• The Twelve
    Nov 2 2025

    The twelve disciples are a unique group of individuals. In this sermon, we look at what Jesus called the twelve to, and the ragamuffin group that they were that become a united team for Christ.

    Series: The Gospel of Mark
    Speaker: Steve Treichler
    Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

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    43 mins
  • The Rigidity of Rules and the Relief of Grace
    Oct 26 2025

    Jesus heals a man. That should be the end of the story but it’s not. The religious leaders take offense that he did so on the Sabbath. That breaks the rules. Well, that breaks their rules. How does the rest of the account go? That’s what we explore in this message.

    Series: The Gospel of Mark
    Speaker: Cor Chmieleski
    Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

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    47 mins
  • Four Surprises and Four Responses
    Oct 19 2025

    Jesus Christ is a surprising Savior to many who were looking for a different kind of king. He is the just as surprising today. How we respond to this Jesus, who cannot be put in a box of our own making, is what it is all about. We see this in four ways in this week’s passage.

    Series: The Gospel of Mark
    Speaker: Steve Treichler
    Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

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    42 mins
  • Paralyzed on the Inside
    Oct 12 2025

    We live like the world is our movie and wonder why we are exhausted. In Mark 2:1–12, Jesus goes beneath the surface and heals the real injury; he forgives before he fixes, proves it in public, and pays at the cross as the scarred Lamb who went down so we could rise. This is not another self improvement strategy; it is the end of auditioning. Discover how to trade your "main character energy" for God's invitation to come home.

    Series: The Gospel of Mark
    Speaker: Davis Johnson
    Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

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    46 mins
  • The Touch of God
    Oct 5 2025

    In a story that begins and ends in the wilderness, Jesus reverses everything we expect about purity and power. He doesn’t become unclean by touching the leper—His touch spreads outward, making the condemned accepted, the isolated surrounded, and the untouchable touched. The passage reveals not just a healer, but a Savior who trades places with the sinner so that all might come in.

    Series: The Gospel of Mark
    Speaker: Cor Chmieleski
    Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

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    41 mins
  • A Day of Authority on Display
    Sep 28 2025

    Four weeks into our study of the Gospel of Mark and we already are going to see the authority of Jesus Christ on display during one of his earliest recorded days of ministry. And the response of others is amazing! Join us as we look how a right view of Christ in our lives changes everything!

    Series: The Gospel of Mark
    Speaker: Steve Treichler
    Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

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    45 mins
  • Seen, Called, Recreated
    Sep 21 2025

    We spend much of life trying to make ourselves matter: chasing happiness, striving for achievement, always trying to be enough. While calling his first disciples, Jesus interrupts our exhausting pursuit with a better word. What if the life you are working so hard to create could only be found by following the One who already sees you, calls you, and makes you new?

    Series: The Gospel of Mark
    Speaker: Davis Johnson
    Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

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    42 mins
  • Breadcrumbs show the way
    Sep 14 2025

    This gospel is shorter and its pace quicker than the other accounts of Jesus. We’re given breadcrumbs to follow rather than lengthy explanations to digest. These breadcrumbs are clues regarding who Jesus is and what he came to do. Who’s ready to see where they lead?

    Series: The Gospel of Mark
    Speaker: Cor Chmieleski
    Hope Community Church - Downtown Minneapolis

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    46 mins