by Hope Hill Church | Aug 22, 2019 | All Posts, Blog
If you were at church on Sunday, you may or may not have noticed a group of friends wearing matching black t-shirts. It just so happened that every member of our community group, which we named Best Church Group, unexpectedly wore our group t-shirt on the same day,...
by Hope Hill Church | Aug 7, 2019 | All Posts, Blog
There is a story — almost certainly apocryphal — about the famously tortured painter Vincent Van Gogh. It is said that he wanted to eat his yellow paint because he thought it was a happy color, and if he ate it, the happiness would then be inside him and...
by Hope Hill Church | Jul 11, 2019 | All Posts, Blog
In John chapter 3, Jesus has an interesting conversation with a man named Nicodemus, who was a wealthy Pharisee and a member of the Sanhedrin, which was the legislative body of the Jews. In short, he was a part of the most highly educated and affluent circle of his...
by Hope Hill Church | Jun 19, 2019 | All Posts, Blog
I love the story of Jesus’ first miracle at the wedding at Cana (John 2). What a completely extravagant and joyful miracle to begin the work of his earthly ministry! But he is acting out a greater truth here; just as Jesus’ parables were always simplistic stories with...
by Hope Hill Church | Jun 4, 2019 | All Posts, Blog
When I hear that old hymn Rock of Ages, I hear it in my mind being sung in my father’s baritone. He sings: Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee; Let the water and the blood, From Thy wounded side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure; Save from...
by Hope Hill Church | May 22, 2019 | All Posts, Blog
In John 1:14, we read that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. This word “dwelt” is a very unique one in Greek; only John ever uses it, in this gospel and in the book of Revelation. In Greek, it literally means “to dwell in a tent” or “to tabernacle.” As in,...
