Hope Church Blog.
Thanksgiving- Open Your Heart
I am so thankful for the people in my life who live with such big hearts. They quickly and selflessly serve others around them, and...
Ruthless Trust
Recently my Community Group conducted a book study of “Ruthless Trust” written by Brennan Manning. We read a chapter a week, rotated...
The Purple Band of Power
We were all set to go: sunscreen, hats and sunglasses, water bottles filled with ice. We even packed these nifty cooling towels...
Changes
The times they are a changing. Familiar words to an old song. Didn’t like them when I first heard them, don’t like them now. I am...
The Five-Second Rule
You have probably heard about the “five-second rule,” which basically says that if you pick up food that you dropped on the floor...
Beyond Change
God’s goal in saving us is total transformation. He is not interested in incremental improvement, changing a few habits, or smoothing...
Baby Steps to Listening
This business of being still is hard. I find it easy to crash with a blanket and a cup of coffee, but not to be still. I can...
Stop Practicing Witchcraft
Witchcraft. I am an old lady and was always taught as a child that witchcraft was evil. If you practiced witchcraft, when you died,...
Emergency Fund
About two years into our marriage, we were refinancing our home. The day of the refinancing, I received a call from the bank saying...








