Hope Church https://hopechurchatl.com.dream.website/ A Community of Hope in Woodstock Georgia Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:39:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://www.hopechurchatl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/hope-blue-logo-270x200.png Hope Church https://hopechurchatl.com.dream.website/ 32 32 A Church Defined by Worship https://www.hopechurchatl.com/a-church-defined-by-worship/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0000 https://www.hopechurchatl.com/?p=8107 Somewhere along the way, a lot of us started treating worship like the opening act. It’s pleasant, a little long, and something to catch the end of while we park and grab coffee. For people who say we don’t go to church, we are the church, that’s a strange way to show it.  Psalm 98 […]

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]]> Free Refills https://www.hopechurchatl.com/free-refills/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0000 https://www.hopechurchatl.com/?p=8099 Few things ruin a morning like that little orange tire pressure light. No blowout, no nail sticking out of the tread, just a slow leak. So we do what any reasonable adult does: we ignore it for two weeks, promise ourselves we’ll stop at the gas station “tomorrow,” and keep driving until the tire looks […]

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]]> Who Is This For? https://www.hopechurchatl.com/who-is-this-for/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0000 https://www.hopechurchatl.com/?p=8081 We’ve all done it. We hold the door for a stranger, they walk through without a word, and something petty inside us mutters, “You’re WELCOME.” That may slide at a gas station, but it loses its humor when it follows us into church. Who is this for? We find out the moment nobody notices. If […]

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]]> No Title Required https://www.hopechurchatl.com/no-title-required/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0000 https://www.hopechurchatl.com/?p=8069 We’ve built an entire vocabulary around “ministry” that has almost nothing to do with what the word actually means. Say “ministry” and most of us picture a stage, a microphone, a title with “pastor” or “director” somewhere in it. Say “I’m in ministry” and people assume you work for a church. That’s not biblical ministry. […]

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]]> Leave the Drawer https://www.hopechurchatl.com/leave-the-drawer/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:30:00 +0000 https://www.hopechurchatl.com/?p=8042 Growing up, my mom was an elementary music teacher. She shared the role with two other women, and between the three of them they split up the whole school — each taking two grades, ten to twelve classes per grade. That meant my mom taught anywhere from 600 to 720 kids a year, plus a […]

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]]> “I’m Okay” (and Other Lies I Tell My Friends) https://www.hopechurchatl.com/im-okay-and-other-lies-i-tell-my-friends/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:30:00 +0000 https://www.hopechurchatl.com/?p=8020 Confession: I lie to my friends. Repeatedly. To their faces. It usually sounds harmless. “It’s really not a big deal.” “No worries, I’ve got it.” “This is about it.” And my personal favorite: “I’m okay.” I’ve said some version of these to people more times than I can count. One of my finest performances took […]

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]]> Assembly Required https://www.hopechurchatl.com/assembly-required/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:30:00 +0000 https://www.hopechurchatl.com/?p=7994 We are living in the age of doing it yourself. Self-checkout everywhere. Meal prep for one. Productivity hacks so you never have to ask anyone for help with anything, ever. Independence is the brand, and nobody needs anybody. And some of that is healthy. Knowing how to be alone matters. But somewhere along the way […]

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]]> Assemble. https://www.hopechurchatl.com/assemble/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:30:00 +0000 https://www.hopechurchatl.com/?p=7992 I’ve been rewatching every single Marvel movie — all 65-plus of them — getting ready for the new Avengers movie that comes out later this year. Yes, I have a plan. Yes, it’s color-coded. Don’t judge me. Recently, I arrived at Avengers: Endgame, and even knowing exactly what happens, that one scene still got me. […]

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]]> You Are Not a Rough Draft https://www.hopechurchatl.com/you-are-not-a-rough-draft/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:30:00 +0000 https://www.hopechurchatl.com/?p=7990 You know that voice. The one that shows up uninvited and starts listing everything wrong with you. Too much. Not enough. Behind. Broken. Forgettable. That voice is lying to you. Before you did a single thing — before you earned anything, fixed anything, or proved anything — God already decided you were worth loving. Not […]

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]]> Your Status in the Story https://www.hopechurchatl.com/your-status-in-the-story/ Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000 https://www.hopechurchatl.com/?p=7988 We started this series pretending we’d never read the story before — waking up mid-scene, no idea what’s going on, no idea who the villain is, no idea there’s a King. We spent weeks figuring out the plot: there’s a Villain who lies, steals, and destroys. There’s a King who rules through love instead of […]

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