Blog Posts by Pastor Tom Leake

Family Discipleship  Another distinctive of HBC and the movement of churches of which we belong, is our firm commitment to family discipleship. W...

Elder Rule Another distinctive of Hope Bible Church is Elder Rule. This pertains to how the local church is structured, led, and ruled with Christ’...

Inter-Church Cooperation and Ministry Inter-church work is not something new nor did our church invent it. We are, however, committed to it and cou...

Commitment to the Local Church Another distinctive of Hope Bible Church is our commitment to the local church. I imagine that just about every den...

Missions-Mindedness Another distinctive of Hope Bible Church is missions-mindedness. From the moment Jesus announced the Great Commission to His f...

In our last edition we underscored the importance of holding fast to the historic and biblical gospel that saves by faith alone, through grace alon...

The seventh distinctive of Hope Bible Church is an emphasis on our teaching of The Solas of the Reformation. Not only do we preach expositional ser...

The first distinctive of Hope Bible Church is Expository Preaching. The second distinctive of Hope Bible Church is Biblical Counseling and the doct...

In this week’s edition, we pick up with additional benefits of expository preaching. (to follow along with this series and read the previous articl...

As we continue in our series of some of the distinctive elements of Hope Bible Church (HBC) that accentuate this word-driven dynamic body model, we...

Last post I wrote that we would call our overall distinctive model "The Word Driven Dynamic Body Model." Today we will consider four processes from...

Today’s modern American church is saturated with a variety of paradigms about how to do church. Many church leaders are assured these models are th...