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. Jul 13

    The Acts of the Apostles | Week Four | Acts 17:24-27 | July 12th, 2026

    This week Joel walked us through Acts 17, where Paul stands on Mars Hill in Athens and, rather than mocking the city's countless idols, aches for it as a place of people starving for a God they cannot name. We are showed that an idol is not the absence of longing but longing that hasn't found its true home, and that God had been introducing Himself to Athens for six hundred years through their own poets and nameless altars before Paul ever arrived to fill in the name of Jesus. We are left with Paul's playbook for the Athenians in our own lives, to grieve instead of mock, to learn their poets, and to trust God's timing, reading our own stories as a hillside covered in altars marking every mercy God gave us before we knew Him. Support the show

  2. Jul 6

    The Acts of the Apostles | Week Three | Acts 17:1-15 | July 5th, 2026

    This week Joel walked us through Acts 17, where Paul and Silas move from Thessalonica to Berea and the same Gospel meets two very different responses. He showed us that the claim "Jesus is King" always lands as a threat to our personal sovereignty, and the only real difference between the two cities was whether they met that claim with a clenched fist or an open hand. The question we are left with is not which city we are but where our throne is? The seat we would still start a riot to keep, and how gently the King knocks on that door rather than storming it. Support the show

  3. Jun 29

    The Acts of the Apostles | Week Two | Acts 16:25-34 | June 28th, 2026

    This week Joel walked us through Acts 16, where Paul and Silas sing in a Philippian jail cell, and showed us that real freedom is not a circumstance to arrange but a person to receive. Tracing 2 Corinthians 3:17 through the story, he reminded us that freedom is the Spirit's presence, found not where the chains are absent but wherever the Lord is, even in the dark. The slave girl set free, the prisoners who stayed put, and the jailer who ended the night washing wounds and setting a table all point to the same truth, that when the Spirit comes in He goes to work and does not leave us where He found us. Support the show

  4. Jun 22

    The Acts of the Apostles | Week One | Acts 16:6-10 | June 21st, 2026

    This week Joel walked through Acts 16:1-15, where the Holy Spirit repeatedly closes the doors Paul had carefully planned to go through, shutting down Asia and then Bithynia before redirecting him by a nighttime vision across the sea to Macedonia. He made the case that a closed door is often neither failure nor punishment but God's guidance, and that the faithful posture is open hands and moving feet, holding our plans loosely while staying ready to run the moment a new direction becomes clear. He brought it all to the table by pointing back to Jesus in Gethsemane, who surrendered when the Father closed the door on the cup of suffering and so became our open door into the Kingdom. Support the show

  5. Jun 15

    Immanuel: Practicing Presence | Week Six | Matthew 5:43-48 | June 14th, 2026

    This week, Wendy closed the "Emmanuel: Practicing Presence" series with a message on how God is with us in our enemies, and argued that Jesus's command to love our enemies corrects a misreading of the Old Testament that treated hatred as permissible toward outsiders. She walks through four steps for escaping what she calls "enemy mode" (listed below) and frames love as the more powerful and life-giving alternative to hate, and we are urged to move these practices from theory into action during the week ahead. Escaping “Enemy Mode” 1. Identify who your enemies are 2. Surrender your hatred to God in trust that He will handle justice 3. Reframe your enemies by seeing them through God's eyes as fellow fallen people and beloved children 4. Pray for and actively bless those who persecute you 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.

Information

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

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