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.