Today is the first day of 2017/18 school year at Hollywood Christian School. It is always exciting to see the students return.   Moms and dads are in the hallways taking their children’s pictures with teachers. The students are neatly dressed in their new school uniforms. Friends are reuniting after their summer vacations. And the school staff is urgently running from place to place making sure th...  Read More

Several years ago the leaders of our church decided to change its name to Hollywood Community Church. Although that name isn’t necessarily compelling or eye popping, it does perfectly demonstrate who we are and what God has called us to do. At HCC we have a tremendous passion for the Gospel to make a difference in our city. That passion drives us to look for ways to serve those who live in our sur...  Read More

It was a blessing to have Edwin Copeland, the Executive Director of Church United, at Hollywood Community Church yesterday. His message about transformative unity was right on point.  If you didn’t hear it, you can find it here http://site.ourhcc.org/sermons/The simple truth is that churches have ministered independent of each other far too long.   Sadly, our distinctions, our divisions and our di...  Read More

This past Sunday, the message was “The Prayer for Boldness” found in Acts 4:23-31.  From the passage, we saw that God gives us boldness as..We understand and embrace His sovereignty.We are filled with the Holy Spirit.And as we truly believe in the power of prayer.I wanted get a little deeper into the idea of being filled with the Spirit.  The principal command to be filled by the Holy Spirit is fo...  Read More

Have you found yourself staring at something or someone?  You are so mesmerized by what you see, that you cannot take your eyes off of it. Such a trance-like state happens to us more often than we think.  We are hypnotized by television, enthralled by a beautiful flower, spellbound to our favorite sport’s team and enraptured by the beauty or rugged good looks of our spouse.  What if you viewed Jes...  Read More

Although medical experts supposedly had warned of a worldwide pandemic for many years, the COVID crisis caught the Church off-guard.  Quite honestly, as church leaders we were totally unprepared. Just last year our Church elders began discussing doomsday scenarios and whether our HCC family was ready for such a moment, but sadly, we never got beyond the discussion phase.With six months of COVID ex...  Read More