The Hope Library

Twenty years in the making, Community of Hope has been teaching people to walk with Jesus in plain language. No church-speak, no performance, no perfect life required. Now that teaching is a library: a series of books covering the whole journey, from saying yes to Christ to holding on when life falls apart. 

Start Here

You said yes to Jesus. Heaven threw a party. Now what?
You prayed the prayer. Heaven threw a party. Now what? This is the first book for your new life. What actually happened when you said yes to Jesus, how you can know it's real on the days you don't feel it, why the water of baptism is waiting for you, and a thirteen-week walk through your first ninety days. You didn't join a program. You got adopted. Start here.

Just Talk

A simple guide to prayer.
Prayer isn't a performance. It's a conversation. No robe, no stage, no fancy words. Just you, being honest, with a God who's been waiting on you. How to start, what to say when life is heavy, what to do when heaven seems quiet, plus prayers you can borrow and a 7-day starter.



Read the Text, Read Your Life

A simple guide to Bible Study
Bring your Bible and your story. You'll leave knowing how to open the Book anywhere  and let it open you. This book teaches you both skills at once: five questions to draw out what God actually said, and five questions to read your own seasons, emotions, and patterns under the same light.


When Life Falls Apart

Suffering, Lament, and Holding On
Grief. Trauma. Depression. The prayers that seem to hit the ceiling. This book won't tell you to smile through it. It will hand you the prayers the Bible wrote for exactly this: lament, the prayer language nobody taught you. Walk through the heavy things by name and meet the God who is close to the brokenhearted. You don't have to be okay to open this book. That's rather the point of it.

"It's never too late to start over, begin, or keep going, and you just proved it."

- Start Here

"Justice is worship with its work boots on."

- Light in Dark Places

"Talk to God like you'd talk to someone who loves you and isn't going anywhere."

- Just Talk

Breath and Fire

A Spirit-Filled Life for Ordinary Disciples
There's a Person you may not know as well as you think, the One Jesus said it was better for you to have. Meet the Holy Spirit: who the Spirit is, what Pentecost started, what the gifts are for, and what a Spirit-filled life looks like for ordinary people with jobs, kids, and doubts. The Spirit isn't finished with you. Come hungry.

Light In Dark Places

The gospel has an address, it's your neighborhood..
Jesus opened His ministry announcing good news to the poor and freedom for the oppressed. And your own denomination was born the Sunday Richard Allen was pulled off his knees and walked out. Light in Dark Places makes the case that your neighborhood is not a detour from discipleship. It's the assignment.

Come and See

Sharing Your Faith
You don't need a script, a seminary degree, or somebody else's testimony.  Come and See teaches you to tell the story only you can tell, to see your block as your mission field, and to talk about Jesus like a person who has actually met Him: with listening, plain talk, gentleness, and respect. No corny scripts. No pressure to close the deal. The harvest was never yours to force. The invitation is yours to give.

Open Hands

Whole-Life Stewardship
Everything in your hands was handed to you. The hours in your day, the money in your account, the gifts you barely notice, even your rest: all of it entrusted by an Owner who trusts you with it.  Open Hands walks through whole-life stewardship as discipleship: why your calendar tells the truth about your worship, how first fruits train trust, why enough is a raise, what generosity looks like when it's bigger than a check, and why rest is what free people do.