Hope EFC Monroe WI

05/07/2026

We have something for EVERYONE!

Tools
Mini fridges
Antiques
Home furnishings
Furniture
Computers
Kitchen ware and small appliances
Decor
Rugs
Clothes of all sorts and sizes
And much more

04/18/2026

Hello Hope Church!
If you are available this afternoon we are helping at Lisa's place to wrap up the moving out process. We will have a truck there, and extra hands are needed to pack and move things out. Message Pastor Tim if you need the address.

We are also looking into ways in the coming days to help with the damage in Lena and surrounding communities. We will keep you updated as we go forward.
As we come together tomorrow, we can praise God for His care even in the storms of life!

04/13/2026

Please join us for our annual Spring into tea! Invite a neighbor, a friend, or a relative! You can register with the link below.

04/09/2026

Something of Everything

04/03/2026

Join us this weekend as we celebrate the Hope of the resurrection of Jesus!

03/07/2026

Don’t forget! Change your clocks now so you don’t forget (plus, you get supper early today!)

See you at 9:30am future time tomorrow!

12/25/2025

12/22/2025

Join us with your family and friends this Wednesday night at 6pm as we celebrate the birth of Jesus!

12/06/2025

Our temporary Advent reading - please pick up a free copy of "Joy To The World" by John Piper at church tomorrow (or before if you stop by during the day today).

December 6
Peace to those with whom he's pleased
“And this will be a sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger." And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom He is pleased!" – Luke 2:12–14

There is a somber note sounded in the angels praise. The peace is for those on whom His favor rests, among those with whom He is pleased. We know that without faith, it is impossible to please God, so Christmas does not bring peace to all.
"This is the judgment:" Jesus said, "the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their work were evil" (John 3:19). Or as the aged Simeon said when he saw the child, Jesus, “Behold this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed…that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed" (Luke 2:34–35). O, how many there are who look out on a bleak and chilly Christmas Day and see no more than that.
"He came to His own, and His own people did not receive Him. But to all who did receive Him… He gave the right to become children of God." (John 1:11–12). It was only to His disciples that Jesus said, “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid" (John 14:27).
The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God. The people who enjoy the peace of God that surpasses all understanding are those who in everything by prayer and supplication let their requests be made known to God. So Paul prays, “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing" (Romans 15:13). And when we trust the promises of God and have joy and peace and love, then God is glorified.
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace to men with whom He is pleased – men who would believe.

12/05/2025

Our temporary Advent reading - please pick up a free copy of "Joy To The World" by John Piper at church this Sunday (or before if you stop by during the week).

December 5
No Detour From Calvary
And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. - Luke 2:6-7

Now, you would think that if God's so rules the world as to use an empire-wide census to bring Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem, He surely could have seemed to it that a room was available in the inn.
Yes, He could have. And Jesus could have been born into a wealthy family. He could have turned stones into bread in the wilderness. He could have called 10,000 angels to His aid in Gethsemane. He could have come down from the cross and saved Himself. The question is not what God could do, but what He willed to do.
God's will was that though Christ was rich, yet for your sake, He became poor. The “No Vacancy” signs over all the motels in Bethlehem were for your sake. "For your sake, He became poor" (2 Corinthians 8:9). God rules all things – even motel capacities – for the sake of His children. The Calvary road begins with a “No Vacancy” sign in Bethlehem and ends with the spitting and scoffing of the cross in Jerusalem.
We must not forget that He said, "if anyone would come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross" (Matthew 16:24). We joined him on the Calvary road and hear Him say, “Remember the word that I said to you: ‘a servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you" (John 15:20).
To the one who calls out enthusiastically, "I will follow you wherever you go!" (Matthew 8:19), Jesus responds, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head" (Matthew 8:20).
Yes, God could have seen to it that Jesus had a room at His birth. But that would have been a detour off the Calvary road.

12/04/2025

Our temporary Advent reading - please pick up a free copy of "Joy To The World" by John Piper at church this Sunday (or before if you stop by during the week).

December 4
For God's Ordinary People
In those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinias was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. - Luke 2:1-5

Have you ever thought what an amazing thing it is that God ordained beforehand that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem (as the prophecy in Micah five shows); and that He so ordained things that when the time came, the Messiah's mother and legal father were living in Nazareth; and that in order to fulfill His word and bring two insignificant people to Bethlehem that first Christmas, God put it in the heart of Caesar Augustus that all the Roman world should be enrolled, each in his own town?
Have you ever felt, like me, ordinary and insignificant in a world of 7 billion people, where all the news is of big political and economic and social movements and of outstanding people with lots of power and prestige?
If you have, don't let that make you disheartened or unhappy. For it is implicit in Scripture that all the mammoth political forces and all the giant industrial complex complexes, without their even knowing it, are being guided by God, not for their own sake before the sake of God's ordinary people– the ordinary Mary and the ordinary Joseph who have to be moved from Nazareth to Bethlehem. God wields an empire to bless His children.
Do not think, because you experience adversity, that the hand of the Lord is shortened. It is not our prosperity, but our holiness that He seeks with all His heart. And by that end, He rules the whole world. As Proverbs 21:1 says, “The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; He turns it wherever He will."
He is a big god for ordinary people, and we have a great cause to rejoice that, unbeknownst to them, all the kings and presidents and premieres and chancellors of the world follow the sovereign decrease of our Father in heaven so that we, the children, might be conformed to the image of His Son, Jesus Christ.