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Growing and Changing in Christ

Welcome to our blog! We are excited to launch a blog that will be helpful to our Living Hope church family and other churches that also want to “grow and change” into Christ’s image. We plan on posting various types of articles, both theological and practical from every area of living.

24
Jan

Clothed with Power (Acts 1:1-11)

Preached by Pastor Matt Black, January 24, 2021 at Living Hope of Roselle, Illinois. The entire book of Acts is how the whole world was transformed by…

13
Nov

Overcomers (Joshua 1)

The following sermon was preached by Matt Black at Living Hope on July 5, 2020. In the book of Exodus and Numbers, we get the pre-story. Joshua…

25
Mar

COVID-19:What is God saying to His Church?

Episode 1: Where is God in the Covid19 crisis? Episode 2: Jesus is exalted in His church (Rev 1) Episode 3: Don’t Lose Your First…

13
Mar

Online Only This Sunday

December 5, 2020 Dear Living Hope church family Dear saints, Due to sickness in a number of our families at LHBC, out of an abundance of caution,…

09
Oct

More Mercy in Christ than Sin in Us

The Puritan Richard Sibbes famously said, “There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us. Paul asked, “ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?”…

23
Mar

Dive Into God’s Love

God has poured out his kindness upon us. Every child of God needs to wade into the depths of God’s deep love for us. God had done…

heart Love sanctification

22
Mar

Does God Have Your Whole Heart?

The longer you delay in accepting the mercy and salvation which God has offered you, the longer God will hide his face. Yet God is merciful. If…

heart Love sanctification

22
Mar

Why We Fail to Change

Sin will take you farther than you want to go. In the days of Hosea, northern Israel delayed in repenting, and was “crushed in judgment” under the…

sanctification sin

22
Mar

Cures for Worldliness

Worldliness is compared in Hosea to spiritual prostitution. Truly “Ephraim played the whore” (Hosea 5:3). Israel (here called by their nickname of the largest tribe of the…

sanctification sin

22
Mar

Don’t Hide Your Sin

Our strategy when we turn to idols is to try and hide them. Strangely enough, the human heart becomes so dull and stupid with sin that we…

sanctification sin

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