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Monday, March 03, 2025

Anatomy of Rebellion and Repentance [2025.03.02 Evening Sermon in Deuteronomy 1:19–46]

We must treat God as God, by a repentance that comes from God

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Beholding, Entering, Possessing [2025.02.23 Evening Sermon in Deuteronomy 1:6–18]

Obedience is an expression of the faith that it is not we who are accomplishing, but God Who is giving, what He has promised.

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Who Do You Say that Jesus Is? [2025.03.02 Morning Sermon in Matthew 16:13–17]

You must receive a miraculous work of God in Your heart, so that you can believe in Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God

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Vigilance Against Legalistic Leaven [2025.02.23 Morning Sermon in Matthew 16:5–12]

Any approach to the Christian life that emphasizes what we do over what Christ does is dangerous and can infect the whole of our heart

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Coming to Christ [2025.03.02 Sabbath School Book Study in How to Live as a Christian]

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When God Calls Us to Worship [2025.02.26 Sabbath School in Westminster Confession of Faith 21.6—Hopewell 101]

We continued studying through the Scriptural doctrine that our congregation confesses. This week, we continued Westminster Confession chapter 21—finishing Article 6 with how God calls us to public worship times both by His Word and His providence.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Righteousness Is True Riches [2025.02.26 Midweek Sermon in Proverbs 11:15–31]

Pursuing gain gains nothing; but, pursuing God, and therefore blessing others, gains everything.

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Community Benefits of Righteousness [2025.02.19 Midweek Sermon in Proverbs 11:9–14]

The wise are a blessing to others by their speech

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Christ's Blood and Our Salvation [Children's Catechism 135—Theology Simply Explained]

Pastor walks his children through Children's Catechism question 135—especially explaining how the blood of Christ was shed for several aspects of our salvation.

Q134. What does the wine represent? The blood of Christ, shed for our salvation.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Wise in Words and Work [Family Worship lesson in Proverbs 12:1–14]

What good is good sense? Proverbs 12:1–14 looks forward to the sermon in this week’s midweek meeting. In these fourteen verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that good sense causes a man to use his mouth and his hands in a fruitful and blessed way. (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

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Weekly Schedule: Study, Worship, Fellowship, and Pray with Hopewell!

Each Lord's Day
9:50a - Free full breakfast during…
10a - Sabbath School for all ages
11a - Public Worship (current series: Matthew)
1p - Coffee/Fellowship Time
1p - Catechism Class
1:15p - Shared Food Fellowship (there's always plenty, so come!)
2:50p - Memory Verse Recitations and Song Requests
3:00p - Psalm/hymn Sing
3:45p - Evening Sermon (current series: Numbers)

Wednesdays
6:30p in the Chapel - Midweek Prayer Meeting for all ages. We hear a sermon from Proverbs and then join all together in prayer led by men, before splitting into groups and individuals for intercession, thus balancing being led in praying corporately together with giving everyone an opportunity to pray out loud and covering our requests list.

Every Day in Your Home
You are the most important individual on earth in your and your children's spiritual lives!

Scripture teaches us that shepherd-teachers and every other member of the church are given as gifts from Jesus to help us grow up into Him. But there is nothing that anyone else can do that will substitute for daily worship of Him, by those means that He has appointed, through which He works in us by His grace.

The Hopewell at Home daily devotional guide is a weekly publication that comes alongside to facilitate personal and family devotions. Freshly written every week by a pastor who knows those entrusted to his spiritual care (Heb 13:17), it not only enables you to see the meaning of the text by asking simple, inductive questions, but also gives a sample exposition and application for you to use for yourself, as a couple, or as a family.

Other Service, Fellowship, and Worship Opportunities
The ministry of the Gospel at Hopewell focuses especially upon those church activities started and commanded by Christ Himself. While formalized/programmed events can be useful to get us going, our elders encourage us to take the initiative ourselves.

Some examples have included a ladies' book club, sidewalk ministry at Planned Parenthood of Nashville, and a ladies' fellowship tea put on by some of the youngest ladies in the congregation.

What ministries will you be starting, or are you already participating in, that you will use to encourage the rest of the church in walking with the Lord?

Men's Breakfasts
Led by one of our elders, on the 4th Saturday of each month, men ages 1-121 gather for breakfast at 7 a.m. and read and discuss some profoundly helpful Scripture or scriptural book. We’re currently studying Building a Godly Home, v1: A Holy Vision for Family Life by William Gouge—the first volume of a masterfully exposited and applied treatment of Ephesians 5:21–6:9.