Hope Church Nashville Podcast

Hope Church
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We exist to bring hope to our community by walking the way of Jesus until it is in Nashville as it is in heaven. https://linktr.ee/hopechurchnash.

Episodes

  1. 6d ago

    Replanted: Withered Roots | Week Two | Revelation 2:1-7 | September 23rd, 2026

    In the second week of the Replanted series, Jason dove into Jesus’ address to the church in Ephesus in Revelation 2:1–7 to uncover how a thriving, highly effective church can slowly go astray. On paper, the Ephesians were doing everything right: they worked hard, endured suffering, stood for doctrinal truth, and rooted out false teaching. Yet, Jesus brought a serious indictment against them: they had abandoned the love they had at first. Like doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons, it is entirely possible to serve God tirelessly while drifting away from intimate relationship with Him and placing our ultimate affection on the tools and people rather than Christ Himself. Spiritual drift and church failure often happen when we idolize or demonize what Jason called the “5 Ps” of church life: Place, People, Personality, Programs, and Position. When these secondary things become primary, we reduce the body of Christ to a mere country club or gym, seeking power, control, or personal preference rather than gospel transformation. To prevent our roots from withering and our lampstand from being removed, Jesus gives us a clear path back: remember where we fell, repent of the false loves we have turned to, and return to the simple, humble works we did at first. Support the show

  2. Sep 21

    Replanted: Remembering Faith | Week One | Leviticus 10:1–3, Psalm 78:1–7 | September 20th, 2026

    Joel kicked off our Replanted sermon series by looking back at the history of Eastland Baptist Church (now Hope Church) to discover how God brings life out of death, not just in a building, but within our own souls. Drawing from Leviticus and 1 Corinthians 1:30, we see that life and holiness exist only in God's presence, and Jesus was sent to make us righteous so we can experience true, unrestricted access to the Father. Yet, even while in Christ, we can still experience spiritual drift. This drift rarely happens through a single sinful choice; rather, it happens through small, unconscious concessions and steps we fail to take in confession, community, and spiritual growth. The 100-year history of this local body of believers mirrors our personal faith journeys: from a small but vibrant 1911 "living room" faith, to a 1926 season of momentum and growth, to a gradual, quiet turning inward where a church slowly becomes a place people drive past without realizing life exists inside. Psalm 78:1–7 calls us to remember and speak the truth about our timeline. The path to being replanted does not begin with an immediate renovation or by fixing ourselves, but with honest confession. Whether our faith is alive, quiet, or reduced to a stubborn little remnant, God has already gone ahead of us, proving that death has no hold in His Kingdom. Support the show

  3. Sep 15

    Sabbath: Reframing Our Rest | Week FourMatthew | 11:27–30, Mark 3:1–5 | September 13th, 2026

    In this final week of our Sabbath series, Cameo looked into the words and work of Jesus in the Gospels to discover how He unlocks the true heart of Sabbath rest. Sabbath as Creation Blessing: Rather than viewing Sabbath as an obsolete Old Testament rule that we no longer need to practice it, we see that Sabbath was established in Genesis as a creation blessing. God engaged in Sabbath not out of need, but out of His fullness of life, inviting humanity to dwell in celebratory communion with Him. The Easy Yoke: In Matthew 11, Jesus addresses the exhausted by offering a yoke—a wooden beam pairing a stronger ox with a weaker one. When we attach ourselves to Christ and work in tandem with Him, He sets the pace and carries the heavy load, turning our labor into true soul rest.. Living in the Already / Not Yet: While work in Eden was joy-filled delight, the Fall turned labor into painful toil and sweat. Because Christ inaugurated the Kingdom, we live in perpetual spiritual Sabbath, yet we still inhabit a physical world where phones ping and bodies ache. Practicing a dedicated day of Sabbath serves as our intentional "dress rehearsal" for the New Creation—an act of hope-filled resistance where we stop, rest, delight, and worship. A Restorative Force: As seen in Mark 3 when Jesus heals the shriveled hand, Sabbath is not a static rulebook of prohibitions ("do nothing"), but a force of restoration. True Sabbath sets things right, opposing systems of bondage and extending Kingdom wholeness (shalom) and Jubilee to a broken world. Support the show

  4. Sep 7

    Sabbath: Reframing Our Rest | Week Three | Ezekiel 11:14–20 | September 6th, 2026

    While previous weeks focused on identity and work, Sabbath ultimately transforms how we relate to the people around us. When Israel lost their temple and homeland to Babylon, the Sabbath became the one thing the empire could not destroy or confiscate: a portable sanctuary of time. In Ezekiel 11, God promised to be a miqdash me’at—a “small sanctuary”—for His people right there in exile. Over time, God's people realized this sanctuary in exile wasn't a building, but a Sabbath table. Jeremiah's letter to the exiles offered a radical alternative to either denial (“just survive until we go home”) or despair (“blend in and become Babylonian”). God called them to rooted presence: to build houses, plant gardens, and seek the peace (shalom) of the very city that held them captive. Sabbath is what makes this rooted presence possible; it allows us to plant gardens and bring thriving in our culture without planting our identity or worth there. When we live under an internal “Pharaoh” driven by anxiety and productivity, we lose the ability to have real neighbors. Instead, we reduce people to four transactional categories: Rivals (who might get what I want) Threats (who might take what I have) Tools (who can be useful to me) Quotas (who are just another demand on my time) The Sabbath command in Deuteronomy 5 resets these categories by insisting everyone—family, workers, immigrants, and even animals—stop producing. It breaks into our transactional patterns and brings people back into their God-given position of image-bearers. Ultimately, loving people this way isn't about excess of effort;. it requires the heart surgery God promises in Ezekiel 11: removing our “heart of stone” and replacing it with an undivided “heart of flesh” around a shared table. Support the show

  5. Aug 31

    Sabbath: Reframing Our Rest | Week Two | Deuteronomy 5:12–15 & Exodus 16:4–5 | August 30th, 2026

    Many of us live with a driving voice telling us that our identity and worth are tied strictly to our output and met (or unmet) quotas. In Deuteronomy 5, God commands Sabbath not only as a reflection of creation, but as a memorial of deliverance from Egypt, where human beings were treated merely as tools for production. God’s goal in Sabbath is not to diminish or condemn human labor, but to strip work off the throne and restore its true, God-given dignity. Work existed before the Fall; in Genesis 2, Adam was called to "work" (abad) and "keep" (shamar) the garden—the exact priestly terminology used for serving in the Tabernacle. Work was designed to be worship and an act of priestly service. In the language of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Sabbath is a "cathedral in time"—a sacred realm where we step out of our obsession with achieving in the physical space and step into God's presence. As illustrated by the manna in the wilderness, Sabbath is a weekly act of trust, declaring that God is our true provider. When we take Jesus' yoke, we rest in His finished work on the cross, working from His finished accomplishment rather than striving to prove our own worth. Support the show

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We exist to bring hope to our community by walking the way of Jesus until it is in Nashville as it is in heaven. https://linktr.ee/hopechurchnash.

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  • Creator
    Hope Church
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    5
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 Hope Church Nashville Podcast
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