they meet and serve together as a church. Giving himself as a prime example, Paul explains how God delights to use weak and imperfect people for His work. As we look at this fascinating book this Autumn, we will see how God wants to give us confidence and joy as we serve Him in the midst of trials.

If you would like to know more about us, you can visit our website at HopeChurchGuildford.com and contact us via email at [email protected]

Or why not check out our Social Media pages:

Facebook - facebook.com/HopeChurchGFD

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