Hope Presbyterian Church In Winston-salem Sermons

Series: Face to Face with JesusScripture: Mark 5:1-20 “There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry: ‘Mine!’” Abraham Kuyper “In Jesus Christ we witness the long-awaited vindication and effective demonstration of God’s kingship in the world. The coming of Christ is the climax of the whole history of redemption as recorded in the Scriptures. The rightful king has established a beachhead in his territory and calls on his subjects to press his claims ever farther in creation.” Al Wolters, Creation Regained “Laudetur Iesus Christus – Praise be to Jesus Christ!” Edith Stein, responding to German soldiers greeting her in her church with the customary “Heil Hitler” salute.The post Mine! first appeared on Hope Church PCA.

Series: Face to Face with JesusScripture: Luke 7:36-50 36 One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and reclined at table. 37 And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment, 38 and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment. 39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.” 40 And Jesus answering said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” And he answered, “Say it, Teacher.” 41 “A certain moneylender had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. 42 When they could not pay, he cancelled the debt of both. Now which of them will love him m

Series: Face to Face with JesusScripture: Mark 1:40-45 The list goes on forever Of all the ways I could be better, in my mind As if I could earn God’s favor, given time Or at least congratulations … I’ve spent my whole life searching desperately To find out that grace requires nothing of me Sleeping at Last, “One” “Your Christian life and mine don’t make any sense unless in the depth of our beings we believe that Jesus not only knows what hurts us, but knowing, seeks us out whatever our poverty, whatever our pain.” Brennan Manning, “What It Means to Be Cool in Christ Jesus” “The hands of the king are healing hands, and thus shall the rightful king be known.” J.R.R. Tolkien, Return of the KingThe post The Antisocial Distance of God first appeared on Hope Church PCA.

Series: Face to Face with JesusScripture: Luke 7:11-17 “Tell me Tell me the story The one about eternity And the way it’s all gonna be Wake up Wake up dead man” U2, “Wake Up Dead Man” “Perhaps the most important lesson I’ve learned from the widows’ prayers is the lesson of gratitude. They are grateful to their Creator and Sustainer for the opportunity to get up one more time and walk with him again. Yes, there are many challenges that they have and offer prayers about: family, health, money, sadness, loss, violence, and yes, they cry when they pray, but they also sing and dance. I’ve learned so much from these spiritual mothers.” Eduardo Centurion, Foreword to Spiritual Widowhood by Andy Mendonsa “He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.” Deuteronomy 10:18The post Jesus Enters a Widow’s Sorrow first appeared on Hope Church PCA.

Series: Face to Face with JesusScripture: Mark 10:13-16 “Fatherlike he tends and spares us Well our feeble frame he knows. In his hands he gently bears us Rescues us from all our foes.” Henry Lyte, “Praise My Soul the King of Heaven” “Salvation is membership in the family of God . . .The creation of a family with children is the reason for all of God’s activity. This is how he intends to show his glory . . . Our sonship to God is the apex of creation and the goal of redemption . . . The story of Paradise lost becoming Paradise regained is the story of God’s grace bringing us from alienation from him to membership in his family . . . Our self-image, if it is to be biblical, will begin just here. God is my Father (the Christian’s self-image always begins with the knowledge of God and who he is!); I am one of his children (I know my real identity); his people are my brothers and sisters (I recognize the family to which I belong and have discovered my deepest ‘roots’).” Sinclair Ferguson “If the love of the fathe

Series: Face to Face with JesusScripture: Luke 5:1-11 “God speaks to us: not only to move us to do what he wants, but to enable us to know him so that we may love him.  Therefore, God sends his word to us in the character of both information and invitation. It comes to woo us as well as to instruct us; it not merely puts us in the picture of what God has done and is doing but also calls us into personal communion with the loving Lord himself.”  JI Packer, Knowing God “I am growing in the awareness that God wants my whole life, not just part of it. It is not enough to give just so much time and attention to God and keep the rest for myself. It is not enough to pray often and deeply and then move from there to my own projects. As I try to understand why I am still so restless, anxious, and tense, it occurs to me that I have not yet given everything to God. I notice this especially in my greediness for time. I am very concerned to develop my ideas, finish my projects, fulfill my desires. Thus, my life is in fact

Series: Face to Face with JesusScripture: John 1:43-51 “The night I fell in sorrow I knew I was alone. A dozen good-time friendships but my heart is still unknown. I thought I saw your footsteps in the sand along the shore And I mumbled empty phrases that sang so well before. Now inches from the water about to disappear, I feel you behind me, but how did you find me here?”  David Wilcox, “How Did You Find Me Here?” “The Son of Man came to seek and save the lost.”  Jesus, Luke 19:10The post Come and See the One Seeing You first appeared on Hope Church PCA.

Series: Titus: Doctrine that Leads to LifeScripture: Titus 3:1-9, 14 “You can safely assume that you have created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”  Anne Lamott “When the grace of God sinks in, we will be among the least offended and most loving people in the world.”  Scott Sauls, Jesus Outside the Lines “I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them, 1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged the most worthy; 2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against; and, 3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.”  John Wesley “I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.”  Philip YanceyThe post Citizens of the King in an Election Year first appeared on Hope Church PCA.

Series: Titus: Doctrine that Leads to LifeScripture: Titus 3:1-8; 14-15 “When the scriptural people of God seek redemption, they want personal salvation, and they express their desire in what sounds like a cry of the heart.  But to them redemption goes far beyond personal salvation.  When biblical people want God to redeem, what they want is freedom and righteousness throughout the land.  They want God to unseat Pharaoh or Caesar.  They want God to drive the Midianites back across the border.  They’re Exodus people, after all.  They’re Passover people.  They have a history of being squeezed by Egypt, Babylon, or Rome.  In their eyes, God’s redemption means justice is coming, liberation is coming, the King of all the earth is coming!”  Cornelius Plantinga,  Engaging God’s World “The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.”  Charles H. Spurgeon “And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will

Series: Titus: Doctrine that Leads to LifeScripture: Titus 2:11-15 “Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.”  GK Chesterton “How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing…it is irresistible.”  C.S. Lewis, Letters To An American Lady “I found it was no easy thing to part with sin, and the impression on my spirit was that of my utter inability to put away sin. And I think I never had a more solid sense of the absolute need of Christ for sanctification. I saw that it was as easy for a rock to lift itself as for me to raise my heart to holiness.”  Thomas Boston “You were unwilling to say, ‘Why bother?’”  Paul TrippThe post When Grace Appears first appeared on Hope Church PCA.

Series: Titus: Doctrine that Leads to LifeScripture: Titus 2:1-10 “How can this strange story of God made flesh, of a crucified savior, of resurrection and new creation become credible for those whose entire mental training has conditioned them to believe that the real world is the world which can be satisfactorily explained and managed without the hypothesis of God? I know of only one clue to the answering of that question, only one real hermeneutic of the gospel: a congregation which believes it.” Lesslie Newbigin “There is a way of telling the gospel that makes people say, ‘I don’t believe it’s true, but I wish it were.’ You have to get to the beauty of it, and then go back to the reasons for it. Only then, when you show that it takes more faith to doubt it than to believe it; when the things you see out there in the world are better explained by the Christian account of things than the secular account of things; and when they experience a community in which they actually do see Christianity embodied, in h

Series: Titus: Doctrine that Leads to LifeScripture: Titus 1:10-16 “The “secular” society is not a neutral area into which we can project the Christian message. It is an area already occupied by other gods. We have a battle on our hands. We are dealing with principalities and powers. What, then, is evangelism in this context?”  Lesslie Newbigin “Suppose a number of persons were to take it into their heads that they had to defend a lion, the  full-grown king of beasts! There he is in the cage, and here come all the soldiers of the army to fight for him. Well, I should suggest to them, if they would not object, and feel that it was humbling to them, that they should kindly stand back, and open the door, and let the lion out! I believe that would be the best way of defending him, for he would take care of himself; and the best ‘apology’ for the gospel is to let the gospel out.”  Charles Spurgeon “Christianity is not a series of truths in the plural, but rather truth spelled with a capital “T”. Truth about total

Series: Titus: Doctrine that Leads to LifeScripture: Titus 1:5-9 “If we remember God’s grace, then we lose the pride that would make us a Pharisee and the despair that would make us a cynic.”  Merold Westphal “We need to draw ever nearer to the reality of Christian faith and witness in our time, however burdensome, however heavy with failure, limitation, and disappointment. The reason is simple. Our Lord Jesus Christ comes to us in the flesh. We can draw near to him only in his body, the church. Loyalty to him requires us to dwell within the ruins of the church.”  R.R. Reno “Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.”  Apostle Paul “Savior, like a Shepherd lead us, much we need thy tender care; In thy pleasant pastures feed us, for our use thy folds prepare: blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus, thou hast bought us, thine we are; blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus, thou hast bought us, thine we are.”  William BradburyThe post God’s Stewards for God’s Church first appeared on Hope Church PCA.

Series: Titus: Doctrine that Leads to LifeScripture: Titus 1:1-4 “The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.”   Donald Miller “The most precious part of each day for me is the 30-40 minutes I spend each morning before breakfast with the Bible.  All the rest of the day I am bombarded with the stories the world is telling about itself.  As I take time to immerse myself in the story the Bible tells, my vision is cleared, and I see things in another way.  I see the day that lies ahead in its place in God’s story.”  Lesslie Newbigin “We must not lag behind the king in some kind of unwarranted pessimism as though his first coming and present reign do not make a difference. We must not run ahead of the king in some kind of unwarranted triumphalism as though we’re going to make utopia here before he comes again. We keep in step with the king.” David Jones “We ask, “Where does God fit into the story of my life?” when the real question is, “Where does my little life fit into th

Series: He Makes Me Lie DownScripture: Hebrews 3:7-4:11 “I believe that God made me for a purpose—[to be a missionary to] China. But he also made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.” Chariots of Fire “Play is meaningful in itself. It justifies and rewards itself…. It pushes us to explore the world and to form bonds with new people. Play offers respite from the tyranny of work and  routine.” Dan Doriani “The hardest, gladdest thing in the world is to cry Father! from a full heart.” George MacDonaldThe post All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy first appeared on Hope Church PCA.

Series: He Makes Me Lie DownScripture: Genesis 1:26-28; Genesis 2:5-9, 15-18; Genesis 3:17-19 26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:26-28The post ‘Work’s Work’ and Other Myths first appeared on Hope Church PCA.

Series: He Makes Me Lie DownScripture: Genesis 2:1-3, Deuteronomy 5:12-15, Mark 2:23-28 “The Sabbath is not a fast, but a feast, a day for rejoicing in the works of a gracious God, and joy must be its temper throughout.  Joy suits no person so much as a saint, and it becomes no season as well as a Sabbath.”  J.I. Packer “O day of rest and gladness, O day of joy and light, O balm of care and sadness, most beautiful, most bright, On you the high and lowly, through ages joined in tune, Sing ‘Holy, holy, holy’ to the great God triune.”  Christopher Wordsworth “Sunday feels odd without church in the morning. It’s the time in the week when we take our bearings, and, if we miss it, we’re just following our noses.”  Garrison Keillor “People who keep Sabbath live all seven days differently.”  Walter Brueggemann, Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of NowThe post Call the Sabbath a Delight! first appeared on Hope Church PCA.

Series: He Makes Me Lie DownScripture: Genesis 2:1-3; Deuteronomy 5:12-15; Mark 2:23-27 “Sabbath is about God interfering with all the things you think you need to get done so that you can focus on what He has done for you.”  Eugene Peterson “When we rest we acknowledge that all our striving will, of itself, do nothing. Rest means letting the world pass us by for a time. Genuine rest requires acknowledging that God and our brothers and sisters can survive without us. It requires recognizing our own insufficiency and handing over responsibility.  It is truly surrendering to the ways of God. It is a moment of celebration, when we acknowledge that blessing comes only from the hand of God. That is why rest requires faith. It is also why salvation can be pictured as rest. When we rest we accept God’s grace: we do not seek to earn; we receive. We do not justify; we are justified.”  Paul Marshall “At least at night, Let your heart have a rest . . . At least at night, stop your career, calm those desires that nearly

Scripture: Psalm 90:12-15; Psalm 119:32; Romans 8:1-4; Ephesians 5:15-17 12 So teach us to number our days     that we may get a heart of wisdom. 13 Return, O Lord! How long?     Have pity on your servants! 14 Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,     that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,     and for as many years as we have seen evil. Psalm 90:12-15The post Redeeming the Time first appeared on Hope Church PCA.

Series: He Makes Me Lie DownScripture: Genesis 1:26-28; Genesis 2:1-3; Psalm 90:1-4, 10, 12-17 26 Then God said, “Let us make man[a] in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:26-28 1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work tha