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God will often allow us to hit rock bottom because he cares more about changing our heart than our circumstances, but this temporary suffering is always worth it.

Message Notes:

Jonah 1:17 (ESV) Jonah is swallowed by a great fish and stays there for three days and three nights.

There are three principles of how reconciling with God will play out in your life.

1. You can turn back to God at any point.

Jonah 2:1-2 (ESV)

2. God will forgive your sin, but He won’t always remove the consequences.

Jonah 2:3-4 (ESV)

3. God wants to change your heart more than He wants to change your circumstances.

Jonah 2:5-6 (ESV)

Jonah 2:6-7 (ESV)

Jonah 2:8 (ESV)

When you say yes to God, you are about to enter into a season of refining, which can be a slow process to change your heart.

Jonah 2:8 (ESV)

Jonah 2:9 (ESV)

Jonah 2:10-3:3 (ESV)

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God is relentless in His pursuit of us. In this sermon, Clay Burgess teaches us that in His grace, He will sometimes send storms, to show us who we really are, and how much we desperately need Him.

Sometimes, we say no to God because we’re afraid, it’s not convenient, or we just don’t agree with God. In this series, we’ll discuss how this affects our lives and how we should respond.

Message notes:

When we encounter storms in life, God responds and reveals Himself to us.

Jonah encounters a storm when he runs away from God.

•  Jonah 1:4-17 

You may run from God, but you can never outrun God.

When God is working through a storm, there are lessons to learn:

 1. Storms Humble Us.

 Pride isn’t always loud and obnoxious. Often it is quiet resistance.

 Once we move the focus off us and onto others, we display great humility.

•  Philippians 2:3-4 

 2. Storms Expose Us.

 3. Storms Prepare and Place Us.

 Before God can do a work through us, He must do a work in us. 

•  John 3:16-17 

The God who sends is the God who saves.

 “Everything is necessary that He sends, nothing can be necessary that He 

 withholds.” - John Newton, Amazing Grace

Jonah 1:17 Saying ‘no’ to God has consequences, but God is always working for our good.

Psalm 138:7 God is with us all the way.

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God often works in ways that we don’t understand. In our confusion, we are often tempted to put distance between us and God. In this sermon, Chase Gardner breaks down why this is the last thing we should do.

Message Notes:

When we say no to God, we follow a predictable path that plays out the same way time and time again.

By studying the book of Jonah, we can see our own personal story as well:

• [Jonah 1:1] Jonah was a real man with a real story
• [Jonah 1:1-2] God Spoke to Jonah
• [Jonah 1:3] Jonah Said No to God

Why did Jonah run?

1. He hated Ninevites
2. He was comfortable with his life
3. He was afraid
4. He didn't think God should ask him to do what He asked

People Who Say No to God, End Up Saying Yes to the Wrong Things

• [Proverbs 14:12] No’s to God Always Lead to a Life That Falls Apart
• No’s to God Effect the People Around You 
• [Jonah 1:4] You May Say No, But God’s Already Said Yes

Are You Ready to Stop Saying No?

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Whether you’re finishing 2021 strong or feel like you barely made it through the last year, we all find ourselves looking ahead to 2022 with the same feeling: hope. In this standalone sermon, we are looking back through the past year and looking forward to what God is doing in and through Hope Community Church.

Message Notes:

Looking Back
One of the best and most powerful things you can do in moments when your strength seems to fail a little is to look back. 

• Remember the faithfulness of God
• Psalm 77:1-2 (ESV)
• Psalm 77:11-15a (ESV)

Looking Ahead
Proverbs 29 says, “Where there is no vision, the people will perish…”

What if we could ALL ‘came back…’ and it still wasn’t enough? What if the real threat was not the lack of people in church on Sunday, but rather the lack of people thinking and living biblically Monday – Sunday?

Jeremiah 29:1-7 (NIV) “Seek the welfare of the city…”

Three takeaways from this text on how to be God’s people in exile:

1. Put down roots and play long ball
2. Build strong, God-honoring families
3. Invest in your community.

We Must:

1. Strengthen the core of families by investing in Marriage, Parenting and Youth
2. Equip and empower the Church to follow Jesus’s mission in our current reality
3. Meet the needs of our community even if they never attend a church
4. Mobilize the church through leveraging online platforms

BE THE CHURCH.

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In this two-week series leading up to Christmas Eve, we look into the beauty and wonder of Jesus’ humble beginnings and shed light onto the meaning of Christmas.

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Week 1

This two week series leading up to Christmas Eve will look into the beauty and wonder of Jesus’ humble beginnings and shed light onto the meaning of Christmas.

• How it started. How it’s going.

John 1:14-18 (ESV) John describes the first Christmas.

“For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.”

There are two approaches to life that human beings have been able to come up with.

1. Moralism

2. Relativism

Jesus says that both approaches are not enough.

Galatians 4:4-6 (ESV) God came down to us.

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. …For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.” John 1:14,16 (ESV)

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Looking Back, Looking Forward

Vision 2021 Chase Gardner – Teaching Pastor, Jason Gore – Lead Pastor

When we come to the end of the year, it’s important to remember where we’ve been and what we’ve accomplished. It’s also the perfect time to look forward to what we can do together in the future.

• We’re looking back through the past year and looking forward to what God is doing in and through Hope Community Church.

One of the best and most powerful things you can do in moments when your strength seems to fail a little is to look back.

Remember the faithfulness of God.

Psalm 77:1-2 (ESV)

Psalm 77:11-15a (ESV)

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Proverbs 29 says, “Where there is no vision, the people will perish…”

What if we could ALL ‘came back…’ and it still wasn’t enough?

What if the real threat was not the lack of people ‘in church’ on Sunday… but rather the lack of people thinking and living biblically Monday – Sunday?

Jeremiah 29:1-7 (NIV) “Seek the welfare of the city…”

Three takeaways from this text on how to be God’s people in exile:

1. Put down roots and play long ball.

2. Build strong, God-honoring families.

3. Invest in your community.

We Must:

1. Strengthen the core of families by investing in Marriage, Parenting and Youth.

2. Equip and empower the Church to follow Jesus’s mission in our current reality.

– “If we only focus primarily on a 1hr/week experience, we all will become irrelevant to a ’lost’ world faster than we realize.”

– “We are going to have to learn how to take our mission of ‘loving people where they are… and encouraging them to grow in their relationship with Jesus…’ out of the walls of our campuses.”

3. Meet the needs of our community even if they never attend a church.

4. Mobilize the church through leveraging online platforms.

BE THE CHURCH.

Two questions to consider:

1. What is one thing you can do to strengthen your family this Christmas?

2. What is one thing you can do to impact another family in your community this Christmas?

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House of Cards 

Week 6 Parenting 

God blessed humanity when He made us to live in community, and there is no closer community than our families. What makes a family strong? In this series, we’ll examine topics to help us get to a solid, Christian family based on God’s principles. 

The Bible teaches us that there are 5 things every child (really every human) needs 

1. Accept their uniqueness 
2. Every child/person is unique 
3. Ephesians 2:10 – You are a masterpiece that God custom designed before you were born. 
4. Two enemies that fight against uniqueness: 
5. The pressure to compare.  
6. 2 Corinthians 10:12  
7. Comparing is a waste. God never intended for you to be like anyone else. 
8. The pressure to conform.  
9. When you try to be like someone else, you push pause on God’s plan/purpose for your life 
10. Romans 12:2  

1. Affirm their value 
2. Affirmation should be constant 
3. We all need to be reminded how valuable we are 
4. Matthew 10:29, 31 
5. The value of something is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. Jesus paid for you with His life. 
6. How to help your kids see their value 
7. Remind them how much God loves them 
8. Every day show them (1) attention, (2) affection, + (3) appreciation 

1. Trust them with increasing responsibility 
2. Give them responsibility so they can be responsible 
3. The goal of parenting is to move them from dependence on you to 
4. Independence 
5. And then to dependence on God (but with responsibility) 
6. How? 
7. Trust them with small things (Luke 16:10) 
8. Trust them with possessions and money (Luke 16:11) 
9. Trust them with something that doesn’t belong to them (Luke 16:12) 

1. Correct without condemning 
2. Proverbs 3:12 
3. Punishment looks at the past. Discipline is correction for the future. 
4. Never correct in anger 
5. Choose your words carefully 

1. Love them unconditionally 
2. Forgiveness (ask for it, accept it, and forgive yourself) 
3. Ephesians 4:32 
4. Never give up on them 
5. 1 Corinthians 13:7 

Application 

1. Practice parenting on someone else’s kid—serve in Family Ministry! gethope.net/serve  

2. Next Level Parent Conference (January 29)—Sign up at gethope.net/conference 

Week 5 Wives

God blessed humanity when He made us to live in community, and there is no closer community than our families. What makes a family strong? In this series, we’ll examine topics to help us get to a solid, Christian family based on God’s principles.

• The Bible says specific things to women as wives.

1 Peter 3:1-6 (ESV) This Scripture focuses on wives.

This is part of a larger discussion on submission.

1 Peter 2:13 (ESV)

1 Peter 2:18 (ESV)

All Christians are called to submit to many different people in many different spheres of life.

Submission is a voluntary disposition to affirm your husband’s calling to lead, and to use your gifts to help him do that.

Submission isn’t possible when you’re afraid. It’s only possible when you get rid of fear and replace it with faith.

Matthew 11:29 (ESV) The words “gentle” and “quiet” can be said of Jesus as well.

Week 4 Husbands

God blessed humanity when He made us to live in community, and there is no closer community than our families. What makes a family strong? In this series, we’ll examine topics to help us get to a solid, Christian family based on God’s principles.

• The Bible gives specific instructions to men as husbands.

Ephesians 5:22-24 (ESV) This Scripture begins by addressing women first.

Ephesians 5:25-33 (ESV) The Bible tells husbands that they play the role of what Christ plays to the church. The husband isn’t Christ because he can never be perfect, but he should love his wife just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her.

Biblical, Christ-like love is an act of the will that leads to action for the good of the other person.

There are responsibilities of a husband.

1. Sacrificial love

Ephesians 5:25-27 (ESV) A husband must look out for the spiritual needs of his wife.

Ephesians 5:28-30 (ESV) A husband should love his wife as he loves himself. 

2. Protective leadership

Husbands step into this leadership position to protect their wives and families.