What is the next step God is calling you to take?

A number of years ago, I flew on several occasions with a co-worker in his private plane. He had a beautiful twin engine Cessna with a pressurized cabin. It was fun because I got to sit in the seat right next to him as he piloted the plane. There was one flight in particular that stands out in my memory. We were headed for Detroit and he filed a flight plan with the FAA since we were going to be flying instrument Flight Rules (IFR for you aviation buffs). Despite the fact that it was clear where we were flying out of, our destination was ‘socked in’ with a very low

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Youth Group Event To Shrine Christ Passion

Youth Event, Hope Community Church of Lowell on Aug. 18, 2018.
Middle School and High School Youth visited the Shrine of Christ Passion in St. John Indiana. Then Pizza to follow at Gelsosomos Pizzeria in Cedar Lake Indiana.  Exploring and to visually be able to

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The Other Job In Every Job We Do

~ We welcome Fred De Jong to bring us our Sunday service message.
 
In everything we do, God has purposed something else for us to do. Whether in career, studies, homemaking, retirement activities or any other enterprise, we are called to also be “reconcilers”. This critical role is easy to miss or skimp on given the many hats we wear. Still, God

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Beautification Day At Hope Church Lowell

August 11th was a great day of fellowship and working together getting some much needed projects done around our church. Thank you to all our

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Holding Onto Hope Only To Be Let Down

December 14, 2017 is the day that I said goodbye to the corporate rat race. I had been a sales rep with a medical device company for almost 15 years. When I started, things were good. We were a solid #2 player in our market. We had a good product line and some well received and innovative new products. But then, the company became stagnant. There was no research and development and no new products. No acquisition of new technologies. Meanwhile, all of our competitors were innovating like crazy and they passed us by like we were standing still.
 
During this time, there were several changes in upper management and no matter who was running the company at any given time, they all said the same thing, “We want to

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