In Mark 14, Jesus shares the Passover meal with his disciples, and we see two ways to become clean and whole: the Old Covenant, where we provide the sacrifice, and the New Covenant, where God does. Living under the law is like trying to rake every leaf out of the yard, but Jesus is the Passover Lamb, offered once for all. The gospel tells us that the only clean and whole person at the table is the very one who qualifies us to sit there.

Series: The Gospel of Mark
Speaker: Paul Stiver
Hope Community Church - North Lakes

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• (00:08) - Welcome to Hope North Lakes
• (01:45) - The Passover Meal and Its Meaning
• (05:58) - The First Passover: A Lamb’s Blood
• (10:05) - Jesus Announces a Betrayal
• (12:49) - The New Covenant: What It Means
• (17:10) - Why the Old Covenant Required Blood
• (18:57) - The Law Cannot Make Us Whole
• (22:43) - Jesus Establishes the New Covenant
• (26:01) - Jesus, the True Passover Lamb
• (27:58) - Christ’s Once-for-All Sacrifice
• (31:34) - Communion: Remembering Jesus’ Sacrifice
• (34:11) - An Invitation to Friendship and Forgiveness
• (34:53) - All Are Welcome at Jesus’ Table
• (36:59) - An Invitation to Trust and Receive

In Mark 14, a woman breaks a jar of costly perfume over Jesus while Judas agrees to betray him, showing us it’s one thing to be around Jesus and another to belong to him. This happens because of idolatry — the sin underneath the sin — which means the gospel is urgent for Christians and non-Christians alike, because in the gospel, Jesus was exchanged for us. See why the cross isn’t a waste, and why we can pour out our lives for the Savior who poured out his life for us.

Series: The Gospel of Mark
Speaker: Paul Stiver
Hope Community Church - North Lakes

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• (00:06) - Church Updates and Vision
• (06:50) - Mark 14 Context
• (09:38) - Mary’s Extravagant Gift
• (20:57) - Devotion and Betrayal
• (24:44) - Near Jesus, Yet Apart
• (31:49) - Living Sacrifice Worship
• (34:16) - The Cross and Salvation
• (35:52) - The Great Exchange

A passage like Mark 13 that is laden with so many words of judgment and end times predictions can cause anxiety for us. What does Jesus really want us to take away from his words? Hold fast to Jesus, wait well, and keep the main thing the main thing by sharing the good news. We can only do these things because Jesus holds fast to us, and that changes everything.

Series: The Gospel of Mark
Speaker: Paul Stiver
Hope Community Church - North Lakes

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• (00:05) - Emergency Preparedness
• (04:56) - Mark Recap
• (09:27) - Preparing the Disciples
• (10:14) - Temple Collapse Warning
• (13:21) - Deception and Disaster
• (15:24) - Witness Under Trial
• (21:05) - Betrayal and Desolation
• (26:23) - The Coming of the Son
• (29:31) - Stay Awake Always
• (30:47) - Descriptive or Prescriptive
• (34:05) - Three Takeaways
• (37:59) - Temple and Cross
• (40:44) - Hold Fast and Wait Well

Jesus says our cultural engagement should always start with loving like him: “Be formed to love like me by remaining connected to me” and that should lead to unity. But our world and even our churches don’t always feel united. How can looking to Jesus first reshape our intuitions by reshaping what forms us?

Series: Jesus First: Engaging Christ, Engaging the World
Speaker: Paul Stiver
Hope Community Church - North Lakes

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• (00:08) - Welcome and Purpose in Culture
• (01:41) - Suffering and Future Glory
• (05:58) - The Spirit’s Help in Weakness
• (07:19) - God’s Purpose in Us
• (09:13) - Formed Like Jesus
• (12:16) - Abiding in the Vine
• (16:17) - Love as the Command
• (18:21) - Christ Formed in You
• (22:01) - Intuition Shapes Our Views
• (27:57) - Open Hands, Not Ultimates
• (30:48) - Freedom in Gray Areas
• (33:09) - Fleshly Patterns Exposed
• (35:07) - Jesus First, Others First
• (39:41) - The Cross Shapes Us

Before we can assess ourselves honestly or engage anyone well, we have to look to Jesus first. We're saved by grace, not by works, not even our good ones. We don't earn status with God, rather we live out a relationship with him by the power of the Holy Spirit. Only from there can we begin to look like Christ toward the people we encounter, especially the ones we disagree with.

Series: Jesus First: Engaging Christ, Engaging the World
Speaker: Paul Stiver
Hope Community Church - North Lakes

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• (00:07) - Pickle and Polarization
• (03:41) - Kingdom Over Binaries
• (14:27) - Living Water Offered
• (17:48) - Truth Reveals Shame
• (23:18) - Jesus Cuts Through
• (28:27) - Fully Known, Fully Loved
• (31:38) - Personal, Not Performative
• (35:38) - Cross Completes Mercy

To look to Jesus without looking to the whole Jesus is to get him wrong. In this first message of the Jesus First series, we look to Christ as Savior and Lord. We see how his authority, his truth, his compassion, and his example all meet at the cross. He is the one who perfectly lives out the gospel; we don't. He is on the throne; we're not. And when we see him for who he is, it changes the way we engage the world around us.

Series: Jesus First
Speaker: Paul Stiver
Hope Community Church - North Lakes

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• (00:15) - Welcome Dylan
• (02:25) - Our Church Origin Story
• (06:05) - The Gospel of First Importance
• (13:21) - God’s Grand Story
• (18:43) - Fractured by False Stories
• (22:58) - Four Ways to Look to Jesus
• (34:38) - The Cross Reveals Jesus
• (36:05) - The Coming Restoration
• (37:07) - Invited Into His Story

It can be so easy to buy into the notion that if we just do enough research, plan our lives well, and practice enough discipline we will avoid trouble. But trouble finds us in a broken world, and where we place our trust when the waves of life come crashing over us reveals what we actually worship.

Series: Jesus First
Speaker: Paul Stiver
Hope Community Church - North Lakes

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• (00:10) - Baptism and Birthdays
• (01:37) - Jesus First Series
• (04:20) - Trouble Comes Anyway
• (07:08) - Reading Psalm 91
• (09:59) - Understanding Biblical Trouble
• (15:14) - Jesus Faces the Test
• (19:45) - New Life Says No
• (22:43) - Deliverance From and Through
• (27:18) - Trouble Is Promised
• (33:14) - Jesus Takes Our Trouble
• (36:22) - Response and Communion

What does it mean to worship together? The Bible says that God made us, wants to make us his own, and that God is good. Jesus comes as the good shepherd to lay down his life for the sheep, give us new hearts, and bring us home to God. Only when we understand this will we be a community that worships together by finding our joy in God and responding to God with thanks and praise.

Series: Psalms
Speaker: Paul Stiver
Hope Community Church - North Lakes

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• (00:08) - Worship, Community, and Joy
• (01:39) - School Year Blessing
• (02:49) - Worshiping Together Today
• (04:53) - God Our Maker
• (09:21) - Made His Own
• (13:10) - Good and Faithful Shepherd
• (17:53) - Lost Sheep Rejoice