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By God's grace we pray that HopeUC will always be a body, a church, a family and a home that is defined by God's presence. Worshipful, missional, prayerful, generational, creative, generous, thankful, authentic and completely passionate about people responding to the message of salvation. And with a shout that resounds through every part of our lives that HOPE is a person, and His name is Jesus.The songs and teachings range from adoration to warfare, but the message is the same, the Lord alone is worthy of praise. We believe that when people see God for who He really is, they can't help but worship loudly and extravagantly.Join us from the HopeUC Nashville barn every week as our team delivers a word that builds on our four core values. The Word is our foundation, Worship is our Honor, Community is our Heartbeat and His Presence is our Passion.
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- Today1h 11m
July 12th - Generations | Marked by the Kingdom by Rick White
Join us in this episode as Rick shares a powerful and practical message on kingdom culture, discipleship, and what it means to be formed as a follower of Jesus. Through the book of Revelation, Rick unpacks the clash between the kingdom of God and the kingdoms of this world. From John's declaration of the One "who is, who was, and who is to come," to the contrast between the mark of the beast and the people marked by the Lamb, this message reminds us that Christianity is not just private belief—it is allegiance to a different kingdom and a different way of life. You'll hear why kingdoms always carry culture, why salvation is more than a moment, and why following Jesus requires both faith and obedience. Rick also shares personal stories of spiritual mentors who helped shape his life, showing how discipleship often happens through intentional relationships, honest questions, correction, accountability, and shared life. This message will encourage you to: - Recognize what kingdom and culture are forming your life. - Understand that following Jesus means both faith in Him and obedience to His commands. - Receive spiritual legacy through the family of God, even if you did not grow up with it. - Invite mentors, spiritual mothers and fathers, and trusted voices into your life. - Look around and intentionally invest in the people God has already placed in front of you. - Live as someone marked by the Lamb and formed by the culture of heaven. For more messages and resources, visit www.hopeucnashville.com or download the HopeUC Nashville app.
- 3 days ago52 min
July 26th - Generations | Legacy Builders by Stevie Mitchell, Ryan Mitchell, and Meaghan Mitchell
Join us in this episode as the Mitchell family shares a heartfelt, practical conversation on Generational Legacy and what it means to pass faith, wisdom, healing, and testimony to those coming after us. Around the table, they unpack Psalm 102:18 and the call to live in such a way that "a people not yet born will praise the Lord." Through personal stories and biblical examples like Moses and Joshua, and Mordecai and Esther, they explore how legacy is formed through proximity, spiritual mothers and fathers, intentional relationships, correction, blessing, and shared life. You'll hear why legacy is not a program but a mindset, why there is no retirement in the kingdom, and how your ceiling can become someone else's floor. This message also challenges us to pass down healed scars instead of open wounds, to live fully surrendered rather than compromised, and to tell the stories of God's faithfulness so they don't skip a generation. This conversation will encourage you to: - Recognize that your life is already passing something on. - Identify what God has called you to build and leave behind. - Become intentional about spiritual parenting, mentorship, and legacy. - Let your scars become testimonies of healing for the next generation. - Live in such a way that others can go farther because of your obedience. For more messages and resources, visit www.hopeucnashville.com or download the HopeUC Nashville app.
- 1 weeks ago50 min
July 19th - Generations | Generations On Fire by Elliot Rudell
Join us in this episode as Elliot Rudell shares a fiery, vulnerable message on "Generations" and what it means to follow Jesus in a world God Himself is shaking. Drawing from 1 Corinthians 10, Psalm 78, Hebrews 12, Luke 17, and especially Joel 2, Elliot walks through Israel's story as a roadmap for ours—how God's people can see real miracles and still crash in scandal when they ignore holiness and generational covering. He tells raw stories from the Jesus Movement—radical salvations, wild outpouring, and painful collapse when older saints walked away and young believers tried to build revival without fathers and mothers. You'll hear how God uses both kindness and shaking—locusts, loss, and even global turmoil—to call His people back to Himself, and why the coming outpouring of the Holy Spirit will require a clean, holy, and unified church. Elliot unpacks the biblical command to "tell your children… and their children… and another generation," challenging older believers not to retire spiritually, and younger believers not to wait to get serious about holiness. This conversation will provoke you to: - See your life inside God's end‑time storyline, not just your own timeline. - Embrace both the Comforter and the cross, not just spiritual "experiences." - Stay continually filled with the Holy Spirit—"fingers in the outlet"—in days of shaking. - Take your place, young or old, in passing on stories, warnings, and fire to the next generation. For more messages and resources, visit www.hopeucnashville.com or download the HopeUC Nashville app.
- 3 weeks ago1h 7m
July 5th - Generations | Passing The Torch by Pastors Tom Trout, Dustin Smith, and Jordan Smith
Join us in this episode as Pastor Dustin Smith, Pastor Tom Trout, and Jordan Smith sit down together to talk about "Generations" and how God weaves old men's dreams and young people's visions into one burning flame. Walking through Joel 2 / Acts 2 and the story of Elijah and Elisha, they explore how God is not just the God of your lifetime but the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—a 500‑year God you're part of right now. You'll hear stories of revival, miracles, and God's faithfulness across decades, and how those memories aren't meant to stay as nostalgia but to fuel faith for what He wants to do next. Together they unpack three generational roles—those who remember and tell the stories, those who steward and build the "canvas," and those who run with fresh vision—and how honor, humility, and blessing keep all three moving in step instead of in competition. You'll be challenged to break agreement with family curses, receive generational blessing, and see yourself not as starting from scratch with God, but as carrying a torch that's meant to light many others before you take your last breath. For more stories and resources, visit www.hopeucnashville.com or download the HopeUC Nashville app.
- Jun 29, 202631 min
June 28th - Keys to the Kingdom | Walking in Kingdom Authority by Pastor Dustin Smith
Join us in this episode as Pastor Dustin Smith unpacks "keys of the kingdom" and how they unlock God's rule and reign in our everyday lives. Walking through Peter's revelation of Jesus in Matthew 16, Pastor Dustin shows how seeing Jesus clearly always comes before carrying real authority—and how God entrusts keys to those who truly know the King. You'll explore ten practical keys—revelation, faith, prayer, obedience, humility, honor, generosity, forgiveness, unity, and love—and how each one opens specific "rooms" of God's kingdom. Learn why faith is the currency of the kingdom, why most miracles sit on the other side of simple obedience, how unforgiveness is a prison we lock ourselves in, and why love is the "master key" that makes every other key work. For more stories and resources, visit www.hopeucnashville.com or download the HopeUC Nashville app.
- Jun 23, 202646 min
June 21st - Keys to the Kingdom | Jesus' Call to the Disqualified by Shane Willard
In this episode, Shane Willard takes us into the Jewish world of Jesus to show Him as a real first‑century rabbi—and what it means to actually live under His yoke today. Shane explains how rare the title "rabbi" was, what a "yoke" is (a way of interpreting and living Scripture), and why Jesus was recognized as a rabbi "with authority" (s'mikah). With that authority, Jesus could offer His own yoke—easy and light—and overturn heavy, harmful interpretations that crushed people. Instead of choosing the best students from rabbinic schools, Jesus goes to the lake, calling fishermen and a tax collector who had already been told they weren't good enough. His simple words "follow me" re‑qualify the disqualified and invite ordinary people to carry His way into the world. Shane then shows Jesus' yoke in action: with the woman caught in adultery, Malchus in the garden, and Jesus on the cross. Rather than using Scripture to stone or disqualify, Jesus fulfills it through mercy, restoration, and radical love—even for His enemies. This message calls us back to the real Rabbi Jesus: to be covered in His dust, to be known for love more than opinions, and to treat people the way He treated people—healing instead of harming, qualifying instead of canceling, and letting His cross‑shaped love shape how we read the Bible and live every day. For more messages and resources, visit www.hopeucnashville.com or download the HopeUC Nashville app.
- Jun 15, 20261h 7m
June 14th - Keys to the Kingdom | Faith Over Comfort by Pastor Dustin Smith
In this episode, Pastor Dustin shares a passionate, practical message on faith as a "key to the kingdom" in a culture of comfort, convenience, and quitting when it gets hard. Preaching from Hebrews 11–12, he reminds us that faith isn't just what we believe but what we *do*—a real, costly substance. It's impossible to please God without faith, yet many of us try to follow Jesus at "safe speed," clinging to comfort and control instead of obeying when He says "go." Dustin uses the picture of the "bride of Christ"—the church—as something costly but worth it, like a groom who sacrifices time, money, and comfort to pursue the one he loves. Jesus gave everything for His bride, and we honor Him by investing our lives into His church, where so many of our stories began. From Hebrews 12:1–2, he calls us to "strip off every weight" and "the sin that so easily entangles" so we can "run with endurance" by keeping our eyes on Jesus. Dustin names five common "weights" that quietly choke faith: - **Apathy** – delaying obedience, living in neutral instead of acting like Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, or Peter. - **Comfort & success** – not sinful in themselves, but deadly when safety becomes more important than obedience. - **Complaining** – agreement with the wrong kingdom, spreading unbelief and offense. - **Disappointment** – especially around unanswered prayers and loss; it can harden into unbelief when God doesn't move our way. - **Weariness & isolation** – long battles that make us tired and pull us away from the very community meant to strengthen our faith. In this context, Dustin identifies the "sin that so easily entangles" as **unbelief**—staying put when God says "go," calling fear and self‑protection "wisdom." The way forward is not obsessing over our weakness but fixing our eyes on Jesus, "the author and perfecter of our faith." Like Peter on the water, we don't sink because of the storm but because we shift our focus off Jesus. This message is a call to lay down apathy, comfort, complaint, disappointment, weariness, and unbelief, and to become a people who keep saying "yes" to God—even when it's costly and we may never see all the fruit in our lifetime. In a hyper‑individual age, Dustin also calls us back to *community faith*: there are no isolated disciples in the New Testament. Faith is born, strengthened, and sustained in the family of God, the bride of Christ. For more messages and resources, visit www.hopeucnashville.com or download the HopeUC Nashville app.
- Jun 7, 202653 min
June 7th - Keys to the Kingdom | Endurance As Worship by Rick White
In this episode, Pastor Rick shares a honest, practical message on endurance as a "key to the kingdom" in a world obsessed with ease, speed, and instant results. Preaching from Hebrews 12, James 1, and Galatians 6, he unpacks the Greek word *hypomone*—to "stay under pressure without collapsing"—the same word used for Jesus enduring the cross. Life, Rick reminds us, is more like a marathon than a sprint, yet many of us try to live the Christian life at sprint-pace, running on highlight moments instead of stable, daily obedience and biblical depth. Through his own story of being overwhelmed by responsibility, learning to care for his body, and watching God provide in tight seasons, Rick shows how trials can either crush us or grow us. We contrast a victim mindset ("life is happening to me; I can't help it") with a kingdom mindset ("Jesus, how do I partner with You and grow in this?"), and see how small daily decisions quietly shape who we become over years. Rick also addresses shame honestly. Shame is a terrible fuel for life, but a powerful signal that something inside needs healing. From Romans 5, we're reminded that while we were still weak and ungodly, Christ died for us. You may feel like you're failing, but you don't have to stay there. In Jesus' hands, conviction and even shame become doorways into transformation, not a life sentence. This message invites us to become people of *hypomone*—men and women who can carry the weight of life and calling without collapsing, because our eyes are fixed on the One who endured first. For more messages and resources, visit www.hopeucnashville.com or download the HopeUC Nashville app.
About HopeUC Nashville Word of the Week
By God's grace we pray that HopeUC will always be a body, a church, a family and a home that is defined by God's presence. Worshipful, missional, prayerful, generational, creative, generous, thankful, authentic and completely passionate about people responding to the message of salvation. And with a shout that resounds through every part of our lives that HOPE is a person, and His name is Jesus.The songs and teachings range from adoration to warfare, but the message is the same, the Lord alone is worthy of praise. We believe that when people see God for who He really is, they can't help but worship loudly and extravagantly.Join us from the HopeUC Nashville barn every week as our team delivers a word that builds on our four core values. The Word is our foundation, Worship is our Honor, Community is our Heartbeat and His Presence is our Passion.
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