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All In

All In We are continuing our series All In! It is an excellent time to be at Hope City! God has been calling us to walk closer, and we have responded. We are a hungry church, and we want more of God! Sometimes, it can be hard to believe that God wants us to be close...

We Don’t Need More Faith

You heard me correctly! We Don't Need More Faith! "Wait a minute, Mark...Pastor John's been telling us that 2023 is The Year Our Faith Takes Center Stage! I've got to increase my faith, to grow it!  Faith's like a muscle...you've got to work it!  Pump it up!  The more...

You are a V.I.P. in the Kingdom!

You are a V.I.P. in the Kingdom! This month, we start a new sermon series called V.I.P.  We all know what that stands for, right?  It stands for Very Important Person. I have good news for you.  In the eyes of God, we are ALL very important people.  We are so...

Vision

We’re in our Faith-Full series, and today I want to talk about Vision, the Vision of Hope City Church. God is faithful – He is faith-full – to not only provide a Vision but to provide the means to fulfill that Vision. As Hope City Church, I want to convey where we’re...

Like Faith-Full Abraham

We’re continuing our series, “Faith-Full” and my message is “Like Faith-full Abraham”. When you talk about faith and being faithful, you can’t exclude Abraham; he is the father of faith. He’s the first one in the Bible who really began to expound on what faith is, how...

Window Shopping

Window Shopping

Are you window shopping? Is that a good thing or bad? We’re about to find out. Let me lay some groundwork first. In Luke 4:18-19, Jesus quoted Isaiah when talking about Himself. One of the things He announced was that He was anointed “to proclaim the acceptable year...

Free to Send

Free to Send

Free to Send We’re starting our “There is Freedom!” series and the core scripture we’re using is 2 Corinthians 3:17. “Now, the ‘Lord’ I’m referring to is the Holy Spirit, and wherever he is Lord, there is freedom.” – 2 CORINTHIANS 3:17 (TPT) Freedom comes with making...

Freedom from the Echo

Freedom from the Echo

Jerrold Bookman was a speaker at Hope City’s 2022 Freedom Conference. This post shares a portion of his July 9 message dealing with Freedom from the Echo of your past. ----------------- The anointing is the burden-removing, yoke-destroying power of God. If you learn...

A New Me is a Free Me!

A New Me is a Free Me!

A New Me is a Free Me! 2022 is our year of breakthrough. Nothing that is trying to hold us back will hold us back because we understand the truth of our freedom is in Jesus. So, I’m going to step into all that I know that Jesus has for me so I can live in that freedom...

A New Me: Should Look Different Than the Old Me

A New Me: Should Look Different Than the Old Me

A New Me should be different than the old me.  And because God loves us, we should welcome the fact that He trains (corrects/disciplines) us to learn to be different. We’ve used Galatians 2:20 as our core scripture: “So, here I am dead and alive at the same time. I’m...

The Best Robe

The Best Robe

The Best Robe refers to the robe given to the prodigal son in Luke 15. We’ll get to that in a bit. Over the past few months, we’ve talked about A New Me, who we are in Christ. It’s truth that was established even before the foundation of the earth. It was anticipated...

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