Words of Hope
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Episodes
February 19, 2024 • 45 mins
This sermon preached on Christmas Eve 2023 asks the question, "What shall we name the baby?" It's a discussion of the various names and titles applied to Jesus of Nazareth as a means to discovering His true identity and revealing His glory.
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February 18, 2024 • 43 mins
The Westminster Confession of Faith states, “The authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed, and obeyed, depends not upon the testimony of any man, or Church; but wholly upon God (who is truth itself) the author thereof: and therefore it is to be received, because it is the Word of God.”
As stated above, those who were at the forefront of the Protestant Reformation which began in 1517 took as one of their ...
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January 29, 2024 • 59 mins
The Apostle Paul wrote the letter to the Philippians from imprisonment in Rome awaiting trial before Emperor Nero. In the letter he expresses his doubts about whether he will will ever live as a free man again.
And yet, this epistle is filled with references to joy and rejoicing and an abiding confidence in Almighty God is evident throughout.
What was the source of Paul's confidence? How could he have peace in the midst of...
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October 22, 2023 • 48 mins
In this third sermon in the series How to Stand Firm in Christ, based on Philippians 4:1-9, Pastor Ron Burtz takes us through two more strategies for standing firm in the faith.
Verse 8 deals with what we feed our minds and the importance of thinking Christianly. You are what you train your mind on.
Then in dealing with verse 9 we'll talk about the importance of putting feet to our faith and putting in to practice the trut...
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October 15, 2023 • 47 mins
Two more keys to standing firm in Christ—finding spiritual stability—are revealed in this message, the second in the series, "How to Stand Firm in Christ."
In Philippians 4:4-7 the Apostle Paul calls on his readers to have an attitude of joyful humility and to worry about nothing but bring every care to God in prayer.
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October 9, 2023 • 41 mins
We live in an uncertain and downright dangerous world that can leave us feeling shaken and scared. But God's Word calls believers to stand firm like a faithful soldier defending his post and the Bible offers hope and strategies for finding spiritual stability amidst the storms of life.
This is the first message in a series of sermons on Philippians 4:1-9 that help us learn seven important strategies for standing firm in Chri...
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August 7, 2023 • 35 mins
Like people, government leaders and businesses, sometimes local churches lose their way and forget why we're here and what our true mission is in this world. This sermon is a reminder that the church exists to have a dynamic relationship with God through worship, prayer and the Word, a dynamic relationship with other believers through true and authentic Christian fellowship and a dynamic relationship with unbelievers through e...
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July 9, 2023 • 63 mins
A sermon on the doctrine of salvation based on Matthew 13:1-23
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May 14, 2023 • 39 mins
While the word "repentance" is found throughout the Bible in both Old and New Testaments, it seems to have fallen out of favor in the church in our day. It is thought by many to be a negative term, and yet it was at the forefront of the ministries of John the Baptist, Jesus Christ and the Apostles.
This message seeks to correct that misunderstanding and show the priority the Bible places upon repentance in the conversi...
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March 12, 2023 • 62 mins
In this study of Romans 1, Ron Burtz attempts to answer the questions "Where are we as a culture?" and "How did we decline so far and so fast?" This message looks at such biblical themes as the righteousness and wrath of God, the glorious gospel of Christ and how a society gets into a situation of being abandoned by God.
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February 25, 2023 • 39 mins
A message delivered to the annual Love One Another Banquet at Victory Baptist Church, Fullerton, NE on February 24, 2023. This message defines the Greek words Agape (love) and koinonia (fellowship) and calls the church to love one another with the love of Christ and live in God's intrusive community in true Christian fellowship.
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January 9, 2022 • 42 mins
In this final service at Hope Christian Reformed Church, former Pastor John Keizer returns to preach a special closing message to the congregation. Preaching from John 11 and the account of the Lord's raising of Lazarus, Pastor John brings a powerful message about the glory of God as it is displayed in all the events of our lives both happy and sad.
The service closes with the congregation singing "All Glory Be to Chris...
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January 2, 2022 • 45 mins
In a very personal address, Pastor Ron Burtz presents his final sermon to the congregation of Hope Christian Reformed Church.
At the same time he takes the opportunity to look at Acts 2:42-47 to ask and answer the question about the church, "Why Are We Here?"
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December 19, 2021 • 41 mins
Numerous songs and poems emphasize the fact that "Love came down at Christmas," but what kind of love is this? Why kind of love would motivate the Creator of the universe to become human Himself and go to a cross to suffer and die for the very creatures who had rebelled against Him?
Agape love. That's what kind of love came at Christmas. Join us as we explore this wonderful Greek word and see how God's love is...
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December 12, 2021 • 37 mins
Joy and its cousins rejoice and rejoicing is one of the most common terms in the traditional biblical Christmas narratives in Matthew and Luke. What could be the source of such unparalleled joy? It was the news that God had come in the form of a tiny baby.
This message is meant to help the listener find true Christmas joy through even in hard times through the application of a simple formula that involves Jesus, Others and You. ...
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December 5, 2021 • 39 mins
The world is looking for what it calls peace and, especially at Christmastime, the calls for world peace and harmony between nations and people groups seems to ramp up.
But is that the kind of "peace on earth" the angels were talking about when they sang "peace on earth, goodwill toward men?"
This sermon examines the peace of Christmas showing that the announcement of the angels was one of declaring peace bet...
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November 29, 2021 • 42 mins
Hope. Peace. Joy. Love.
Four words that are intimately associated with the Christmas season. In this Advent series, Pastor Ron Burtz shows how those four terms and concepts form the message of Christmas to the world.
This message deals with Hope and shows Christ as the only hope for mankind.
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November 14, 2021 • 42 mins
Throughout this series we have asked and answered the question "How does a person get right with God?" showing how each of the 5 solas of the Reformation brings a part of the answer.
Today we consider what may be the ultimate existential question: "What is the meaning of life?"
In a world where ultimate truth and the God of the Bible have been rejected, that is a difficult question to answer.
This message sh...
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November 9, 2021 • 46 mins
The Apostle Paul wrote to his protege, young Pastor Timothy, "For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time."
Christ alone is the Savior, the sacrifice for sinners and the mediator between God and man.
This sermon examines the meaning of the cry of the Reformers, "Sola Christos," and celebrate...
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October 31, 2021 • 44 mins
The doctrine of Justification by Faith, embodied in the Latin phrase Sola Fide could not be more clear in Ephesians 2:8, "For by grace you have been saved by faith..."
This was the defining material principle of the Protestant Reformation and it remains for all time the focus of true Christian faith.
In this message we'll see the two faces of faith—faith to save and faith to live.
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