Community of Hope

Pastor, Why Do You Want a Big Church?

Pastor, why do you want a big church? Does that strike you as a strange question? Of course we want big churches because that will mean more people know and love the Lord Jesus Christ.

10 Ways to Teach Kids to Sit in Church

Want to take your kids to church with you? Find out how to learn to go to "big church." Worship, learn, and serve together. Kids can love going to church.

5 Things People Blame The Church For...But Shouldn't

The church has taken its fair share of criticism. But some of it is undeserved. Here are 5 things people blame the church for...but shouldn't.

8 Ways Your Church Can Be More Welcoming to Guests

Here are some things that would help make your church more welcoming to visitors.

What alcoholics can teach churches

Daybreak Fellowship blends language of addiction recovery with Christian worship

8 Concerns That Church Members Seldom Tell Pastors

There are some concerns that are harder to bring up than others. Things like: We're concerned about your marriage.

4 Ways to Balance Leading the Church and Loving the Community

How do we both lead our church and love our community well? And how does this calling inform a church leader's priorities and daily schedule?

Bring hope through what you do

Starting the comeback year It was a year many of us will remember for all the wrong reasons. Never has there been so much change in so little time. The coronavirus took us all by surprise, never realizing how it would affect our lives. How could we...

What Is Your Hope? Hope That Is Real

Scripture Psalm 129-130 Are you hopeful? Do you smile or frown when you think about the future? Do the problems facing you have answers? Do you see life as a pathway provided by God? Are God’s promises showing you how to succeed in your challenges? How you answer these questions depends on who & what …

You Have the Hope Your Neighbor Needs

Christian hope does not rest in one’s ability to convince others. Defending “the hope that is within you” is a freeing call to share the foundations of your greatest hope and joy.

How Hope Impacts Your Life

Ask yourself: If my hope were only in this world, and I had no hope of eternal life, what would my life look like?

Sustaining Hopes and Dreams While Coping withTragedy

Our children don’t just write down their own hopes and dreams for the future at the beginning of each school year in our schools. Our children are our hopes and dreams. That’s why we take actions t…

CARE: Send a message of hope.

SEND YOUR LETTER OF HOPE TODAYMore than 65 million refugees around the world are fleeing conflict, famine, and natural disaster. They often question whether the outside world cares. CARE’s Letters of Hope movement allows people to publicly declare solidarity with refugees everywhere, to raise their voices and say, “We see you and we care.” Send your message of hope below now and share it with your social networks using #LettersOfHope.

Are You Running a Hope Deficit?

Day 16: Generate Abundance and Hope

Where do you find hope? In the people around you? Those with whom you share a covenant, or a hope, or a determination that evil will no...