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. 5d ago

    Replanted: Faith in Hope | Week Four | Hebrews 11:1-3 | October 12th, 2026

    This week Joel preached on faith and hope from Hebrews 11:1–3, showing us that faith is the “title deed” to God’s promises, the guarantee that what we hope for is ours even before we see it, signed by the resurrection of Jesus. He reminded us that doubt is not the opposite of faith but an element of it, and that like Abraham and the saints of Hebrews 11 (as well as previous members of Eastland Baptist Church, who faithfully prayed for this church’s future without seeing it), we can trust God even when our hopes go unmet in this lifetime. We’re invited to carry faith for one another in hard seasons, to lean on our church family when we’re hanging by a thread, and to remember that all we have seen should teach us to trust the Creator for all we have not seen. Support the show

  2. Oct 5

    Replanted: God Brings the Dead Back | Week Three | Ezekiel 37:1–14 | October 4th, 2026

    In the third installment of the Replanted series, we look at Ezekiel 37:1–14 to see God's profound heart for raising dead things to life. Throughout Scripture, God's heart to overturn death and the destructive power of sin is displayed. We see this vividly when Jesus wept at the tomb of Lazarus (John 11:35, 38)—grieving the painful effects of death on His creation, even as He prepared to defeat it. When we experience loss or suffering, God does not stand distant or remain uneffected; what breaks our hearts breaks His infinitely more. Ezekiel’s vision of the valley of dry bones offers a powerful picture of spiritual restoration. When asked, “Son of man, can these bones live?” Ezekiel humbly replied, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.” God then commanded him to prophesy over the dry, scattered bones, assembling them step-by-step and breathing the Holy Spirit into them until a dead valley became a vast, living army. The history of Hope Church mirrors this valley: what once seemed like an abandoned, dying work was restored by God's Spirit through steady, faithful obedience. Whether we currently find ourselves in a dry valley, looking intact but lacking spiritual breath, or standing strong on our feet, God is actively breathing His Spirit into us so that we can breathe His life and hope into our community. Support the show

  3. Sep 28

    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

  4. 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

  5. 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

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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
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Hope Church Nashville Podcast
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