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Pastor Matt continues our new series on Philippians, challenging us to focus on God's goodness, invest in gospel-centered relationships, and allow growing knowledge to produce greater love, wisdom, purity, and fruitfulness.

Listen in as Pastor Matt brings a daily scripture, encouragement and prayer just for you. Today's fresh catch comes from John 16:13.

Listen in as Pastor Matt brings a daily scripture, encouragement and prayer just for you. Today's fresh catch comes from Proverbs 3:5.

The Church That Jesus is Coming For Week 2 | Pastor Matt Engle | Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Listen in as Pastor Matt brings a daily scripture, encouragement and prayer just for you. Today's fresh catch comes from Proverbs 2:4.

Pastor Matt Sturdevant and the pastoral staff of Hope Church continue their two-week series through the Book of Esther, using the Three C Podcast to go deeper than Sunday morning allowed. The big idea of the series is this: certainty is not knowing what will happen next — it is knowing who you can trust when you don't know what's coming. The team unpacks three anchoring truths: God is in control even when we are not, God is working even when we cannot see it, and God has a purpose even when we do not understand it. They also offer a crucial warning — the message of Esther is not that trusting God guarantees the outcome we want. The answer to an uncertain world is not a principle; it's a person — Jesus Christ. The podcast then goes several layers deeper into the historical and Biblical context of the story. Pastor Matt draws a fascinating line connecting Haman the Agagite back to Agag, the Amalekite king whom King Saul failed to destroy in 1 Sam. 15, and traces Mordecai's lineage back to the house of Kish in the tribe of Benjamin — the same lineage as Saul himself. This means the conflict between Mordecai and Haman is, in many ways, a generational rematch of Saul versus Agag. Even further, Haman's plot to annihilate every Jew across all 127 provinces is not merely a political threat — it is an assault on God's covenant promise to Abraham in Gen. 12 and Gen. 22, and ultimately an attempt to destroy the messianic line before the Messiah could come. The team then moves into application, wrestling with the tension between trusting God and falling into passivity. Using a framework of opportunity, obedience, and outcome, they make clear that God provides the opportunities and governs the outcomes, while human responsibility lives in the middle — faithful obedience. They walk through a sweeping list of things we can influence but cannot control: other people's decisions, our children's faith, our health, our reputations, and the growth of the church. The takeaway is both humbling and freeing — we are responsible for our response and our faithfulness, and we can trust God with everything else.

Everybody wants to be fully known and fully loved - and almostnobody wants to risk it. In this episode of Digging Deeper, Pastor Matt,Pastor Thom and Pastor Jay unpack why being known is so hard, especially insidethe church, and how pride hides on both sides of the struggle.We usually think of pride as bragging and one-upmanship. Butthere's a quieter, more twisted version: "I'm not worthy. Nobody should waste their time on me. God wants good things for Hispeople - just not me." That's not humility. That's putting yourown voice above God's, and it can keep you isolated, guarded, andslow to trust anyone who tries to come close.In this episode, the guys dive into the value and importance of being known and why it's so important, despite how difficult it can be to take the first steps. If you've ever felt too much or not enough to be known, this oneis for you. Take the risk. Put the reps in. You might clam up thefirst six weeks - week seven is still coming.Digging Deeper is brought to you by New Hope Church.Subscribe for new episodes, and share this one with a friend whoneeds to hear it.

Pastor Matt begins a series on the importance of realizing God blesses and multiplies what we give.

Listen in as Pastor Matt brings a daily scripture, encouragement and prayer just for you. Today's fresh catch comes from Proverbs 1:7.

Acts 1:3-8 September 13, 2026 SS.This message introduces Pastor Matt's proposal to include the kingdom of God alongside Israel and the church as distinctives in the dispensational system. For this part 1, we introduced the very basics of dispensational theology. Next time we will state the proposal itself and then support it from Acts 1:3-8.

Listen in as Pastor Matt brings a daily scripture, encouragement and prayer just for you. Today's fresh catch comes from Proverbs 4:23.

Pastor Matt Sturdevant opens a two-week series called Finding Certainty in an Uncertain World by asking a simple but piercing question: what are you uncertain about right now? Whether it's your job, your marriage, your health, your kids, or the economy, Pastor Matt establishes that uncertainty isn't an unusual season of life — it's simply part of life in a broken world. Beneath that uncertainty, he identifies another struggle: our deep desire to be in control. Yet as he points out, there are things we can influence that we simply cannot control, and one of life's most unsettling discoveries is just how little control we actually have. To wrestle with this, Pastor Matt takes the congregation into the Book of Esther — a real account of a young Jewish orphan who found herself living in a world of uncertainty about 2500 years ago. One of the most striking features of Esther is that God's name is never mentioned once in the entire book, yet His fingerprints are everywhere. From this, Pastor Matt draws three certainties: God is in control even when we are not, God is working even when we cannot see it, and God has a purpose even when we do not understand it. As Proverbs 19:21 reminds us, "Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand." The sermon builds toward its most important point: the answer to an uncertain world is not a principle — it's a person. Our deepest problem isn't uncertainty; it's sin. But Romans 5:8 declares, "God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." The cross proves God's love, and the resurrection proves Jesus can save. Because of this, Pastor Matt redefines certainty not as knowing what will happen next, but as knowing who you can trust when you don't — and that trust is grounded in Jesus Christ.

Thank you for watching this message from Pastor Matt Holcomb! Join us live on Sunday mornings around 10:45AM GIVE US SOME LOVE - Remember to Like & Subscribe and also click the Bell Icon to get notified every time we post new content.

Pastor Matt addresses how believers should respond when facing unexpected challenges and trials. Rather than placing primary reliance on human wisdom, strength, or resources, Scripture calls us to place complete trust in the Lord. Through several biblical accounts, the sermon contrasts the outcomes of trusting in human ability versus trusting in God's power and provision.(00:00) - Introduction & Facing Challenges (01:27) - Church Leadership Update (06:19) - Jeremiah 17:5–8 (Trusting in Man vs. God) (08:31) - Joshua 6 & 9 (Trust in God vs. Trust in People) (11:32) - 2 Chronicles 14 & 16 (King Asa's Choices) (15:19) - Luke 5:5a vs. Luke 5:5b (Peter's Obedience) (20:07) - Jeremiah 17:5–8 (Enduring Seasons of Drought) (24:35) - Ezra 8:21–23 (Fasting & Total Dependence) (29:42) - Closing Prayer & Communion Pastor Matt Clausen preaches from the Prior Lake Campus.

Join us as Pastor Matt reminds us to go and make disciples of all people.

The Bible isn't just another book—it's the living Word of God. In Week 1 of The Holy Bible, Pastor Matt challenges us to love the Word, learn the Word, and live the Word. Discover why Scripture can be trusted, why it deserves a central place in our lives, and how God's Word equips us to live with wisdom, faith, and purpose.

Listen in as Pastor Matt brings a daily scripture, encouragement and prayer just for you. Today's fresh catch comes from John 14:16.

Listen in as Pastor Matt brings a daily scripture, encouragement and prayer just for you. Today's fresh catch comes from John 1:4.

Listen in as Pastor Matt brings a daily scripture, encouragement and prayer just for you. Today's fresh catch comes from 2 Corinthians 12:9.

Pastor Matt Sturdevant opened the sermon with a striking passage from C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters, in which the demon Screwtape reassures his apprentice Wormwood not to panic just because their "patient" has become a Christian — because the habits of the patient, both mental and bodily, are still in their favor. That sobering image set the tone for the entire message: becoming a follower of Jesus is only the beginning. Every disciple must be intentional about renewing their mind, transforming their heart, and deploying their hands — because if we do nothing, we drift, and we drift in the wrong direction. The heart of the sermon centered on the big idea that every follower of Jesus has been intentionally placed where they are to represent Christ and help others discover His ways. Pastor Matt walked through three key points: every disciple is sent, ordinary life carries extraordinary purpose, and ordinary faithfulness creates eternal impact. To make that real and practical, he outlined a simple, non-weird framework for living as a sent person: notice the people God has already placed around you, pray for them specifically, care for them genuinely, share naturally about Jesus, invite them to take a next step, and simply walk with them — whether they respond to the gospel or not. The podcast discussion that followed dug deeper into what this actually looks like in everyday life. The team unpacked the danger of two opposite errors — words without a matching life, and a life without words — pushing back on the popular but historically questionable quote often attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi: "Preach the gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words." The truth, Pastor Matt argued, is that good works make the gospel believable, but they cannot make it understandable. Words are necessary. And when it comes to not knowing enough to share your faith, the answer is probably less than you think — because a personal testimony of "I was one way, Jesus entered my life, and now I'm different" is a powerful and accessible starting point for anyone.

Thank you for watching this message from Pastor Matt Holcomb! Join us live on Sunday mornings around 10:45AM GIVE US SOME LOVE - Remember to Like & Subscribe and also click the Bell Icon to get notified every time we post new content.

Pastor Matt concludes the series 'Stand Firm'.

Listen in as Pastor Matt brings a daily scripture, encouragement and prayer just for you. Today's fresh catch comes from Romans 8:17.

Listen in as Pastor Matt brings a daily scripture, encouragement and prayer just for you. Today's fresh catch comes from John 15:4.

In the closing message of the "Fully Engaged" series, Pastor Matt brings the six-week journey to a powerful conclusion with a simple but weighty truth: every follower of Jesus has been intentionally placed where they are to represent Christ and help others discover His way. Anchoring the message in the Great Commission from Matthew 28:18-20 and Acts 1:8, Pastor Matt challenges the idea that ministry is reserved for pastors and missionaries. If you are a disciple, you are sent — to your workplace, your neighborhood, your school, your family — because there are people in your life that no one else can reach the way you can. Drawing from 2 Corinthians 5:17-21, Pastor Matt paints a vivid picture of what it looks like to live as an ambassador of Jesus. Just as an ambassador lives in one country while representing another, followers of Jesus live in this world while belonging to another kingdom. That means our words, our actions, and the way we carry ourselves all matter — because people are forming impressions of Jesus based on how we live. As Pastor Matt puts it, the greatest obstacle to the gospel may not be persecution, but inconsistency. Wrapping up with Jesus' own words in Matthew 5:13-16, Pastor Matt reminds us that we are called to be both salt and light — influencing and revealing the character of God in the most ordinary moments of life. We shouldn't wait for some spectacular opportunity to be used by God. Showing up, loving people, praying, inviting, serving, and living with integrity — that is ordinary faithfulness. And when ordinary faithfulness is placed in the hands of an extraordinary God, it leads to eternal impact.

Welcome to another B.A.R. on this one Pastor Matt joins us again, but unlike last time where we attempted to obliterate earholes, this time we take it a little more chill and pop punk forward.https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4b7KKjWEdE8EkhFoZmX5VR?si=U7tInq9nQZyoAvCjLLprowEnjoy and tell your friends!

Jesus Is King | Pastor Matt Engle | Sunday, September 6, 2026

Pastor Matt concludes our series on 2 Thessalonians today by looking at a passage concerned with idleness and entitlement within the church. Teaching how believers need to work hard, follow godly examples, and practice loving church discipline by confronting irresponsible behavior rather than enabling it.

https://www.maynardvillefellowship.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Cooke-09-09-2026.mp3 Is Matthew 24:14 a missionary countdown—a promise that Christ will return once the gospel reaches every modern nation, language, and people group? That familiar interpretation misses both Jesus' words and their first-century setting. Jesus wasn't telling His disciples how they could trigger the Second Coming. He was promising that, despite fierce persecution, the gospel of His kingdom would be proclaimed throughout the Roman world before the end of the Old Covenant age. But did that actually happen? Listen as Pastor Matt points us to where the New Testament itself says it did.

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Listen in as Pastor Matt brings a daily scripture, encouragement and prayer just for you. Today's fresh catch comes from Isaiah 40:31.

Listen in as Pastor Matt brings a daily scripture, encouragement and prayer just for you. Today's fresh catch comes from Matthew 11:28.

Listen in as Pastor Matt brings a daily scripture, encouragement and prayer just for you. Today's fresh catch comes from 1 Thessalonians 5:18.

In this episode of the Three C Podcast, Pastor Matt Sturdevant and the pastoral staff of Hope Church continue their "Fully Engaged" sermon series by going deeper into the meaning of ministry. Drawing from a definition by Dr. Wilson, Pastor Matt unpacks ministry phrase by phrase: it begins with participating with God, recognizing that God is already at work and invites us to join Him, as seen in 1 Corinthians 3:9 and John 5:19. It also means cooperating with people, because there are no "Lone Ranger" Christians in Scripture — ministry is a team effort that requires humility, patience, and putting the mission above personal preferences, as Paul describes in 1 Corinthians 12 and Ephesians 4:16. Ultimately, ministry is about serving others to meet their needs, fulfilling our calling, and bringing glory to God, as Matthew 5:16 and 1 Corinthians 10:31 remind us. The conversation then turns to spiritual gifts — special abilities given by the Holy Spirit to every follower of Jesus at the moment of salvation. Pastor Matt emphasizes that there are no un-gifted believers, pointing to key passages in Romans 12, 1 Corinthians 12, Ephesians 4, and 1 Peter 4. The staff shares personal stories of how they discovered their own gifts through trial, service, and affirmation from others, reinforcing the principle that you often discover your gifts by using them, not by waiting until you've figured everything out. Pastor Matt also draws an important distinction between spiritual gifts and spiritual responsibilities — just because you don't have the gift of evangelism, for example, doesn't excuse you from sharing your faith. The episode wraps up with a candid discussion on spiritual consumerism versus contribution. The staff challenges listeners to examine their motives and move from simply receiving to actively serving. Pastor Matt offers a practical pathway — pray, explore, try, evaluate, and commit — and encourages everyone to connect with the church's discipleship pastor to find a place to get in the game. As Pastor Matt puts it, Jesus didn't save us from something; He saved us for something.

Listen in as Pastor Matt brings a daily scripture, encouragement and prayer just for you. Today's fresh catch comes from Luke 6:38.

Sunday August 16, 2026: In this teaching from The Lordship of the Spirit, Pastor Matt finishes walking through Romans 8 and the fruit that accompanies a life governed by the Holy Spirit.Romans 8 gives us more than theology—it gives us a picture of what life looks like when the Spirit is Lord. Freedom from condemnation. Life and peace. Beloved identity. Freedom from fear. Intimacy with the Father. A life increasingly formed from within by the Spirit of God.This isn't about striving to become more spiritual. It's about surrendering to the One who already lives within us and allowing His life to become evident through ours.The fruit reveals the government.

We wrap up our That'll Preach series this week talking about how important true spiritual fruit is.

Listen in as Pastor Matt brings a daily scripture, encouragement and prayer just for you. Today's fresh catch comes from Philippians 4:19.

In this fifth week of the "Fully Engaged" series, Pastor Matt steps back to connect the dots of the entire year's journey — from the Gospel of John to the book of Acts — and asks the practical question: what does all of this look like for us, here and now? The answer, he argues, is found in Mark 10:35-45, where Jesus flips the world's definition of greatness upside down. When James and John jockey for the best seats in the Kingdom, Jesus doesn't rebuke their desire for greatness — he redefines it. In God's Kingdom, greatness isn't measured by how many people serve you, but by how many people experience God's love through your life. Pastor Matt then anchors the why of serving in Ephesians 2:8-10, reminding us that we are saved by grace, not by works — but we are saved for good works. We don't serve to earn God's acceptance; we serve from acceptance. As he puts it, "God does not love you anymore because you serve." Every follower of Jesus has been gifted by God and invited into His mission — not because He needs us, but because He loves us and wants us to be part of what He is doing. The sermon closes with a clear and urgent invitation: get in the game. Pastor Matt challenges the congregation to move from spiritual consumerism toward active contribution, reminding them that the church is not a cruise ship where a few serve while everyone else relaxes — it's a battleship where it's all hands on deck. The key takeaway is both a challenge and an encouragement: we don't serve because we've grown, we grow because we serve.

Attackers, please welcome back Pastor Matt. This time he gets to have fun with Polar Bear.Eventually when Blitz returns to work we will complete the trinity (pun intended) and have Pastor Matt on with all three bears.

Why is the sky blue? Why is the grass green? Were dinosaurs on the ark? Does God know everything I'm going to do before I do it? In this series, “You Asked For It,” Pastor Matt tackles some of the hardest questions about God, about us, and about the Bible.

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Pastor Matt asks us the most important question. Who do we say God is? Join us!

Pastor Matt continues our series on 2 Thessalonians, illustrating how all Christians are called to pray and rely on God, as spiritual growth increases our awareness of our complete dependence on Him.

Listen in as Pastor Matt brings a daily scripture, encouragement and prayer just for you. Today's fresh catch comes from Psalm 127:2.

Listen in as Pastor Matt brings a daily scripture, encouragement and prayer just for you. Today's fresh catch comes from Matthew 28:19.

Listen in as Pastor Matt brings a daily scripture, encouragement and prayer just for you. Today's fresh catch comes from Mark 6:31.