Höre Hope Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem Sermons

Series: The Gospel of GodScripture: Romans 9:30-10:21 “The bar for reaching heaven’s entry is so low that only a few will reach it.” Scott Sauls “I often see the most significant self-deception and lack of self knowledge in people and contexts that proclaim a robust doctrine of sin. And I see the most anxiety and control in people and contexts that proclaim God’s omnipotence. Anyone see this too? What do you make of this?” Chuck Degroat “In light of the decline in church attendance in America, I am often asked for my thoughts. Here they are (in a nutshell): The harvest is plentiful. The workers are many. We need to stop wringing our hands and get harvesting.” Rebecca McLaughlinThe post The Gospel of God: Stumbling Over or Collapsing Upon? first appeared on Hope Church PCA.

Series: The Gospel of GodScripture: Romans 9:14-29 “It is at first unsettling to be confronted with God’s absolute sovereignty in our salvation. But ultimately this is our true security, for if there was nothing in us, but only God’s good pleasure, that brought us into grace, then there is nothing in us that can take us out of grace.” Robert Yarbrough “The moment of surrender is the moment you choose to lose control of your life, the split second of powerlessness where you trust that some kind of ‘higher power’ better be in charge, because you certainly aren’t.” Bono “Behind the history you witness is a History-Maker who can be trusted; beneath the values you violate is the mercy to forgive you; beyond the death you must die is the life he has pioneered: resurrection.” Glen ScrivenerThe post Have Mercy first appeared on Hope Church PCA.

Series: The Gospel of GodScripture: Romans 9:1-13 “I never wanted to follow Jesus. I never wanted to follow Jesus. I never wanted to follow Jesus. He rescued me, He rescued me. No turning back, no turning back.” Red Mountain Music “There’s a direct correlation between the accuracy of our memory and the effectiveness of our mission. If we’re not teaching people how to be saved, it’s perhaps because we’ve forgotten the tragedy of being lost. If we’re not teaching the message of forgiveness, it may be because we don’t remember what it was like to be guilty. And if we’re not preaching the cross, it could be that we’ve subconsciously decided that—God forbid—somehow we don’t need it.” Max Lucado “Continue seeking him with seriousness. Unless he wanted you, you would not be wanting him.” C.S. LewisThe post The Gospel of God: Tragic Unbelief and Miraculous Belief first appeared on Hope Church PCA.

Series: Latest SermonScripture: Mark 16:1-8 “Anyone can be sentimental about the Nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don’t believe in the resurrection, you’re not a believer.” John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany “Jesus was the only one that ever raised the dead,” The Misfit continued, “and He shouldn’t have done it. If He did what He said, then there’s nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow him, and if He didn’t, then it’s nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left…” Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find “How can this strange story of God made flesh, of a crucified savior, of resurrection and new creation become credible for those whose entire mental training has conditioned them to believe that the real world is the world which can be satisfactorily explained and managed without the hypothesis of God? I know of only one clue to the answering of that question, only one real hermeneutic of the gospel: a congregation which believes it.” Lesslie NewbiginThe post Good Morning People in a Good Night World first appeared on Hope Church PCA.

Series: Latest SermonScripture: Mark 11:1-11 “Now to the gate of my Jerusalem, The seething holy city of my heart, The saviour comes. But will I welcome him? Oh crowds of easy feelings make a start; They raise their hands, get caught up in the singing, And think the battle won. Too soon they’ll find The challenge, the reversal he is bringing Changes their tune. I know what lies behind The surface flourish that so quickly fades; Self-interest, and fearful guardedness, The hardness of the heart, its barricades, And at the core, the dreadful emptiness Of a perverted temple. Jesus come Break my resistance and make me your home.” Malcolm Guite, Palm Sunday: A Sonnet “It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ’s feet, not coats or lifeless branches or shoots of trees, matter which wastes away and delights the eye only for a few brief hours. But we have clothed ourselves with Christ’s grace, with the whole Christ — ‘for as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ’ — so let us spread ourselves like coats under his feet.” Andrew of Crete, 8th CenturyThe post How to Welcome a King (For Dummies) first appeared on Hope Church PCA.