Voices Of Hope

2/19/23 Pastor Don and Pastor Jordan have a conversation around the story of Jesus' transfiguration and how it connects to our value of Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary.

2/12/2023 Pastor Don explores the sermon on the mount from Matthew 5:13-20 and connects it to the value of hope: Find Joy In Serving.

02/15/2023 Episode 6 - Pastor Don and Jordan continue their conversation around why we worship.

02/08/2023 Episode 5 Pastor Don and Jordan discuss why we worship, who is worship for, and the Walmartification of churches.

02/05/23 The Values of Hope series continues with Pastor Don talking about the law of love from our values of Invite People to a Big Table and Put People First.

02/01/2023 Episode 4 Pastor Don and Jordan discuss what goes into sermon writing, studying, interpretation, and our understanding of story in scripture.

01/29/2023 Pastor Jordan starts off our new sermon series, The Values of Hope and tackles the value of Holy Discontent with the story of Jesus in the Wilderness.

This Sunday, January 22, we discover the story of Jesus' baptism and how we can renew and remember our own baptism.     **New Hope is an open and affirming church that puts people first.**

01/25/2023 Episode 3 - You have probably heard many sermons in your life, what are they for? Why do some styles connect with you better than others? Hear some of the behind the scenes of what it's like to write and give a sermon.

This Sunday, January 15, we discover what the story of Jesus as a child being left in the temple to teach the religious teachers means to our own life.   **New Hope is an open and affirming church that puts people first.**

01/18/2023 Episode 2 is a discussion about if theology really matters.

This Sunday, January 8, we celebrate Epiphany and learn how we can train ourselves to witness and see epiphanies all around us.   **New Hope is an open and affirming church that puts people first.**

1/11/23 Episode 1 of What We Are Afraid To Say From The Pulpit dives into the purpose of this podcast and what we hope to talk about in future episodes.

This is our service from Christmas Eve 2022. Enjoy and we pray 2023 is an amazing year for you!     **New Hope is an open and affirming church that puts people first.**

In this sermon, from December 18, listen as Princess Leia is interviewed for a podcast about leading a rebellion and the pains and joys of childbirth, helping us to wonder about Mary's journey in the birth of Jesus.   **New Hope is an open and affirming church that puts people first.**

This Sunday, December 11th, we continue our new series: Advent: A New Hope. Listen as Darth Vader offers a warning from his own transformation about power and control. Do we as Christians fall into that same trap?   **New Hope is an open and affirming church that puts people first.**

This sermon from Sunday, December 4, explores what true peace looks like, why it seems harder than ever to find peace, and how did Mary find peace when an angel told her she would be raising the messiah?    **New Hope is an open and affirming church that puts people first.**

This sermon from Sunday, November  27th starts our new series: Advent 1: A New Hope. **New Hope is an open and affirming church that puts people first.**

This sermon from Sunday, November 20th, continues our series: Stories of Hope titled Stories of the End. This sermon takes a look at the story of the end when Christ is declared Lord once and for all.      **New Hope is an open and affirming church that puts people first.**

This sermon, from Sunday, November 13, continues our series Stories of Hope. Christianity has tried to predict the end of the world for 2,000 years...so is it the end?   **New Hope is an open and affirming church that puts people first.**