What's new at Hope.
This Sunday the livestream will be our primary way to worship. This is part of Hope Chapel’s decision to shepherd our health by canceling gatherings at the church. Please feel free to share this link freely. To watch, click on the underlined link or the image below.
“Easter is about how we serve a living Savior, who is still transforming lives today. Easter is not only about His resurrection, but our ability to rise with Him. Easter is about the hope of tomorrow & the gift of everlasting life. Yes indeed, we will celebrate. We’ll celebrate what God did for all of us at Calvary.
How? By remembering Him. By loving Him. By worshipping Him. By praising Him. Easter for us is everyday.
Let the celebration begin.”
Invite someone to the service with you – they’ll be home anyway probably. Please feel free to share the link freely. You can also find us weekly by looking for the video marked “Live” on our YouTube home page at youtube.com/hopechapelatx
Our Sunday livestream is our primary way to worship during the Covid-19 social distancing while we’re out of the building. We see the people of Hope Chapel as the “church” not our building that houses us when we meet. So come be a part of our church.
Check out hope.org for more events happening on Zoom and WebEx weekly also.
To contact church staff, look on our About page.
Join us for our Livestream Service at youtube.com/hopechapelatx for more understanding as our church celebrates this day.
From Bibleproject.org
Steve Hawthorne, director of the prayer ministry Waymakers, offers interesting insights about the event we call Palm Sunday.
From Seek God for the City 2020
Thousands of people gathered at the temple with Jesus early every morning, hanging on His every word (Luke 21:38). The Palm Sunday worshipers should not be confused with the much smaller mob which shouted for Jesus’ execution later in the week. That crowd was incited by Christ’s enemies, who were forced to arrest Jesus by night “because they were afraid of the people” — the very throng that had welcomed and honored Him daily with increasing devotion (Luke 22:2, Mark 14:1-2).
Palm Sunday is sometimes dismissed as if it were a political rally gone wrong. But Jesus was all for it. He planned whatever could have been planned. And He refused to silence the celebration. He said that rocks would have cried out if the people had been restrained (Luke 19:40). The intensity mounted. The crowds increased. Eventually “all the city was stirred, saying, ‘Who is this?’” (Matthew 21:10). Those who hadn’t yet personally encountered Jesus were eager to know more.
Join us for our livestreaming service with worship (singing) and the Bible explained in a sermon this Sunday at 10:00 AM. Invite someone to the service with you – they’ll be home anyway probably. Please feel free to share the link freely You can also find us weekly by looking for the video marked “Live” on our YouTube home page at youtube.com/hopechapelatx
Our Sunday livestream is our primary way to worship during the Covid-19 social distancing while we’re out of the building. We see the people of Hope Chapel as the “church” not our building that houses us when we meet. So come be a part of our church.
Check out hope.org for more events happening on Zoom and WebEx weekly also.
To contact church staff, look on our About page.
Dear Hopites,
I’m inviting you to experience a special Palm Sunday message this Sunday evening (April 5) at 8:00pm Central / 6:00pm Pacific. I’ll be speaking for about 45 minutes, describing the rich, biblical background that makes Jesus’ actions and words on that great day so significant in our day. And all the more in the midst of the crisis we face. I think you’ll be encouraged by this word.
I had originally been scheduled to speak in Corvallis, Oregon to people from dozens of churches in central Oregon, an area called the Willamette Valley. Thousands of people in that area have been praying together using Seek God for the City, which culminates on Palm Sunday. With the pandemic crisis, travel and gathering was not possible. So the tech guys at Hope Chapel very graciously agreed to help live-stream the message.
Since the event will livestream on YouTube, nothing could be easier for you or your friends to take it in. No registration or extra software is required. Simply click on the YouTube website using this link: https://bit.ly/2JyyqHz
It will be a one hour event, starting at 8:00pm Central time, which of course will be 6:00pm in Oregon. The event will be recorded so that you can simply click on the same link and view the message at a later time. Please invite others to view this message, live as it takes place, or anytime after.
Gladly in grace,
Steve Hawthorne
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