Read devotions written by Hope pastors and staff every weekday that align with our daily Bible readings! We hope you use these devotions as a way to dig deeper into Scripture during the weekdays and join us for worship on the weekends to continue growing in your faith. You may download and print our daily Bible readings checklist to track your progress as you read through the Bible.
Our daughter was married in October and for those of you who haven’t been involved in planning a wedding in the last several years, let me tell you, the number of details and decisions are astounding! I wasn’t surprised by the details surrounding the venue or the caterer or the care needed when arranging the… Read more
One of my Christmas traditions is rereading Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. It’s a story about the pursuit of wealth rather than the pursuit of relationships. Scrooge abandoned his opportunity for a relationship with Frannie and potential children in the pursuit of wealth. He poisoned his relationship with his fellow business colleagues and community because… Read more
Ok, so you thought Revelation Chapter 16 was wild, welcome to Revelation Chapter 17! Church history is littered with attempts to identify the various characters John sees in his vision. No wonder John was flabbergasted enough that the angel realized John needed someone to explain what his vision meant! Is “Babylon the Great” in Revelation… Read more
Yikes! Mondays are tough enough without having to read Revelation Chapter 16 on top of it all! The visions in Revelation 16 are terrifying – on one side you have God meting out punishments to a sinful world and on the other side, you have the defiance of humans. It’s a contest of wills. And a… Read more
