Sunday Service: December 21, 2025 • Pastor Q Kim at HOPE Church in Clarksville, MD ---

Sunday Service: December 14, 2025 • Pastor Q Kim at HOPE Church in Clarksville, MD ---

Pastor Q’s sermon explores the Christmas story through the often-overlooked perspective of Joseph. Drawing from Matthew 1:18–25, the sermon highlights Joseph’s righteousness, compassion, and obedient faith as he faces the shocking news of Mary’s pregnancy. Rather than reacting in anger or shame, Joseph listens for God’s voice, responds with mercy, and obeys immediately when God speaks through an angel. The sermon unpacks the significance of the virgin birth, Jesus’ name and mission, and what it meant for God to entrust His Son to imperfect but faithful human parents. Ultimately, this message reminds us that Christmas is about Emmanuel—God with us—and calls believers to live with obedience, integrity, and trust in God’s purposes, even when the cost is high.

Sunday Service: December 7, 2025 • Guest Preacher, Pastor Carlos Reyes at HOPE Church in Clarksville, MD ---

Pastor Carlos’ sermon centered on the conviction that marriage is sacred, difficult, and designed by God to reflect His image, beginning with the creation of male and female as “one.” He warned that modern culture—through declining marriage rates, cohabitation, sexual permissiveness, and shifting gender norms—pulls people away from Scripture’s vision, making marriage seem optional or secondary. Drawing on his own 50 years of marriage, he emphasized that faithfulness, patience, character, and covenant love (not romance or convenience) are the heart of a godly union. He urged men to lead with integrity, women to embrace their God-given role as helpers, and young people to honor sexuality within marriage and resist cultural pressures. PC emphasizes that marriage requires hard work, spiritual grounding, and reliance on the Holy Spirit, but that when couples pursue it God’s way, their union becomes a testimony, a legacy, and a living image of God to the world.

Sunday Service: November 30, 2025 • Pastor Jason Choi at HOPE Church in Clarksville, MD ---

Pastor Jason teaches that the Church is entering a crucial season requiring deep spiritual discernment—not simply distinguishing good from bad, but discerning what is good from what is truly God. Using 2 Timothy 3, he warns that many things may appear godly yet lack the power of God, and believers must grow sharp in recognizing the difference. He explains five key “S’s” of Christian identity—son, servant, sinner, saint, and soldier—and emphasizes that becoming a soldier of Christ strengthens discernment by freeing us from the distractions and comforts of “civilian” living and calling us to simple, obedient, mission-focused faith. Yet while we live as soldiers in our waking moments, we rest as sons and daughters who enjoy the Father’s unwavering love and smiling presence, especially in seasons of darkness. Just as a child needs a nightlight to see their parent’s loving face, Christians need places of spiritual encouragement—community, prayer, worship—to remind them of God’s delight in them. Ultimately, discernment grows through obedience, identity, and intimacy with the Father, whose faithfulness remains even when ours falters.

Sunday Service: November 16, 2025 • Pastor Q Kim at HOPE Church in Clarksville, MD ---

Pastor Q’s sermon, “Stephen, the First Martyr,” traces Stephen’s godly character, bold witness, and sacrificial death as the first Christian martyr. He highlights how Stephen, a Spirit-filled servant chosen in Acts 6, displayed extraordinary wisdom, grace, and power—so much so that opponents could not refute him and resorted to lies, stirring hostility that led to his arrest. In Acts 7 Stephen responds with a sweeping retelling of Israel’s history, exposing Israel’s pattern of resisting God and ultimately rejecting the Righteous One, Jesus. Enraged, the leaders stone him, yet Stephen sees Jesus standing at God’s right hand and dies with Christlike forgiveness on his lips. Though Stephen’s life seems cut short, God uses his martyrdom to scatter believers to Judea and Samaria, fulfilling Acts 1:8, and his death deeply impacts Saul, who will later become Paul. PQ concludes that Stephen’s “crown” reminds us that God redeems suffering, advances the unstoppable gospel through hardship, and calls the church to faithfulness, hope, and courageous witness even in difficult seasons.

Sunday Service: November 9, 2025 • Pastor Q Kim at HOPE Church in Clarksville, MD ---

Pastor Q’s sermon on Acts 6:1–7 focused on how the early church—though filled with the Holy Spirit and rapidly growing—still faced internal problems, specifically conflict and feelings of unfairness among believers. The Hellenistic (Greek-speaking) Jews complained that their widows were being overlooked in daily food distribution, revealing both administrative challenges and potential cultural tension within the church. Instead of ignoring the issue, the apostles acknowledged the problem and wisely delegated responsibility by appointing seven spiritually mature, wise, and reputable men—among them Stephen and Philip—to oversee this ministry, while the apostles devoted themselves to prayer and preaching. PQ emphasized that healthy churches, like healthy marriages, are not those without problems, but those that handle conflict with humility, respect, and dependence on God. The early church’s solution reflected grace, inclusivity, and the Spirit’s guidance—choosing even Greek-named and non-Jewish believers as leaders—which led to greater unity, growth, and a continued spread of the gospel. PQ reminded the congregation that every problem can be an opportunity for God’s love, wisdom, and power to be revealed in the body of Christ.

Sunday Service: November 2, 2025 • Pastor Q Kim at HOPE Church in Clarksville, MD ---

Pastor Q’s sermon on Acts 5:17–42 focused on the apostles’ bold obedience to God in the face of persecution and how God turned opposition into opportunity. He recounted how the high priest and Sadducees, jealous of the apostles’ growing influence, imprisoned them, only for an angel to miraculously set them free and command them to continue preaching “the message of this life.” Despite threats and beatings, Peter and the apostles declared, “We must obey God rather than men,” boldly testifying that Jesus—whom their accusers crucified—had been exalted by God as Savior. Pastor Q emphasized that true faith means living under God’s authority, not seeking comfort or approval from the world. He reminded listeners that suffering for Christ is not a curse but a privilege, a mark of being “worthy to suffer shame for His name.” In contrast to a self-centered or prosperity-focused faith, he urged believers to revolve their lives around God, finding joy and purpose even in trials for the sake of Christ.

Sunday Service: October 26, 2025 • Pastor Jason Choi at HOPE Church in Clarksville, MD ---

Pastor Jason’s sermon calls the Church to awaken from spiritual complacency and grow in discernment amid a confused and deceptive world. He warns against false prophecies and superficial spirituality, emphasizing that true understanding comes only through abiding in God’s Word. Using practical illustrations, he reminds believers that following Christ means seeking His will—not comfort, wealth, or popularity—and that the Bible promises God’s comfort, not a comfortable life. He urges Christians to recognize the times, embrace discipleship over mere conversion, and long sincerely for Christ’s return. Ultimately, Pastor Jason centers the message on the finished work of Jesus—the blood of the Lamb—as the believer’s unshakable hope and identity, urging the Church to “make much of Christ” above all else.