Hometown Hope Ministries

This is a problematic topic in our day. Many religious people are grappling with this word and its meaning. Some build a following based...

"It is Better To Light A Candle Than Curse the Darkness" Eleanor Roosevelt Mark 3:5 5 And when he had looked round about on them with...

Paul cautions believers concerning the insidious nature of covetousness. The disparity between social classes was especially pronounced...

A church is a local assembly of baptized believers who have voluntarily joined themselves together, and organized themselves under the...

I found this article many years ago (written by another author) to be helpful and thought you would too. Modern psychology does not...

We all love the heroes' story! We love it even better when we are the hero! Or at least we love the idea of heroism, or being a hero....

Did you know that the family is a kind of government? ‌The most basic unit of government is self-government. Next, let us consider the...

Please read my two previous columns on this issue, HERE, and HERE. So if Christ is King over all, what does this mean for institutions...

“Every promise in the book is mine” is one of the overstatements of the century. Few Bible promises partake of such universality. In...

Over the last three weeks, we have considered how to measure a community's spiritual health. In our first article, we considered Jesus...

Oh. You aren't kidding. People have been reading articles online for a few years about marijuana being such a wonderful thing. It is even stated that marijuana use is supported by the Bible. This chorus is getting so loudly sung these days that many poorly trained Christians are even falling victim to this nonsense. The first verse offered is that the word, "Calamus" in the Bible is the word for Marijuana. The word "Calamus" in the Bible is found three times, all listed here.

An article that I read recently, and stored away, came back to me today. Although this article was not given from a biblical context, I...

In an address given to ministers and workers after his ninetieth birthday, George Mueller spoke thus of himself: “I was converted in...

The apologist for “alternative forms” of marriage first butchers Jesus’ statement in Matthew 19:11-12 misinterpreting and misapplying the...

This article will begin a short series of reflections on several verses of Scripture dealing with marriage. Today’s article is delicate...

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In our first article, we considered Jesus Christ as the master evaluator of communities. In the second article on this topic, we...

Another lesson today on this matter of assessing the spiritual health of a community. Part one is here Part two is here In order to know...

Part one is here. What would Jesus say about our community? By what means would he evaluate our current spiritual state? The answer to...

How do you measure the spiritual health of a community? Is the spiritual health of a community important? You better believe it is...