Hopewell Baptist Church

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

“Samson: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly” was preached by Pastor Mike Ray at Hopewell Baptist Church on Sunday morning (Western Sunday), 8/15/2021. If you have your Bibles, let’s open them to the book of Judges, chapter 13. We’ve been in Judges on Sunday nights. We will just about finish up this morning. Some of your old-timers will remember this tune. It’s the tune to that old western, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. So, today on Western Sunday, we’re talking about some people you’ve dated a ...

Book of James Part 2: Get The Sin Out

"The Book of James Part 2: Get the Sin Out" was preached by Pastor Mike Ray at Hopewell Baptist Church on Sunday evening, 8/15/2021. You can watch the video archive of this sermon on our church website. You can also watch archived services on Vimeo, YouTube, Medium, or audio podcast. Stay up to date by following us on Facebook and Instagram. Hopewell Baptist Church is an Independent Baptist Church in Napa, California pastored by Mike Ray. It is Bible-based with a warm, friendly atmosphere. ...

Get The Sin Out

Christ Is All I Need

The following sermon excerpt entitled “Christ is All I Need” was preached by Jonathan Ray at Hopewell Baptist Church on Wednesday evening, 8/11/2021. Because many just got back from camp last week, decisions are fresh on our minds. Sermons about going home changed and living godly lives result in decisions. I remember the ride back from camp with a list of decisions. I am going home changed. The topic of tonight’s sermon was not clear in mind, though. I had the idea that I was going to go hom...

James Part 1: Patience

The following sermon excerpt entitled “The Book of James Part 1: Patience” was preached on Sunday evening by Pastor Mike Ray at Hopewell Baptist Churchon Sunday evening, 8/8/2021. If you have your Bibles, let’s open them please to the book of James and chapter 1. And we’re going to look at a little background to this book, and then we’ll try to teach and preach a little of the first section here. I’m going to read the first twelve verses this is all we’re going to deal with tonight. Notice ho...

The Pillow People

He Sent A Man Before Them

Leading A Soul To Christ Part 1

The Man At The Temple

Pentecost or the Temple

Praying Ground

If you have your Bibles, would you open them, please, toward the end of the book of First Peter? First Peter chapter number three. We’re going to just look at one verse, 1 Peter 3:12: “For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers…” I want to focus on that little phrase, “His ears are open unto their prayers.” I want to speak this morning on this subject: “Getting on Praying Ground.” We believe that God hears prayer, but sometimes we wonder, “Is He ...

Surviving The Sift

Samson (Part 1)

The Woman Caught In Adultery

A Mighty Man

A Mighty Man or a Waste of a Wonderful Thing

Living With A Javelin In Your Hand

Below is an excerpt from the sermon... If you have your Bibles, we will look at one verse in Hebrews and then the rest of the story in 1 Samuel tonight. Let’s look over to the book of Hebrews Chapter 12. We’ve been in the book of Judges, talking about defeat through feelings. This story tonight actually takes place during the time of the judges. But notice the theme verse or the doctrinal verse that surrounds the whole study tonight. Look at this in Hebrews 12. If you have it, let’s look at i...

Give God Your Lunch

Below is a excerpt from the sermon... John 6:1–11 “After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias. 2. And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased. 3. And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples. 4. And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh. 5. When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy brea...

Dissolving Doubts

The following is an excerpt from the sermon... Go ahead and take your Bibles. Turn with me in your Bibles and find Psalm Chapter 73. And we’re going to look down in a couple of verses here. We won’t read the whole chapter. We’re going to highlight a couple of things. So, in preparing, this sermon, I want you to take a little bit of a journey with me and know my thought process in this. There are some sermons that are like meat and potatoes meals — they are good for you, and you need a constan...

Gideon Pt. 2

1st vs 2nd Generation Christians

Helping Young People

Gideon

The Man by the Pool

Raising Teenagers

Unlikely Heroines

Woman At The Well

John chapter 4. Let’s look down into verse number one. Last week we began a series on Conversations with Jesus. Last week He talked to Nicodemus about being born again. This week He speaks to one lady that is unnamed. Her name is not mentioned in the Bible. The power of a conversation. Man’s words are powerful; God’s words are supernatural. Her life would never be the same after this talk. And so, let’s look at this wonderful passage here. John 4:1–6: “When therefore the Lord knew how the Ph...

Defeat Through Feelings

Born Again

Solving Life’s Issues

How To Have A Super Summer

Below is an excerpt from the sermon... If you have your Bibles, let’s open them, please, for just a moment to the book of Ecclesiastes. You don’t have to know how to spell it to find it because it’s right after Proverbs. Ecclesiastes. We’re going to look down in chapter number 1 in just a moment. I want to speak this evening on this subject, as it’s the first Sunday of what we would call the Summer months. And I want to speak on “How to Have a Super Summer.” I was thinking this afternoon ab...

The Best Is Yet To Come

Below is an excerpt from the sermon... If you have your Bibles, would you open them, please, to the book of John? John chapter number 1, and we’ll start there in just a moment. Let me also read one verse toward the end of John, and then we’ll jump right into the message. John is a wonderful book. I’ll give you some of the background in just a second. But in John 20:31, this is the theme verse of this entire book, and it says, “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Chr...

David’s House Rules

They’re Waiting

Below is an excerpt from the sermon... We’re in Acts Chapter 8. Acts Chapter number 8, and I want you to see this. And I know Summer is starting this coming week, and I do hope everyone, I hope everyone, somehow gets a nice trip this Summer. I hope you get some kind of a break. Make some memories. Travel a little bit. Get a suntan if you need it. Do something special. Take some pictures. I’m just hoping you get to do that. And that’s not a sin. God wants His people to enjoy. He says, “I’ve ...

The Angry People

Below is an excerpt from the sermon... Matthew chapter 5, if you will. When we were in the tent, I spoke on something similar to this. We will go a little bit further and in a different direction. We’re in Matthew 5. This is what we call the Sermon on the Mount. This is the Starting Point class that Jesus had basically. And He is telling the disciples what to expect, what they need to know. And it is the greatest message that’s ever been preached. You can read it in probably about 10 or 12 m...

Give God Your Keys

Below is an excerpt from the sermon... If you have a Bible with you, we’re going to be reading one verse in Revelation chapter number 3. Revelation chapter three. A very famous verse. Many of you could quote it. If you don’t have a Bible with you, that’s fine. All of these chapters in Revelation one, two, and three are written to local churches. And so, this is the last church, the church at Laodicea. And all the print is in red, so we realize this is Jesus speaking. Notice this very famous v...

I Am a Stranger

Below is an excerpt from the sermon... Alright, take your Bibles, if you will, tonight. Turn the book of Psalm 119. I mentioned this morning how special Psalm 119 has become to me in recent weeks and months. And it truly is. I was telling Brother Berto this morning after the morning service that I’ve been preaching so much in Cambodia, and a couple of times now that I’ve been back in the US, from Psalm 119. It’s just so on my heart lately, and it’s just become so special and precious to me—s...

A Stranger

Keeping Your Head Above Water

All right, we’re in Psalms chapter 119. And I want to just read one verse, and then we’ll pray and begin the sermon this morning. Just by a quick word of introduction, I love Psalm 119. I strongly encourage all Christians to spend a lot of time in Psalm 119. 176 verses, the longest chapter in the Bible. Now when I was a kid at the Christian school we were in, we memorized Psalm 119. We literally had to learn eight verses a week, and at the end of the year, we had to stand and quote the entire...

Affliction

Psalm 51 – Confessing Sin

Below is an excerpt from the sermon... Open your Bibles, if you would please, for a moment to Psalm 51. Psalm 51. It is said of one of my heroes, Charles Spurgeon, the great pastor in London. They said one day, he was walking with a group of people that were crossing a street in London, carriages coming, horses coming, people walking. And he stopped and knelt in the middle of the street, took his hat off, and just prayed silently for a few moments. Then he put his hat back on and crossed the ...

Confessing Sin

Nuggets of Knowledge From Romans 8

If you have your Bibles, let’s open them please to the Book of Romans. Romans chapter number 8 tonight, the famous chapter 8 of Romans. We’ll start by looking at the first verse. I hope you’ll keep your Bible (or whatever you have) open. Maybe you have a phone. You know, it’s all different. You’ve got a phone, you got a laptop, you got an iPad. Maybe you’ve got a memory stick in your head, you just kind of push on your temples, and it kind of comes out in your contact lens or something. But h...

Making Wise Decisions

If you have your Bibles, let’s open them, please, to the book of Genesis for a moment. The book of Genesis. Genesis 13. And here’s a little bit of the story. This is Lot. He is the one where in the New Testament it says, “Remember Lot’s wife. He’s the one who was raised by his uncle Abraham because his father had died. Lot’s father had died. And so, they were in business. They had herdsmen, and somehow Lot’s herdsmen, his workers, were not getting along with Abraham’s workers. Well, all of a...

When He Speaks To Me

We’re going to do two Bible studies in one tonight. It is always interesting because when you’re speaking to children all the way up to retired people it is next to impossible to have one subject that always covers everything. So tonight, I had the rest of last week’s lesson to cover and then we have a Psalm, so we are kind of going to do both tonight. We’ll be out on time, but it’ll be a Psalm and then we’ve got some tips on childrearing. For those of you that have grandchildren, children, ...

Socially Distanced From Sin

Below is an excerpt from the sermon... If you have your Bibles, let’s open them for a moment to the Book of Romans tonight. The Book of Romans. And let’s confess for a moment: how many of you have—maybe you’ve been saved for years—but you have a book of the Bible that when you start reading it, you kind of start getting bogged down? You know, you can’t zip through the stories like you can in the Gospels. Some books, maybe like Romans and maybe like some of the other ones, kind of slow you do...

Sin

Mother’s Day: What I Like About Bathsheba

Below is an excerpt of the sermon… If you have your Bibles, would you open them, please, to the book of 2 Samuel this morning? 2 Samuel. All of us have a different relationship with our mom. Every one of us. Some have had a very godly mother, one who knew how to raise you, and you’ve grown up to call her blessed. Others, perhaps, had a mom who was just never taught. I think of one of our men who told me—he said, “Pastor, I don’t like Mother’s Day.” I said, “How come?” He said, “My mother ta...

Rearing Children

How Not To Change