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Baptism Story – Justin Blatchley
Justin was baptized in August 2023. If you have interest in getting baptized at Hope Community Church, you can learn more by visiting hopecc.com/baptism. Before knowing Christ, I was dead in my sin. There's nothing else to it. I knew I was guilty despite my attempts...
One Man’s Minority Perspective on Being a Racial Minority
I was born in Seoul, South Korea, adopted at the age of 4 months old by a white family, and grew up in China. My mother is of Scottish descent, and my father has Italian ancestry. To put it another way, I look nothing like my family. Now it can be the case that...
Seeing God in Chinese School
The Chinese language primarily relies on pictographs to communicate. Supposedly, there are over 100,000 Chinese characters, although most experts agree that you need to know about 3,000 to 4,000 to be considered “literate”. The cool thing about pictographs is they...
God Through an Asian American Lens
We Should be Unified, Right? “So you’ll be working with Epic this school year!” My heart sank when I heard that - I was a first-year intern with Cru at the University of Minnesota and we were discussing assignments for which ministries we would be involved in besides...
Omnipotence of God
In our culture we have a high interest in power. This is illustrated in our movie story lines through Marvel characters of Captain America, Iron man, Captain Marvel and the Eternals. We also see this in how we herald those who have demonstrated dominance in sports,...