Hope Community Minerva

Hope Community Minerva

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Hope Community Minerva episodes

  • Keep in Step
    Jesus sets us free, but what do we do with that freedom? In Galatians 5, Paul warns against two ditches: earning God's love and using grace as a license to do whatever we want. Instead, he calls us to put the old self to death and keep in step with the Spirit, who grows love, joy, peace, and self-control in us that we could never produce on our own.
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  • The Church, Part 2: Devoted
    What did the very first church give itself to? From Acts 2:42-47, Phil looks at four marks of a healthy church: learning, loving, worshiping, and reaching out. Then he asks a simple question: which one do you need to lean into this week?
    37 min
  • The Day the Church Was Born
    Before you can know what the church is, you have to go back to the day it was born. In Acts 2 the Holy Spirit comes, Peter preaches about Jesus, and 3,000 people respond. That moment still shows us what the church is today and invites each of us to ask whether we are part of it.
    38 min
  • First Place in Everything
    Jesus isn't just one part of the story. He is the Creator who holds everything together. In Colossians 1, Paul shows that Jesus is God in the flesh, supreme over creation and the church, and that his death on the cross brings us back to God. The only question left is whether he is first in our lives every day.

    39 min
  • Tempted to Go Back to Your Old Life? | Hebrews 9
    Ever been tempted to go back to your old life, or to an easier, safer version of faith? The first readers of Hebrews were. Life got hard after they started following Jesus, and the old way looked better. Hebrews 9 answers with one message: don't go back, because Jesus is better than anything you could return to.
    Pastor Phil Rittenhouse walks through Hebrews 9:11-28 and Hebrews 10 and explains the Old Testament tabernacle, the high priest and the Day of Atonement in plain words. He shows how every sacrifice was a shadow and a copy pointing to Jesus, the true high priest who entered God's presence with his own blood, once for all time. The old sacrifices treated the symptoms of sin; the blood of Jesus cleanses our conscience and opens a new covenant with God. Because Jesus stands before God for us right now, we can draw near to God with confidence, hold on to our hope and endure when following Jesus is hard.
    This message is part of The Gospel Story, our series through the Bible as one story that leads to Jesus.
    41 min
  • How Can I Be Right With God?
    What can we do to be right with God? Romans 3 gives a clear answer: we can't. But the good news is that God makes us right through faith in Jesus Christ.
    38 min
  • Why Christians Shouldn't Fear Death
    Jesus rose from the dead, and that changes how we face death. This week we're in Matthew 28 and 1 Corinthians 15, looking at why Christians don't have to fear death and what hope actually looks like on the other side of the grave.
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  • Why Did Jesus Have to Die? | John 19 | It Is Finished
    Why did Jesus have to die? In this message from John 19:1-30, we look at the crucifixion of Jesus and unpack the real reason behind it, not Rome's fear of an uprising, not the religious leaders' charge of blasphemy, but the will of God from before creation.
    We trace the phrase "It is finished" back through Jesus' ministry, the Passover lamb in Exodus, and Isaiah 53, to see why this moment on the cross is the most significant event in history. Along the way we hear from Charles Spurgeon's classic 1861 sermon on this same phrase.
    31 min
  • Who Do You Say Jesus Is? | Matthew 16

    What does it actually mean to follow Jesus? In Matthew 16:13-28, Jesus takes his disciples to Caesarea Philippi, a place soaked in pagan worship, and asks them the question that decides everything: "Who do you say that I am?" Peter's answer, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God," becomes the foundation Jesus builds his church on. But confession is only the start. Jesus goes on to tell his disciples what it costs to follow him: deny yourself, take up your cross, and lose your life to find it.In this message from our year-long walk through The Gospel Story, we look at what it means to move from saying Jesus is Lord to actually living like it.About Us: At Hope Community, we are dedicated to making disciples of Jesus who are transformed by truth, sent out on mission, and live together in unity. Discover more at HCMinerva.church

    36 min

About Hope Community Minerva

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Welcome to the weekly audio podcast for Hope Community —a church in Minerva, Ohio. We are disciples of Jesus making more disciples of Jesus. To learn more about Hope Community visit us at…