New Hope Lutheran Church - Hampton, VA 
We are a small independent Lutheran Church established in 1996. The name New Hope is representative of the new hope of the charter members for the future of all Lutherans in preserving the focus of the Church on the Word of God. If you are in the Hampton / Newport News, Virginia area, please come to worship with us.
Sermon 13 June 2010: The Great Supper
Our Lord’s choice of the invitation to the supper is not by chance. Supper is the evening meal--the last nourishment before going to sleep—-the meal before the coming of darkness. In this case of the parable, the supper is the feeding of the Holy Gospel—-the last doctrine God gave us and the doctrine that will usher in the end of the world. The supper is free to those who are invited, but the man giving the supper paid a great price for it--the life of His Son. More...
Sermon 6 June 2010: The Rich Man And Lazarus
The story of Lazarus and the rich man gives us a view of heaven that we receive nowhere else in Scripture. The rich man is in hell and Lazarus is in heaven. Some teach that the lesson here is that if you are rich in this world you cannot go to heaven. It doesn’t say that at all. Abraham was rich. Job was rich. Solomon was rich. And I believe that we will see each of these men in heaven. More...
Sermon 30 May 2010: The Lesson of Nicodemus
The traditional text for Trinity week is Jesus’ conversation with the learned Pharisee Nicodemus. At first we might not recognize how appropriate this text is. There are many who deny the Holy Trinity because they don’t understand it. For some, if they cannot reason through a concept, it cannot exist. But for us Christians, we see the things of God with our hearts. The Holy Spirit reveals them to us and that is going to be the lesson for Nicodemus. More...
Sermon 23 May 2010: The Lesson of Pentecost, Law and Gospel
On Pentecost Day, 50 days after the resurrection of our Lord Jesus, the promise of the sending of the Holy Spirit was fulfilled. That is what our text is about today, the coming of the Holy Spirit. More...
Sermon 16 May 2010: Jesus' Ascension into Heaven
Mark’s account of the events of Jesus’ ascension include a concise summary of the events from Easter Eve to Jesus’ ascension 40 days later—Jesus is instructing the disciples—they must carry the Gospel message to the world—He tells them they have what they need—the gifts of the Holy Spirit will come to provide the tools to do the job—after the Lord spoke—He ascended into heaven to be at the right hand of the Father—until He returns again to take us home More...
Sermon 9 May 2010: Jesus Teaches About Prayer
Jesus just explained that He would be going away and sending the Holy Spirit to the disciples to comfort them and teach them. In our text Jesus tells His disciples that they have not asked Him for anything while He walked with them. When He goes away to return to heaven they do not need Him to go to the Father on their behalf. The Father loves them because they believed the Son and they loved the Son as the Son of God. They should pray to the Father and ask that He keep His promises.More...
Sermon 2 May 2010: Sin, Righteousness, and the Cross
Jesus’ disciples were thinking that Jesus would establish an earthly kingdom and they would be part of that kingdom. However, they misunderstood these things from the beginning. Now Jesus is telling them that He will leave and He will send them the Holy Spirit and that it will be a good thing that He leaves. More...
Sermon 25 April 2010: Jesus, The Good Shepherd
In the past, we spoke of the institution of the office of the Apostles and the successors of the apostles. These would also be called shepherds and they would speak the message of Christ, just as He taught us. Today there are many pastors, or shepherds leading parts of the flock but there is only One Good Shepherd and there is only one flock.More...
Sermon 18 April 2010: A Message for My Granddaughter
There is a tradition in the Lutheran church. When a child enters the teenage years they study Luther’s Catechism in classes with their pastor. My granddaughter just completed those studies with me. It is a great privilege to study with her and I learned much from her. I hope I also taught her many things about God’s Word and how to apply what she learned to her daily life.More...
Sermon 11 April 2010: Jesus Brings Peace to His Disciples
This lesson comes on the first Easter evening when the disciples were gathered together trying to make sense of the recent events they had witnessed. Jesus was arrested. He was judged by liars and thieves representing themselves as God’s servants. He was nailed to the cross. He died. He was buried. And now, on this 3rd day, they have seen the empty tomb and some have seen Jesus walking and talking.More...
Featured Sermon: What is a Lutheran?
Today we celebrate the anniversary of the Reformation of the Christian Church. We studied the early Church a few years ago and learned how the Gospel was spread by the persecution of the early Christians. The Reformation caused a similar occurrence when religious persecution in Europe forced Christians to flee to America. Again God used circumstances of persecution to spread His Word. More...