Hope Baptist Church, Plymouth

Youth Serving Sunday is one of our favourite Sundays, where we give some of our young people the chance to try out their gifts. This Sunday, we heard from Micah and Ryan - following on from Friday's Light Party - with the theme; Light in the Darkness

Luke Mansfield left us with a powerful message: ‘Don't get addicted to the adrenalin of victory, stay anchored in the assurance of Salvation'. Reading from Colossians 2:13-15 and Luke 10:17-20, Luke continued the series on spiritual warfare, this week looking at ‘Authority in Christ'

Reading from a number of different bible verses, Zoe leads us this Sunday, carrying on our sermon series; ‘The battle belongs to the Lord'. With the topic; ‘Understanding the Enemy', Zoe encourages all to focus on who the Shepherd is and more importantly, on His goodness

Continuing our latest series; The battle belongs to the Lord', Luke looks at ‘The clash of the Kingdom', reading from Matthew 12:22-29. The mission is not to survive until you get to Heaven, the mission is to bring Heaven here!

Luke opens up our latest sermon series, reading from Ephesians 6:10-20, ‘The battle belongs to the Lord' - looking at Spiritual Warfare and what the bible teaches us on the subject

Stephen Beach lead this Sunday, closing our ‘Reset' sermon series. Stephen read from Matthew 6:19-34; ‘Reset Your Priorities'

‘Vision is Heavens perspective breaking through into our earthly reality' - hear what more Luke has to say as he continues our mini series ‘Reset', looking at vision and preaching from Habakuk 2:2-3 & Proverbs 29:18

We had an action packed Sunday with a dedication, ‘Moving Up Sunday' for our children and young people moving up to new schools and Luke kicked started our latest sermon series; ‘Reset', reading from Psalm 51:10-12: ‘Reset Your Heart'

Alex Benjamin takes to the mic this week, continuing the Summer Sundays series. Alex is preaching on Psalm 27, ‘The Song of Fear'. Alex touches on David's life story and the different fears he has been through, how even in the midst of his fear, David wants us to know he's confident in God, to be strong and courageous in all that we do

Our Summer Sundays series continues with Jean Potter, who has the more uplifting title: ‘The Song of Joy'. Reading from Psalm 100, Jean reminds us that God is God is God. How worship is all about him so lets rejoice and be glad

We welcome Abraham Baiye to continue the ‘Song for Every Season' series, reading from Psalm 13: The Song of Lament. Abraham spends some time looking at the trajectory of David's life, despite both the highs and lows, the Psalm demonstrates David's underlying faith in God

We welcome Cat Caird to kick off our latest sermon series: ‘A Song for Every Season'. Reading from Psalm 42, Cat asks ‘how do we hold onto hope when everything around us feels like it's falling apart?', looking at how Psalm 42 meets us right in the middle of our troubles

This week saw Luke conclude our ‘Empowered' sermon series, we've been reading through the book of Acts. Looking at how the Holy Spirit moved through the early church and what it means for us today and how the Gospel of Jesus Christ, empowered by the Holy Spirit is unstoppable

Recapping back to Sunday 29th June, Luke read from Acts 10:1-48. Looking at the topic ‘the walls come down', this week's question; are we ready for what God wants to do?. If you missed it, catch up here

Luke continues our ‘Empowered' sermon series, reading from Acts 13:1-12 and thinking about how, up until now, the gospel has spread organically but now we see a church intentionally listening to the spirit, marking the first missionary journey. Luke asks the question; what kind of church do we want to be?

Zoe led us through Acts 9:1-31 this week, continuing our Empowered sermon series. Looking at the life of Saul, giving us hope for the world we live in today

We continue to push through the book of Acts, this week looking at Acts 8:26-40. God has been moving throughout this series and it's been great to hear how the Holy Spirit is at work. This week's topic was ‘The Gospel Breaks Boundaries'

What a weekend! We spent both our Sunday services waiting on the Holy Spirit, reading through Acts 7 (yes, the whole chapter!) and recounting the story of Stephen, a spirit filled follower of Christ

Zoe read from Acts chapter 6:1-7, opening up and reviewing the first few chapters of Acts and how it's all about growth. Yes, the linking thread is the Holy Spirit and the acts of the obedient apostles but the repeating structure is a repetition on Luke's commentary on the growth of the church

This Sunday, Luke took us through the next stage of our sermon series; ‘Empowered; The movement of the Spirit in the early church' - this week's topic was ‘a Spirit formed community', read from Acts 2:42-47

Reading through Acts chapter 2, Zoe Lane continues our sermon series; “Empowered' looking at the movement of the Spirit in the early church”. Looking specifically at when the Spirit comes, how it's a big full circle moment and how the promise of the spirit is fulfilled

For the next 12 weeks, we'll be focusing on our sermon series called ‘Empowered; The movement of the Spirit in the early church'. This week, reading from Acts 1:1-11, Luke looks at how the ‘waiting room' is a place of preparation for the plans God has for us

When life can feel like it's been turned upside down, and you question all you believe about God - like in the book of Luke 24 - Luke talks us through the Road to Emmaus; all the emotions and struggles they felt on that resurrection Sunday but reminds us that the Lord isn't just present in the miraculous, he's present in the mundane too and you don't have to have it all figured out to encounter God

This post may be a week late but it is worth the wait! We had a fantastic time on Easter Sunday, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus and also celebrating new life with a baptism. Zoe led the service, reading from Matthew 28:1-10 and Luke 24:36-49

It was great to welcome Stephen Beach to lead us through our Palm Sunday service. Stephen read from Matthew 21:1-17, with the challenge of how, more than anything else, we desperately need the presence of God in our lives

This week, we were joined by Mike Robbins from Compassion UK. Mike kindly shared a word with us, reading from John 15:9-15

A slight change to the schedule saw Luke Mansfield conclude our latest sermon series; Stop. Start. Continue.  Luke looked at how God is a God who works in seasons, how there is a time for everything but it's good to reflect and review to allow God to do new things. ‘Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.' What a wonderful challenge as we reflect back on the sermon series, what will you be stopping or starting or continuing?

Following on from the wonderful Just Living event on Saturday, we welcomed Dr Ruth Valerio who spoke from Psalm 146, talking further about environmental issues and how we live them out in our lives

Reading from Isaiah 43:19, Luke continued our Stop. Start. Continue. series. Luke questioned ‘what if the greatest move that we are to expect of God is on the other side of something new?' Is God calling us to experience a new move of his spirit? Are we ready for the new thing that he's about to share with us?

As we start a new month and prepare for Lent, Luke Mansfield leads us into our new sermon series; ‘Stop. Start. Continue.' Luke read from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, and asked ‘What if there are things that we need to give up in order to embrace something new together'

What a fantastic service we shared yesterday, baptising 4 of our church family and celebrating new life with them. Luke shared a short message on hope. Hope is something that can feel uncertain, but hope is not dead! God is still moving and he's not finished with you yet!

Zoe concluded our sermon series: ‘Go: Living out the great commission - Living a life that speaks'. Recapping on the past few weeks, Zoe shared 3 clear descriptions of who Jesus says we are and looking at how we live a life that speaks of Christ?

Luke Mansfield continues our ‘Go: Living out the great commission' series and reading from John 4:4-26 and 1 Corinthians 9:19-23. This week's topic was ‘Building Bridges to Share the Gospel' and Luke asked where and who is God calling you and us to reach, what bridge is he asking us to build today so we can be a church that grows and shares the gospel

Continuing our ‘Go: Living out the great commission' series and reading from Matthew 10:16-20, Zoe looks at the question; ‘How does Jesus say we will be received as we step out in sharing our faith?'

A change of plan this week had Zoe stepping in to preach, continuing the sermon series; ‘Go: Living Out The Great Commission' - Zoe read from Romans 1:16-17 and 1 Peter 3:15

Preaching on 2 Corinthians 5:14-21, Luke continued the sermon series; ‘Go: Living Out The Great Commission'. Luke was looking at how our actions in life are always motivated by something, looking at what the heart of evangelism truly is

As we embrace the start of the new year and a new term, Luke Mansfield kicked things off with our first sermon series of the year ‘Go: Living Out The Great Commission'

Luke continued our short sermon series; ‘Where Heaven meets Earth' reading from Luke 57-66, looking at the story of Elizabeth and Zechariah and how we fit into this story. Luke spoke about how we should be reminded that God is at work in our lives beyond our human limitations, despite the challenge to trust in his promises when the circumstances in front of us seem impossible

Our first Christmas sermon of the year, looking at the topic ‘Where Heaven Meets Earth', we're reminded by the nativity story that God is close. That today, you can have an encounter with this awesome majestic God that we sing about, the one who changed the course of Mary's life and the one who can change the course of your life too

Zoe concluded our series on Thessalonians, preaching this week on 2 Thessalonians 3. Over the past 8 weeks, we've seen Paul emphasise points that he's made before. The message is to endure, to preserve, to stand firm in times of deception. Zoe delved deeper into his final words and asks why he says what he does?

2 Thessalonians - Chapter 2 is where Luke picked up our sermon series. This week focusing on the question ‘How do we stand firm in a world that is full of deception?'

On this Remembrance Sunday, Luke continued our series in Thessalonians, this week moving onto 2 Thessalonians, reading from chapter 1. Luke was looking at perseverance and how key it is in our day to day life, how scripture tells us of the power in perseverance and asked if anyone can relate in terms of their spiritual walk

It was great to welcome Jon Bush to continue our Thessalonians series, this week looking at 1 Thessalonians, chapter 3. Jon suggested that prayer is the classroom of the Christian life, learning of God and if we don't pray regularly, we'll remain in the nursery!

Luke reads from 1 Thessalonians, chapter 2 - looking deeper into what Paul and Silas went through during their time in Thessalonica, aiming to preach the gospel but the reality of being pushed out by mobs. Was it a failure or a number of lessons to learn from this time? To bring hope to hopeless situations we may face and how failure doesn't have to be fatal

This week, Zoe Lane kick starts a new series on 1 Thessalonians, looking at reports of how a community of faith is getting on

Luke concludes our ‘Things Jesus Never Said' sermon series. Throughout the series, we've been focusing on the things Jesus didn't say in order to see the power and life changing transformation that can happen by the words he did say, looking to dispel some myths and ideologies that can creep in and effect our thinking about God

Reading from John 8:1-11, Luke Mansfield continued the series, looking this week at ‘Things Jesus Never said: it doesn't matter what I do, God just wants me to be happy'

It was great to welcome Zoe Lane back after her summer break last Sunday and Zoe jumped straight back in by continuing the sermon series: ‘Things Jesus Never Said: You don't have to forgive that person', reading from Matthew 6:9-15 and Matthew 18:21-35

Luke started our latest sermon series named ‘Things Jesus Never Said' - preaching from Luke 16, looking at how we can make up a ‘soft and easy God' to suit our own needs but we end up being robbed of the joy and intimacy that is on offer with a relationship with God

It was a jam packed Sunday and Jon Bush kindly led us in this week's instalment of 'Fruit of the Spirit'

Our Summer series; ‘Fruit of the Spirit' continued on Sunday with Luke reading from Acts 12:1-19