Matthew quotes Isaiah to connect the ministry of Jesus to a historic prophecy of Israel whereby darkness gives way to light. Why does Matthew see a connection between the two? And, more importantly, how does darkness give way to light?

Isaiah Cor Chmieleski Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

Download Message Slides

For more resources or to learn more about Hope Community Church, visit hopecc.com.

In Isaiah 40, a promise is made that a “voice crying out in the wildnerness" will come forth and will usher in a new era of God’s relationship with his people. Learn how Isaiah’s contemporaries would have heard this, and what this means to us as Christ followers.

Isaiah Steve Treichler Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

Download Message Slides

For more resources or to learn more about Hope Community Church, visit hopecc.com.

We are opening up a new 12 week sermon series this fall called “Isaiah: Revealing the Rescuer.” We’ll be looking at how the New Testament uses passages from Isaiah in order to clearly show that Jesus is the Savior Israel, and we also, were/are waiting for!

Isaiah Steve Treichler Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

Download Message Slides

For more resources or to learn more about Hope Community Church, visit hopecc.com.

Money has this quiet way of shaping our sense of self — whispering that security lies in what we own or earn. Caught in its current, we strive for more, measuring ourselves by what we have or haven’t yet achieved. But what if there was an approach to money that released us from the pressures of comparison and sense of never having enough?

Half Truths Davis Johnson Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

Download Message Slides

For more resources or to learn more about Hope Community Church, visit hopecc.com.

The half-truth in today’s sermon is “Identity is a secret puzzle.” On one level, life does require some exploration so you can understand what makes you uniquely recognizable. On another level, to build a life in this manner results in ever-fluid, ever-unstable, and ever-changing “you”. Is that our best option? Or is there a grander story that we are a part of, where identity isn’t achieved but received, where we’re not adrift but secure?

Reflection

1. Do you believe in a transcendent God?
2. Do you believe in the immanent Christ?Paragraph Description

Half Truths Cor Chmieleski Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

Download Message Slides

For more resources or to learn more about Hope Community Church, visit hopecc.com.

Our culture demands us to be viruous and to achieve perfection in our schools, jobs and relationships. Are you tired of trying to trying to measure up to this unattainable standard? This week’s message hits these questions head on so we can actually find freedom in Christ.

Half Truths Steve Treichler Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

Download Message Slides

For more resources or to learn more about Hope Community Church, visit hopecc.com.

What is Cheap Grace and what are the truths and errors in it? This week, we look at the beauty of Grace and the way that it can be misunderstood that actually hinders our walk with God.

Half Truths Steve Treichler Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

Download Message Slides

For more resources or to learn more about Hope Community Church, visit hopecc.com.

Suffering can feel meaningless. To cope, we take our cues from culture or our own best thinking. We treat God as an accomplice, someone who is to act in accordance with our wishes for happiness. It is folly. Instead we need to trust God as God and the Cross, which shows how God can transform the worst suffering into the greatest salvation.

Reflection:

• Do you ever wonder if God is going to “get it right”?
• Do you believe in God that one day everything that is sad will come untrue?

Half Truths Cor Chmieleski Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

Download Message Slides

For more resources or to learn more about Hope Community Church, visit hopecc.com.