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This Sunday, Pastor Miguel reminded us in Mark 14:1-11 that Christ is our ultimate gift. Mary’s anointing of Jesus displays how He is worthy of our entire devotion and extravagant love, all of which is motivated by His saving grace to us. As we draw nearer to Christmas day, let us be reminded of the precious gift of Christ who took on human flesh to live the perfect ...

Everyone values something. When we speak of our values, we mean that there are things we esteem as most important above all. We tend to see these things as indispensable to the way that we think, live, and invest. When speaking of a church's values, we usually mean that there are certain theological positions and practices that outline how we see Christianity working. A ch...

Here are seven ingredients for healthy sermon listening: 1. Expect God to speak. Look up next Sunday’s Bible passage and read it at home during the week. Pray for next Sunday’s preacher in the middle of the week. Pray often for yourself, that, by His Spirit, God will grow in you a heartfelt expectation that God Himself will speak to you as His word is pre...

Recently, a Pastor friend of mine posted several quotes on Twitter from Darrin Patrick’s new book, "The Dude’s Guide to Manhood", so I decided to give it a look myself. I hopped on Amazon, searched the title and up came this bright yellow book cover with a burly beard silhouette. From the cover alone I was sold! All kidding aside though, as I read Darrin’...

Recently, I finished reading a new book by Michael Reeves, “Enjoying your Prayer Life.” Many of you may be familiar with another book written by this author that many of us at HRF have been raving about called “Delighting in the Trinity”, by the way, is a must read. While this book is only 46 pages, it has been a very helpful resource that gets to t...

Last Sunday, I preached on Mark 2:23-3:6.  One of the points that I brought out from that text was that there is only two types of ways to be made right with God - theres religion and there's the Gospel.  Here are two videos of Tim Keller sharing the difference between Religion and The Gospel. Religion says "I obey, therefore God must accept me." The Go...

I write this for three reasons: I wanted to recap my first year serving in the Pastoral Residency at Hampton Roads Fellowship. My desire to see men take a biblical path to prepare for Pastoral Ministry by means of a healthy local church. To provide a framework for those who may be discerning a call to the pastoral ministry to consider if God may be calling them to spe...

Paul Tripp on "How in the World Do People Change Anyway?"....

We're excited to announce that we will be preaching through the Gospel of Mark beginning January 5, 2014. The Gospel of Mark is the earlist written and shortest of the four gospels. You can read through the entire book in about 40 minutes. Here are a few highlights that we find in the Gospel of Mark: Mark is very much a tell-it-like-it-is sort of Gospel, and actions...

What role does preaching play in the life of the church? It would probably be best to define what we mean by preaching—the heralding of good news, the proclamation of the gospel, the sharing of the inspired Word of God. This preaching should be expository, meaning the point of the sermon is the point of the passage or the point of the passage is the point of the se...