by Hope Hill Church | Mar 18, 2020 | Blog
Let not your hearts be troubled. Jesus tells his disciples this as he is preparing for his painful, ignominious death. He has such a short time to tell them everything they will need to know when he is gone. There is still so much to teach them! How could he be so...
by Hope Hill Church | Mar 4, 2020 | All Posts, Blog
This Lenten season has given me some time to reflect. In years past, I would sometimes give up something that I loved (that is, food) during Lent, but it was more a quasi religious self-improvement program than anything to do with the sacrifice of our Lord. Nowadays I...
by Hope Hill Church | Feb 5, 2020 | All Posts, Blog
Have you ever failed at something, or gone through something really hard, and yet come out on the other side feeling like it was all worthwhile? Researchers and experts say we learn more through failure and adversity than we do from success. Winston Churchill said,...
by Hope Hill Church | Jan 22, 2020 | All Posts, Blog
It’s below freezing outside as I write this, so it is with special interest that I notice John writes in chapter 10 verse 22 that it was winter. We don’t get many details like that in scripture, so the few that are included sound off like klaxons in the text, loudly...
by Hope Hill Church | Jan 8, 2020 | Blog
It seems like just yesterday we were cooing over a chubby 8oz little baby Jesus sleeping serenely in a manger full of hay, his cherubic face lit by glimmering fairy dust falling from angel wings in the rafters, the shepherds tiptoeing around the barn so as not to...
