“For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.”
1 Corinthians 2:2
Hope for the Balkans is a mission network equipping, empowering and training God’s people across the Balkans to win their generation for Jesus Christ – building local, self-sustaining and multiplying networks of leaders who pass the faith on to the next generation.
What We Do
- The Kairos Course – mobilizing the Church for God’s global mission. 41 courses across Bulgaria since 2013.
- TFT – Training For Trainers – equipping pastors to preach the Word, book by book, over years of relationship.
- ProPoVedi.Org – free Bulgarian preaching and Bible-teaching resources since 2002.
Messages
Sermons, devotions and Bible teaching from Hope for the Balkans – on Scripture, mission and the Christian life. A few recent messages:
- Freedom from Sin – (Romans 6:1-23)Romans 6:1-23: united with Christ in His death and resurrection, we are dead to sin and alive to God, called to live free from sin in holiness.
- The Gospel According to Matthew (Matthew 1:1-28:20)A survey of the Gospel of Matthew: its authorship, date, structure, and its portrait of Jesus as the promised Messiah and King.
- Herod or Wise Man? – (Matthew 2:1-12)A study of Matthew 2:1-12: everyone who meets the newborn King must choose — reject Him like Herod, or worship Him like the wise men.
- Do Not Worry About Anything! – (Matthew 6:25-34)From Matthew 6:25-34, why God’s children need not worry: seek his kingdom first and cast every care on the Father who provides.
- The Death of John the Baptist – (Matthew 14:1-12)Matthew 14:1-12 — how the shamelessness, spite, and weakness around Herod killed John, and why faithfulness to God’s truth is worth any cost.
- A Double Test – (Matthew 15:21-28)In Matthew 15:21-28 Jesus tests a Canaanite mother’s faith, teaching us to keep praying, keep trusting, and never take “no” for an answer.
All of our messages are gathered in the Sermon Library — organized by Bible book, series, topic and season. There you can read straight through a book of the Bible, follow a teaching series from beginning to end, or find a message on a particular theme. The library grows as new messages are added.
How the Messages Are Organized
The messages in the Sermon Library are arranged by theme and grouped into four stages of spiritual growth — following our mission, which is founded on the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20) and the Great Commandment (Matthew 22:36-40). Each stage answers to a group of people and a step along the road to maturity and spiritual reproduction:
- Seekers → New Believers — to lead people to God: the gospel, presenting the crucified and risen Christ to those who are seeking Him.
- New Believers → Affirmed — to affirm them in the faith: the spiritual disciplines, the foundations of the faith, and the Christian life.
- Affirmed → Servants — to equip them for ministry: every believer finding their place and gift to serve in the house of God.
- Servants → Leaders — to reproduce ourselves: raising up leaders who guide and train others, for many generations of followers of Christ.
Browse the Sermon Library → · See the latest messages →
Learn More
Get to know us on our About page – our mission and vision, core values, statement of faith, and the story of how it all began.
Partner With Us
Every mission needs both a going team and a sending team. We are ready to go – will you help send us? Join our sending team.