Hope Church NYC

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We had a blast at our Young Adults Retreat 💛 What a gift to spend a weekend away filled with rest, laughter, and meaning...
06/03/2026

We had a blast at our Young Adults Retreat 💛 What a gift to spend a weekend away filled with rest, laughter, and meaningful connections with this incredible community!

06/03/2026

When we talk about belonging to a church, it’s easy to imagine we’re looking for the place with the right people, the right culture, the right leaders, and the fewest disappointments.

But the church has never been a gathering of perfect people. It’s a community where imperfect people keep learning how to live by the Spirit together.

And that matters because the fruit of the Spirit isn’t formed in isolation. Love, patience, kindness, gentleness, and self-control are relational.

They grow in the very places where we’re stretched, misunderstood, inconvenienced, and invited to keep showing up anyway.

We don’t show up because we believe people will never disappoint us. We show up because we believe the Holy Spirit is present and at work, forming something in us that we couldn’t grow on our own.

05/29/2026

In Luke 15, Jesus tells a story about a father with two sons.

One son runs from home, rejects his father, wastes everything he was given, and eventually realizes how far he has fallen. His sin is obvious.

But the other son stays home. He works hard. He follows the rules. He does the responsible thing. And yet, when his younger brother is welcomed home, his resentment comes to the surface. He is angry, entitled, and unable to celebrate grace because he thinks his obedience should have earned him more.

That is the part of the story many of us miss.

Sin is not only the obvious rebellion we can easily name. It can also hide inside good things: productivity, responsibility, career, family, reputation, or being seen as dependable.

Those things are not bad. But when they become the thing we build our identity around, they start to shape us. We live with pride when we have them and fear when we might lose them.

The good news is that God’s love meets us in both places: when we are ashamed of what we have done, and when we are still hiding behind all the good things we think should make us worthy.

In Jesus, we are not invited to fix ourselves so God will love us. We are invited to come home to the love that makes real change possible.

Sometimes we expect the Holy Spirit to show up only in the extraordinary moments.The healing. The breakthrough. The mome...
05/28/2026

Sometimes we expect the Holy Spirit to show up only in the extraordinary moments.

The healing. The breakthrough. The moment that feels powerful, obvious, and impossible to explain apart from God.

And yes, the Spirit can absolutely move in those ways.
But the story of Scripture gives us a wider imagination.

The Holy Spirit is not only given for the moments that look dramatic from the outside. The Spirit is the presence of God animating all of life, including the parts of life that look ordinary, practical, creative, repetitive, or unseen.

That means your work matters. Your care matters. Your creativity matters. Your decisions matter. The way you serve, lead, parent, teach, build, listen, cook, create, organize, and show up for the people around you can become a place where the Spirit of God is at work.

The Holy Spirit has always been meant to fill ordinary people in ordinary places for the good of others and the glory of God.

05/26/2026

This week in our Grounded series, we looked at one of the most personal lines of the Apostles’ Creed: “I believe in the forgiveness of sins.”

That line isn’t just about believing God forgives people in theory. It means we can stop pretending we have nothing to confess.

For some of us, admitting we were wrong feels almost impossible. We defend, explain, minimize, compare, or find ways to make the blame bounce off of us.

But 1 John tells us that when we refuse to acknowledge our sin, we deceive ourselves. We stay in the dark.

The good news is that God’s light is not meant to shame us. It’s meant to bring us into the truth. And because Jesus came to save sinners, we don’t have to be afraid of being honest.

To believe in the forgiveness of sins is to believe that what is true about us is already known by God, and still Jesus invites us into mercy.

It’s officially rooftop season (praise be😭) Come to the Hub this Sunday for our Memorial Day Weekend Rooftop Hang!Cost i...
05/22/2026

It’s officially rooftop season (praise be😭) Come to the Hub this Sunday for our Memorial Day Weekend Rooftop Hang!

Cost is $5 and we’ll have snacks and drinks.
RSVP in the link in bio!

05/21/2026

We’re in a series walking through the Apostles’ Creed and asking what these ancient words have to do with our everyday lives.

This past Sunday, we looked at the line: “He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father.”

And what we saw is that the ascension is not just about where Jesus went. It shows us who Jesus is right now: reigning, present, and still at work in the world.

That does not mean every prayer is answered the way we hope. It does not mean every sickness is healed right now or every injustice is immediately made right.

But it does mean we can pray, serve, advocate, and hope because Jesus is already reigning.

The kingdom of God is already and not yet. Jesus reigns now, and one day, everything broken will be made right.

05/20/2026

This clip is part of a bigger conversation about how Scripture invites us to face hard questions with hope, not fear, and how the character of God shapes the way we read even the hardest passages.

🎧Listen to the full episode ‘What Happens After We Die?’ On our Hope Church NYC YouTube channel.

05/14/2026

Faith is often talked about like it means turning off your mind. Like being a Christian means forcing yourself to believe something unbelievable.

But Christian faith is not built on wishful thinking. It’s built on the resurrection of Jesus: the claim that he was killed and raised from the dead.

Even in Luke’s account, the first disciples did not find the resurrection easy to believe.

The women came to the tomb expecting death. When they told the apostles Jesus was alive, the apostles thought it sounded like nonsense. Peter still ran to the tomb and walked away wondering what had happened.

But their faith did not grow out of pretending. It grew out of what they encountered, investigated, witnessed, and eventually built their lives on.

As Pastor Jordan points out, the resurrection is built on both evidence and experience: the reliability of the Gospels, the persistence of the early Christians, the shared confession of Christians across time and place, and the lived experience of people who know Jesus as alive.

Faith is not pretending something unbelievable is true.
It’s the courage to build your life on the risen Jesus.

You can know God is good, know God is near, know the hope of the resurrection — and still feel overwhelmed by what you’r...
05/13/2026

You can know God is good, know God is near, know the hope of the resurrection — and still feel overwhelmed by what you’re carrying.

Sometimes what you need isn’t another explanation — it’s God’s presence in the place where information alone can’t reach.

That’s part of the hope of the resurrection: Jesus meets people in real fear, real grief, real confusion, and real darkness.

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