Pastor Paul Bourman
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Local sermons with patient gospel clarity.
Hope In Tigard Sermons is a steady stream of Lutheran sermons from Hope Lutheran Church in Tigard, Oregon. Pastor Paul Borman moves from biblical texts into ordinary scenes like classrooms, family exhaustion, church fellowship, and broken windows, always returning to Jesus as the answer beneath the trouble.
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Hope In Tigard Sermons presents Christian preaching with the directness of a local church pulpit and the patience of a pastor working through Scripture in front of familiar people. The sermons heard here come from Pastor Paul Borman at Hope Lutheran Church in Tigard, Oregon. They are not flashy or heavily packaged. They are slow, conversational, and built to let one central question stay in the room long enough to matter. One sermon turns temptation into the repeated choice between a person’s own will and God’s will. Another treats complaining not as harmless background noise, but as a spiritual posture worth examining. A sermon on identity asks who gets to define a person, then answers through Romans 8 and the language of being a child of God. The show often starts from the Bible, then moves into scenes that feel recognizably ordinary. A student considers cheating on a test. A tired parent mishandles a coffee grinder after a newborn week. A congregation processes fear and frustration after rocks are thrown through church windows. Those details keep the sermons grounded. The theology remains explicit, but the teaching rarely feels abstract. Sin is described as uncomfortable and deep. Grace is described as deeper still. The show’s recurring movement is from tension to Christ: from brokenness to true love, from exhaustion to rest, from self-definition to God-given identity, from moral failure to the claim that Jesus has paid it all. There is humor at the edges, especially in personal asides and literary or sports illustrations, but the center stays pastoral. The result suits listeners who want sermon audio that sounds lived-in, local, and doctrinally serious without becoming academic.
Made for: For listeners seeking accessible Lutheran preaching that connects Scripture to temptation, family life, church community, suffering, and identity. It especially suits people who prefer a warm sermon monologue over interviews or debate.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its grounded pastoral texture: bulletin-note structure, repeated guiding questions, and everyday illustrations that keep doctrine close to lived experience. It feels less like a studio product and more like a congregation being carefully shepherded through Scripture.
Hope Lutheran Church is a church located in Tigard, Oregon in Southwest Portland. The goal of these sermons is to bring you the hope that comes through Jesus alone. He is the source of real and true hope.
Anger gets put on trial, then grace meets you outside the courtroom.
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A plainspoken sermon that keeps returning to the choice between personal will and God's will.
Pastor Paul Borman's sermon at Hope Lutheran Church in Tigard, Oregon treats sin as something heavier than a mistake or a poor decision. It keeps pressing the question of whether a person will follow personal will or God's will, and it brings that question into school, work,…
A calm sermon that turns identity from self-definition into divine declaration.
This sermon keeps circling one question: "Who are you?" Paul Borman at Hope Lutheran Church in Tigard, Oregon uses Romans 8:14-17 to set a fearful, contract-style view of God against the freedom of being a child of God.
A sermon on fellowship as the patient, corrective work of growing together in God's word.
Acts 2:42 is treated as a practical test of church life as Pastor Paul Borman frames fellowship as devotion to studying God's word together and as a lived form of belonging.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Catholic arguments with pint-table warmth.
Daily headlines under Christian judgment.
Serious Bible questions, patiently reasoned.
Catholic homilies for the next faithful step.
Catholic teaching for ordinary discipleship.
Pastor Paul Borman's “Money Matters - God’s Grace for Our Giving” explains why Christian giving is not a fixed 10% requirement.
Pastor Paul Borman of Hope Lutheran Church in Tigard, Oregon, examines Jesus’ teaching on oaths as a question of integrity rather than merely behavior.
Pastor Paul Borman of Hope Lutheran Church in Tigard, Oregon, applies Matthew 5 to anger and reconciled relationships.
Pastor Paul Borman of Hope Lutheran Church opens “Jesus’ Teaching on Your Blessing” with nine social-media “hashtag blessed” examples, including a finished burrito.
Pastor Paul Borman shares a personal childhood story about witnessing something unpleasant at a water fountain that changed his perspective, illustrating how certain experiences can't be unseen.
This sermon concludes a series on sin by focusing on the sin of complaining, explaining its significance and categorizing it as horizontal preferential complaining.
Pastor Paul Borman pauses his sin series to say why the topic feels uncomfortable.
Pastor Paul Borman centers the sermon on Romans 8:14-17.
Pastor Paul Borman shares a personal story of exhaustion after the birth of his fourth child and a church break-in, leading into a sermon on finding hope in Jesus.
Pastor Paul Borman addresses recent vandalism at the church and calls the congregation to respond with true love as defined by Jesus.
Pastor Paul Borman uses Tom Brady's retirement to discuss finding hope and meaning in life through Jesus.
Pastor Paul Borman of Hope Lutheran Church in Tigard, Oregon, teaches from Acts 2:42 about the early church’s devotion to the apostles’ teaching, fellowship, shared meals, and prayer.
Pastor Paul Borman encourages listeners to develop an unreasonable faith that others might see as extreme but is rooted in devotion to Jesus.
Pastor Paul Borman discusses why God calls Christians to be different regarding sexual ethics, using a fireplace analogy to summarize biblical teachings.
Pastor Paul Borman discusses the number one reason couples seek pastoral counseling: issues with sex and intimacy.
Pastor Paul Borman engages the congregation with questions about unwanted thoughts and feelings, setting up a sermon on faith and doubt.
A Lutheran pastor delivers a sermon exploring what happens when high achievers face disappointment, pointing to hope in Jesus.
A Lutheran pastor delivers a sermon on Psalm 91, emphasizing trust and deliverance during Lent.
Pastor Paul Borman preaches on Luke 7:36-50, emphasizing Jesus' love and forgiveness despite human sin.