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Hope In TigardEsther 10- Images of Hope2023-07-2423 minHope In TigardEsther 5-7, Up Pride's Pole2023-07-1023 minHope In TigardEsther 3- The Victory of Faith2023-06-2618 minHope In TigardEsther 2- Clarity in Life's Ambiguity2023-06-1921 minHope In TigardEsther 1- Is Xerxes in Charge?2023-06-1223 minHope In TigardTrinity Sunday- God, Your God2023-06-0525 minHope In TigardAct II- Church UtopiaThe early church must have been something to behold. Something so apart, so other from the way anyone else was living. In the days and weeks following Jesus' resurrection and the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, those early Christians lived differently. Luke wrote about what that life was like in Acts 2: 42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 The...2023-04-2422 minHope In TigardJesus, And Your Great CommissionEaster changes everything. It means that sin and death have no power over us, it means that since Jesus has risen, he will rise too, it means that since he kept his promise, we can know that he will keep every promise to us. Easter changes everything. It even changes the purpose for our lives. Matthew wants us to see that. See, Easter wasn't the ending of his book. He wanted us to know that since Easter has changed everything, we now have a purpose to bring that Easter message to the world. It's a purpose that i...2023-04-1924 minHope In TigardHappy Easter! Hold On to Jesus!2023-04-1022 minHope In TigardJesus, Sovereign and Gentle2023-04-0322 minHope In TigardJesus and Your Heart's Filling2023-03-2921 minHope In TigardMatthew 11- Jesus and Your Rest2023-03-2025 minHope In TigardMatthew 5- Jesus and Your Enemy2023-03-1326 minHope In TigardMatthew 5: Jesus and Your Blessing2023-03-0624 minHope In TigardMatthew 4- Jesus, and Your Temptation2023-02-2724 minHope In TigardMatthew 10- Your Mission, Your PurposeYou have a purpose. You have a mission. Jesus said so! Tomorrow we're going to talk about it. Read about it in Matthew 10!Today, I'm going to leave it as simple as that, because I want you to hear about this mission!2023-02-1323 minHope In TigardMatthew 9- What It Means to Follow JesusThis Sunday at Hope, we will look at the account of Jesus calling Matthew to be his disciple. It seems like such a simple event. Matthew is at his tax collector's booth. Jesus says: "Follow me." And Matthew does. So many questions come into my mind! Why does he follow Jesus with such little context? What is the significance of that for today’s Christians? How are we called? And what does that exactly mean?This Sunday, we will examine the account of Matthew's calling to show Christians how they are called and what they are called to...2023-02-0632 minHope In TigardMatthew 8 - You'll Never Be Sick Again2023-01-3032 minHope In TigardMatthew 3 - The Baptism Of JesusIf I hadn't told you, would you have known that this Sunday, we will be celebrating Jesus' baptism? I don't blame you if hadn't! But I am reflecting on the fact, this week, that this is something that we almost never give a thought to- the baptism of Jesus. As I was studying this week, I found that the Sunday of the Baptism of Jesus used to be like Easter to the early church. Maybe like Christmas or Easter for us now. It was the Sunday that you just didn't miss. It was the sermon that you j...2023-01-1627 minHope In TigardMatthew 2 - Epiphany - The Wisdom of GodEvery year, on the Sunday of Epiphany, the church across the world reads the same text. It's Matthew 2:1-12. It's a story that's perhaps familiar to all of us. It's the story of the Magi traveling from far away, following a start placed in the sky by God himself, to come and worship Jesus. It's a story that's maybe so familiar that it becomes hard to learn from it, and hard to see it for more than just a story. Tomorrow, we'll see together why it is that it's THIS text that the church reads e...2023-01-1121 minHope In TigardMoving Into the New Year, In Jesus' NameHow will you enter the new year? I know that's a question that's all over the internet and social media. How can you reflect on 2022? How can you make a resolution that will last? How can you grow as you go? There is a LOT to say about answering these questions God's way, through the Bible. And we're going to do just that tomorrow. Tomorrow, our time together will look different, instead of having our normal setup, we will gather as a family of believers to have an engaging, thought-provoking, and applicable Bible Study, where...2023-01-021h 04Hope In TigardIsaiah 9- Christmas Eve- When You Can Really Be HomeThere is a lot in Isaiah 9:2-8 that just comforts me to my core. There’s the light that shines in a dark place- it gets me that I don’t have to be the light. That gets me right in the heart because as a pastor, I have the privilege of talking to so many people who are despairing in so many ways, and so this gets me- that when I read this text, I don’t have to be the light for anyone- I just get to see it and experience it.And there’s the part...2022-12-2821 minHope In TigardImmanuel- God with Us- Isaiah 7Isaiah 7:2-14. I’m guessing you’ve never heard that full story before. Give it a read before Sunday if you never have before. This isn’t an account that really fits into Sunday School curriculums. It’s not a story that Veggie Tales is going to make a movie about. Ever. And I get why. It’s certainly not child friendly. It’s not even all that compelling on its surface. I get that why this text doesn't get a whole lot of attention.I can even understand that despite the fact that I think that this prophec...2022-12-1618 minHope In TigardImmanuel, God, With Us- Isaiah 40:1-112022-11-3024 minHope In TigardChrist, The King- Daniel 72022-11-2124 minHope In TigardJesus, My FutureThe book of Revelation is eye-opening. Its words are exciting, graphic, sometimes even terrifying as they describe a vision given to the apostle John as he sat in exile on the island of Patmos. In our text for Sunday John wrote about his vision from God: "Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea."I think I can guess that your mind is immediately pulled to think about the new heaven and new earth- what it w...2022-11-1421 minHope In TigardLast Judgement- John 5My junior year of high school, I was part of a traveling choir. Our spring tour took us to the Southwest of the country, and for a day of fun, our director booked us a bus trip up to see the Grand Canyon. Only one problem - it was snowing. Halfway up we were forced to turn around after the bus slid backwards 20 feet over the snow towards a cliff. I remember feeling utterly helpless as we slowly slipped towards the edge. There was nothing I could do. The forces of nature are too far above what I can...2022-11-0721 minHope In TigardReformation Sunday- Jesus, My RighteousnessSola FideSola GratiaSola ScripturaThat's what we're about here at Hope. These are the hallmarks of what it means to be a Lutheran. These short statements describe the only things we need to answer the big questions of life. By faith alone(sola fide) God places the gift of salvation in our hearts. By his grace alone (sola gratia) God sent his Son Jesus to save us. And by Scripture alone (sola scriptura) does God reveal all of this to us.This Sunday we celebrate a festival called "reformation." It's a...2022-11-0122 minHope In TigardInvisible Suitcases- "My World Is Out Of Control"I don’t think anybody comes to the end of their life and says, “Well, that happened just like I thought it would.” I, for one, won’t. A little over two years ago, I had never heard of Tigard. Now it’s my home. (And I wouldn't trade!) Ten years I don’t even think I would’ve guessed that I would be a pastor right now. I could go on and on.Because life doesn’t lay out just so. It sometimes unfolds in the most unexpected ways and it can feel chaotic and confusing. Or, if you want t...2022-10-2422 minHope In TigardInvisible Suitcases- "I'm Not Sure You Care About Me"Here are some statistics. Anxiety and depression is the most common (by far) mental health diagnosis in America today. 1 in 5 Americans is seeking treatment for anxiety. 1 in 3 Americans recognized a downward turn in their mental health over the past 3 years. Citing dry statistics runs the risk that we make anxiety all about someone else. It’s anything but that. It’s what Peter calls, “your anxiety” in our text for Sunday. Anxiety is having a list a mile long of present and future concerns that are yours. It’s the generalized sense that you get in your gut that s...2022-10-1727 minHope In TigardInvisible Suitcases - "I Am Powerless"One of the first books I can remember reading with my Mom was the classic: "The Little Engine That Could." Do you remember it? No other train was willing to take on the task. The little blue train was. It was difficult, but he repeated to himself in the rhythm of the track: "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can." And he did. This is one of the earliest memories I have of a story of human empowerment. And there are so many of them! So many sports m...2022-10-1124 minHope In TigardInvisible Suitcases- "I Am Worthless"Are you a swifty? I know my fair share of them. A few years ago, they were everywhere! (By the way, a "swiftie" is a fan of country/pop star Taylor Swift) Arguably, her most popular song is called "Shake It Off." It's a great song! Dare I say brilliant? Part of the brilliance of the song is that she knows what she speaks to people. She talks about wanting to feel worthwhile and she gets vulnerable about what it's like when others don't think she is. I think this illustrates the idea that we all carry...2022-10-0325 minHope In TigardGospel Essentials 2Every time the Apostle Paul talked about prayer, he spoke powerfully. He never hedged about prayer. In Ephesians 6:18 he taught us to pray in everycircumstance. In Romans he taught us to be faithful in prayer. In 1 Thessalonians 5:16 he urges us to pray continually. Then, in our text for Sunday, he urges us to pray big prayers. Prayers for nations, kings and emperors. I've known some true prayer warriors in my life, but if I look at myself, and as I hear from the people I serve, I...2022-09-2727 minHope In TigardGospel Essentials 1- Jesus Christ Came To Save SinnersThere’s something about Jesus. He could draw crowds to himself like he was a magnet. He could make prostitutes weep for joy. He made old cynical apostles coin new words just to talk about his grace. There’s something about Jesus that draws sinners to him.It either does that or it makes you jealous at the attention he gets from sinners. This is what would regularly happen when Jesus was alive. People actually made up a tagline about him- Jesus had a tagline- you know what it was? Everybody said it about him! “This man welcom...2022-09-1922 minHope In TigardTreasured- The Widow's MightFor interactive Sermon notes, click here:https://churchlinkfeeds.blob.core.windows.net/notes/42364/note-164211.htmlThis text dinged me up this week. It battered my conscience, it pushed my pastor's heart to the limits. It showed me how much I've fallen short. It's a text that is short and sweet. Give it a read: Mark 12:41-4441 Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. 42 But a poor widow came and put in...2022-09-1222 minHope In TigardTreasured- The Rich Young ManThis is a sermon (and a sermon series) where Jesus teaches us about our relationship with our treasures and the blessings he has given us. He gives a rich young man, and us, a crucial lesson about what it is like to truly repent of both our vices and our virtues so that Jesus can be our everything- our Savior. If you'd like to follow along with interactive sermon notes, click here: https://churchlinkfeeds.blob.core.windows.net/notes/42364/note-163734.html2022-09-0528 minHope In TigardColossians 3:1-17- Treating People Like They're PeopleHave you noticed all the traffic along highway 217 this summer? Along the entire stretch of the highway, there is work being done to make some more room for the future- which means for now, we're squished. This week, on 217, I got my first dose of Oregon road rage. One car didn't let another car merge, and the rage burst loose- there was shouting, there were rude signs out of windows, the whole nine yards. It made me think of something. I've seen two lines merge into one line at Costco, but I've never seen road rage at C...2022-08-2323 minHope In TigardColossians 2:7-15- Full Life in ChristFor this week's sermon notes click here! https://churchlinkfeeds.blob.core.windows.net/notes/42364/note-162640.htmlSomewhere in this world there’s a teenage girl who feels like nobody sees her. She feels like she has to wear the right clothes so someone will. She also feels like she has to walk down the hall plastering a smile on her face; say the right things; and run in the right circles. She feels like she has to do that so that people will love her, respect her, and make her feel like she matters - or at th...2022-08-1523 minHope In TigardColossians 1:24-2:5- The Christian's Great GoalFor access to interactive sermon notes for this sermon, click here: https://churchlinkfeeds.blob.core.windows.net/notes/42364/note-162059.htmlPastors have really big goals for their churches. As a church-planting pastor I know this all too well. Pastors want their churches to be vibrant, they want their churches to serve inside the church and outside, and they want their churches to grow. These are big, audacious goals!The apostle Paul had even more audacious goals- not for the church as a whole, but specifically for the people of his church. You can read about...2022-08-0926 minHope In TigardColossians 1:15-23- Rest in JesusFor sermon notes, download our church app using this link: https://tithely.app.link/hope-lutheran-churchYou might know this about me. I'm kinda a sports guy. I love following the teams that I cheer for, and I love following the engaging storylines around all of sports. But there's one thing I love more than anything about sports. I love seeing beyond the court and the field and into the mind of the athletes. That's why when "The Last Dance" started streaming, I gobbled it up. Michael Jordan was the most iconic sporting person in history...2022-08-0125 minHope In TigardSafe To Hope- This Is UsThere are a few shows out there that I just can't watch. I can't watch scary shows, I can't do true crime. That stuff stays with me in the back of my mind for longer than I like it to. But there's another kind of show that I'll never try and dive into. It's the kind of show that requires you to dive heart and soul into the shoes of the characters. I can't do it. There's one show, I think, that does that better than any show has done recently. It just had its finale recently. I...2022-07-1824 minHope In TigardSafe To Hope- The Life of JesusI’m going to ask you an important question here. It’s probably the most important question that I can ask you. Because the answer that is given has tremendous implications. It’s a question whose implications change the way you live your life, it changes the way you think, the way you move, the way you make decisions. It’s that big of a question that I’m about to ask you. You ready for it? What is Jesus for? Or to say it in different words- why did Jesus come into the world? What was his life about? Was...2022-07-1026 minHope In TigardSafe To Hope- The Fall and The PromiseEve didn't have a word yet for what she felt that day outside the garden. All she knew is what she felt. How the snake had spoken, and she had listened. How she had reached out and grabbed the fruit. How the horror had spread across her heart as she realized what she had done. She didn't have a word for it yet. We do. It's called shame. There are some shames that are inconsequential. There are some that are life changing. There are some shames that we bring on ourselves. There are some that we suffer a...2022-07-0429 minHope In TigardSafe To Hope- The Bible Teaches About ChristThere are some times as a pastor where I have to stop and pinch myself. I look around at the people that gather together at our church, and my jaw hits the floor. I just marvel thinking about how much of a miracle it is that anyone is that anyone comes to Hope. I mean, why would someone come to this church? This is a church that doesn’t even have a building yet. We are meeting at the park for church this weekend! And you don't come to this church because we boast the city's most comprehensive programs. An...2022-06-2728 minHope In TigardSafe To Hope- Right with God, By FaithIt's a tale as old as time. A song as old as rhyme. From the time of the first man and woman- Adam and Eve, there has been a battle for the heart of Christianity. Paul, the writer of the text that we'll be diving into this Sunday knew that. And he lived it. And he understood that it was a battle for people's souls. Will people rest their souls on Jesus, or will they rest their souls on something else? Will people remember that their salvation only comes through faith in Jesus, or will they revert to what...2022-06-2025 minHope In TigardSafe to Hope- the Grace of GodThis week, we unveil a brand new sermon series here at Hope. It's called "Safe to Hope- Unshakable Truth for an Unbreakable Hope." Over the next six weeks, we will be covering some the Bible's most foundational teachings through the form of narrative. We'll answer questions like: "What does the Bible say about sin and grace?" "How is it that someone gets saved?" "How can I know that any of this is true?" And more questions like these. These are the foundational truths of the Bible. When you understand these, then you are beginning to understand the love of...2022-06-1421 minHope In TigardThe Power of PentecostThere's an impressive number at the end of the text we'll be getting into this Sunday. The number is 3000. The context is this: It's festival season in Jerusalem. People from miles and miles around are gathered around to celebrate. Peter gets up and has his chance to preach to a huge crowd about his Savior Jesus. And 3000 people believed and were baptized. That's the impressive number right? As a preacher, I've always had to stop and joke with myself about this, because I don't think any of my sermons ever have or ever will have the same...2022-06-0521 minHope In TigardDavid and YouThis past Sunday, we celebrated one year of worship at Hope Lutheran Church. It has been so humbling and amazing to see God working in this church and through this church! That is worth celebrating!But how do you celebrate? And what exactly do you celebrate? Do you celebrate numerical growth? Do you celebrate a journey? Do you celebrate specific events in the church's young history? I'll give you an insight into the say I've been thinking lately. How do you take a spiritual community at a key juncture and move them forward God's way? I chose...2022-06-0127 minHope In TigardDavid and NathanIt's unbelievable, but it's not, really. David had become an adulterer. He had taken Bathsheba for his own, and to avoid being found he had Bathsheba's husband killed. David thought he had gotten away from it. He even thought he had come out of it looking better and stronger than ever. It's unbelievable, that he could do that. But it's also not. See, there's something that we as human beings are really good at doing. We are really good at pointing out other people's scandals. We are so perceptive to evil when it's in someone else. But...2022-05-2425 minHope In TigardDavid and JonathanI don't think any of you would disagree that we, as people, need friends. That's not news to us, right? Even before the COVID pandemic, there was an epidemic that medical professionals were beginning to recognize based around this: loneliness. Even before the pandemic, loneliness had become a health epidemic. You can guess what the COVID pandemic did to the loneliness epidemic. Do some simple googling and you'll see some scary stats. God knows this about us. He knew it about David. Read through 1 Samuel 23:13-18. You'll see a David running from stronghold to stronghold...2022-05-1626 minHope In TigardDavid and GoliathThis week we are going to begin a new series at Hope. It's a series based on several of the events of David's life. Some of these accounts will be familiar to you, a couple of them, I think, may be completely new.I'd like to give you an explanation for why we're covering David. it's certainly true that it's full of action and drama. (Just read the story of David and Goliath in 1 Samuel 17:45-54. ) I suppose that's a reason to study David! It's also true that David's life is a story of sin...2022-05-0927 minHope In TigardLife Lived in The Risen ChristThere's so much heartache in this text. So much heartache, and so much grace. Give it a read through in John 21:15-25. You can see it in the fire reflected in Peter's eyes. Peter stood on the bank of the Sea of Galilee. I imagine that if you looked at him, you could see in his eyes that he was a million miles away- staring into a different fire on a different day- the fire where he had denied Jesus three times. There was so much heartache in Peter, and the way he had abandoned his Savior. 2022-05-0231 minHope In TigardThe Lord In Your BoatThe last chapter of the book of John often gets called the "Epilogue" of the book by Bible scholars. We've gone through this gospel chapter by chapter since Christmas. Every Sunday we've seen John presenting Jesus- his miracles and his teachings so that we may see him- God's true Son, and yet truly man. So that we could see him in his saving us from our sins. Now we've seen Jesus rise. We've seen him proclaim his victory over not just his death but ours too. Now both we and his disciples are left with a question...2022-04-2520 minHope In TigardThe Joy of the ResurrectionCan I ask you a challenging question? Why does it matter that Jesus rose from the dead? Why is it significant for the way that you live your life that Jesus is not dead, but is alive? The answer is incredibly far-reaching and profound. John gives us a beautiful insight into what the resurrection mean for life. Give it a read in John 20:11-18. He shows us Mary. She's standing in front of the tomb. She can see that the stone is rolled away, and that the tomb is empty. She can even see that...2022-04-1924 minHope In TigardSee Your SaviorEvery year during this week that we call "Holy Week," it strikes me how the crowd changed. On Sunday, when Jesus came into Jerusalem, humble, and riding on a donkey, the people took off their cloaks, and took palm branches, laying them down on the road to show honor to Jesus. They were shouting "Hosanna!" which is a phrase which expresses joy and praise. 5 short days later, these same voices are crying out: "Crucify him!" I ask myself- how does this happen? And along with that question- why does this happen? The answer lies in th...2022-04-1107 minHope In TigardThe Passion of the ChristI think one of the hardest things to do in studying our Bibles is to put ourselves into Jesus' shoes. It's hard, but I'll ask you to try here. See Jesus as he prays to his Father to take the cup of wrath away from. Think of everything you know about the relationship Jesus shares with his Father. From all eternity Jesus had enjoyed had the perfect relationship with his Father. He had been loved and affirmed. So much so that the Father had boomed from heaven about it three times while Jesus was on earth. Their r...2022-04-0528 minHope In TigardPeace, I Leave With YouOn the day before Jesus died, John tells us that Jesus' heart was troubled. Can you imagine why? Even so, just like last week, we can see that Jesus' heart and mind is with his disciples. He's comforting them. He knows that he won't be with them any longer. He knows that they can't follow. But he wants them to know that they will not be alone. And so he tells them: "to the one who obeys my teaching, my Father will send you another advocate, to help you and be with you forever." This is the H...2022-03-2826 minHope In TigardJesus, Your Savior ServantIt's a vivid picture. It's the day before Jesus is going to die. He knows it, even if his disciples don't know it yet. He know he's about to suffer. He knows he's about to die. But John tells us what's on his mind. "Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end."He's not stuck on the suffering, and he's not stuck on the death. His mind is on the love that he has for his disciples. And in that love, he gets down on his hands and knees and...2022-03-2127 minHope In TigardCan You See God?There's something so relatable about the text we're going to be looking at in this Sunday's text. Something that I wonder if many of us, even all of us have felt. There's a group of people that want to see Jesus. That's all they want. Just to see him. Give it a read, if you have a moment. It's John 12:20-36. Jesus responds to the request for the people to see him almost with frustration. He says: "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified." And then his Father replies. 2022-03-1428 minHope In TigardThe Schemer Gets SchemedCaiaphas was the High Priest at the time when Jesus died. He was the supposed mastermind of the scheme to get rid of Jesus and have the people on their side. He was a schemer. He schemed to have Jesus killed, and it worked. And that bothers me. You can read about his scheme in John 11:45-53.It bothers me because it pokes at the traumas and hurts in our own life experiences. It reminds me yet again that it looks like evil wins in life. And that stings. It feels like that’s all th...2022-03-0725 minHope In TigardState of HopeThis Sunday at Hope, we gathered together for a congregational address. We called it the State of Hope. This is the past, the present, and the future mission of our church. God bless it! Listen in to this story!2022-02-2832 min