• Hagar and Being Seen
    Jun 29 2025

    An Old Testament figure named Hagar identifies God as the One who sees her. As part of our cloud of witnesses, she encourages us to believe that God sees all the details of our lives including those parts we’re ashamed of. More than that, as Tim Keller said, God loves us “all the way to the bottom” seeing all of our unlovable parts yet declaring “I love you anyway.”

    Cloud of Witnesses
    Cor Chmieleski
    Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

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    37 mins
  • You Can’t Outwork a Restless Soul
    Jun 22 2025

    It starts with two brothers and two offerings. One is accepted, the other isn’t, and what unfolds exposes something hidden in all of us—a quiet comparison, a craving to be enough, a soul that won’t settle. You can’t outwork that restlessness, but you can let better blood speak.

    Cloud of Witnesses
    Davis Johnson
    Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

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    47 mins
  • Adam and Highly Narrated Identities
    Jun 15 2025

    Our current cultural moment lends itself to highly narrated identities. What is a highly narrated identity? It’s a self-conception that is shaped, curated, and reinforced through continuous personal storytelling. Essentially, you’re the author. Scripture confronts this thinking and invites to embrace a new author and new identity, one beyond your ability to manufacture.

    Cloud of Witnesses
    Cor Chmieleski
    Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

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    43 mins
  • Jesus Loves Flipping the Script
    Jun 8 2025

    Throughout the Gospels, Jesus consistently overturns people’s expectations and reshapes their understanding of who God is and what He is doing. He flips the script by working in unexpected places, changing lives, and transforming the world through a group of the most unlikely people. In the most surprising act of all, he dies and rises again—so that now through the good news of the gospel, he can rewrite any story.

    Cloud of Witnesses
    Paul Stiver
    Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

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    46 mins
  • Perils, Promises, and Planks
    Jun 1 2025

    This passage is filled with perils, promises, and planks. The bible often uses narrative to communicate spiritual realities. In this story, a ship is destroyed and those unable to swim cling to wood planks eventually arriving safely ashore. Isn’t that our spiritual story—awash in sin and death until a wooden plank in the form of a cross surfaces and saves us?

    Acts: The Story Continues
    Cor Chmieleski
    Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

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    40 mins
  • Chasing the Light: Four pictures from Acts 16-26
    May 25 2025

    Through four “snapshots” we cover a lot of the middle of the book of Acts, allow us to reflect and enjoy all the beauty of wonder of the gospel’s spread on Paul’s second missionary journey.

    Acts: The Story Continues
    Steve Treichler
    Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

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    46 mins
  • The First Church Split
    May 18 2025

    In our study of Acts so far, we have seen a lot of things. In chapter 15 we see this new movement of the followers of Jesus facing a very real threat, that, if not handled correctly, would be the end of true Christianity!

    Acts: The Story Continues
    Steve Treichler
    Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

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    44 mins
  • Stop keeping score in a game Jesus has already won
    May 11 2025

    In faith, and in life, we keep score. I’m winning. Ope, I’m losing. Nope, I’m back to winning. Oh, I think I just lost. The great relief we find in the bible is that Jesus has played the game and won. Dear friend, relax…do away with the many scorecards of life…and trust afresh in the good news of Jesus.

    Acts: The Story Continues
    Cor Chmieleski
    Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

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    41 mins