Sometimes I get so sick and tired of the way things are going I just want to take my ball and go home. Sometimes I don’t even care if I get my ball back, I just want to go! Do you ever feel like that; Like the sacrifice the Christian life requires is more than [...]

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Hope Springs is a mission church planted in the heart of Athens, Georgia. We have established a missionary base at the intersection of four worlds. We are across the street from a huge government housing project. We are less than half a mile from a gigantic population of University students. We are right beside [...]

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Perpetuity or Resurrection

On April 25, 2011 By

Take a moment. Try to picture yourself after life on earth. You know what I mean, life after death…. Having trouble? It’s only natural that you should. You and I have no context in which to consider it. Most likely, however, when you try to picture life after death it looks very unlike the resurrection [...]

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Good news! The Hope Springs Worship team is now on Twitter.. so get on over there and check them out! You can find them by clinking on the link here

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Swapping Six for Seven

On April 17, 2011 By

This week we do a whirlwind tour of what it means to, “take up your cross daily and follow (Jesus)”. Key to understanding this is taking a look at what it meant for Jesus to go to the cross. It meant much more than giving up sin. It meant more than giving up existence on [...]

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Jesus Under Pressure

On April 10, 2011 By

Did you know that the word Gethsemanee means oil press? It was the place on the Mount of Olives where the olives were put under the press in order to extract the oil which was so precious to the people of that region. That oil was used for everything from cooking to healing, from moisturizing [...]

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