Messages of hope from Pastor Chris Smart of Hope Church Presbyterian, Tampa, Florida.
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Galatians 3:26-4:7 : Defining Your Religion: Slavery or Sonship
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Galatians 3:26-4:7 : Defining Your Religion: Slavery or Sonship. In this amazing passage, we learn about the freedom, joy, and privileges of being sons and daughters of God through our faith in Christ. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kev…
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Galatians Chapter 3:15-25 : The Craftsman's Tools
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Galatians Chapter 3:15-25: The Craftsman's Tools. When God works upon your life, he is like an artist. Here we see two particular tools he uses to craft our character into the likeness of Christ, God's Law and God's promises. We also think about the timing in God using these tools: why Christ came when he did and not earlier. Contact Pastor Smart f…
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Galatians Chapter 3:1-14 : Lifting The Spell
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Galatians Chapter 3:1-14 : Lifting The Spell. The Bible is very clear about how easily anyone, including believers, can be fooled. Here are some ways to guard against it. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a …
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Galatians Chapter 2:11-21 : Convictions and Confrontations
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Galatians Chapter 2:11-21 : Convictions and Confrontations. Through the lens of a parable about otters and beavers, we learn how to handle convictions and deal with confrontations in life. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is…
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Galatians Chapter 2:1-10 : United We Stand!
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Galatians Chapter 2:1-10 : United We Stand! There are times when your reputation may be attacked. Do you defend yourself or let it go? Take a lesson from the Apostle Paul on making that call. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod…
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Galatians Chapter 1:10-24 : Communication With Conviction
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Galatians Chapter 1:10-24 : Communication With Conviction. Conviction in life has to be like a tree, with good roots, branches and fruit. Only such conviction over the Good News of Jesus can keep a believer healthy. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide -…
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Galatians Chapter 1:1-9 : A Spiritual Pandemic
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Galatians Chapter 1:1-9: A Spiritual Pandemic. How healthy is the church? Here is a spiritual health check where we deal with a virus of false teaching creating a medical emergency, called by a medical examination before being sent off for lab work. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope…
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Romans Chapter 11:17-36 : Uniting Humanity
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Romans Chapter 11:17-36 : Uniting Humanity. Here we see what keeps people apart in life, like arrogance, and the unique power of Christ to draw the most unlikely people together. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed …
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Romans Chapter 11:1-16 : The Journey to the New World
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Romans Chapter 11:1-16: The Journey to the New World. When God makes promises he keeps them. Maybe you doubt that at times. But in these verses, we see that one of his biggest promises was made to the Jewish people and that God is still keeping that promise. If God will reach his ancient people then we can be assurred of his power and willingness t…
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Romans Chapter 10:14-21 : Heaven's FedEx
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Romans Chapter 10:14-21 : Heaven's FedEx. Here we look at how God communicates with us today, by thinking of the package delivered, the delivery man, the address, and potential issues with the delivery and what is in the package. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Ac…
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Romans Chapter 10:1-13 : Driving on Route 666
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Romans Chapter 10:1-13 : Driving on Route 666. What direction is your life going? Where are you headed? We look at the fuel we put in our tank, the danger of pollutants, the destination we are heading towards, and what the ride will be like. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.c…
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Romans Chapter 9:14-33 : Questioning God
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Romans Chapter 9:14-33: Questioning God. Can God be trusted? Does he keep his word? Does God make the right choices every time? Here God speaks for himself. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commo…
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Romans Chapter 9:1-13 : Family Intervention
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Romans Chapter 9:1-13. Can God be trusted to do what he says? many may question if he can but in this section of the letter to the Romans the Apostle Paul gives a definitive yes to that question. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin Mac…
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Romans Chapter 8:35-39 : The Battlefield of Love
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Romans Chapter 8:35-39 : The Battlefield of Love. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/…
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Romans Chapter 8:31-34 : Who is Against You?
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Romans Chapter 8:31-34 : Who is Against You? When you follow Christ Victory and trial all wrapped up in the same moment. We see here who is committed to us, who could condemn us and who could charge us. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Ke…
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Romans Chapter 8:29-30 : Embraced by Love
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Romans Chapter 8:29-30 : Embraced by Love. We see the plan that God has to bless his children has been around for a very long time, from eternity! Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribu…
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Romans Chapter 8:28 : Opening The Doors of Hope
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Romans Chapter 8:28 : Opening The Doors of Hope. This is one of the most famous and well-loved verses in the Bible. It acts like a compass and map to direct the steps of the pilgrim through all of life's ups and downs. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheid…
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Romans Chapter 8:26-27 Part 2: The Cry of The Heart.
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Romans Chapter 8:26-27 Part 2: The Cry of The Heart. Praying is hard, but learn about the Holy Spirit and prayer. He is the greatest prayer partner you will ever find. We look at the spiritual vocabulary, resources, and power that God gives us in prayer. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk…
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Romans Chapter 8:26-27 Part 1 : You're Not in it Alone!
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Romans Chapter 8:26-27 : You're Not in it Alone! Prayer is not easy and here we learn how the Holy Spirit helps us to overcome our weaknesses. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution…
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Romans Chapter 8:18-25 : Tasting Hope
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Romans Chapter 8:18-25 : Tasting Hope. Without hope is it really possible to live? Here we see what hope looks like how it works. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.…
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Romans Chapter 8:14-17 : Going Home
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Romans Chapter 8:14-17: Going Home. Deep inside each one of us is a longing for a place we can call home. Christianity sees that longing as so powerful that no place on earth can satisfy it. Instead, the Spirit of Christ stands ready to work within our hearts, adopting us into God's family. Then we know that we are home. Contact Pastor Smart from o…
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Romans Chapter 8:5-13 : Choices in Life
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Romans Chapter 8:5-13 : Choices in Life. Which direction will our lives flow in and if you feel it's going in the wrong direction, how do you change track? It comes down to what mind set you have and who is in the driving seat. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Acha…
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Romans Chapter 8:1-4 : No Condemnation
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Romans Chapter 8:1-4 : A spirit of condemnation can burden anyone. But here we see how Christ opens up to us a way of life with the living God. Religious practice cannot remove this condemnation from us, but what they fail to achieve Christ has done and offers us the fruit of that now. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. …
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Romans Chapter 7:13-25 : When You Are Torn in Two
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Romans Chapter 7:13-25 : When You Are Torn in Two. Have you ever felt torn in two between the desire to do something that you know isn't right and your conscience? Here we learn how to walk the road to peace and freedom through the power of Christ. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4…
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Romans Chapter 7:1-12 : Two Weddings and a Funeral
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Romans Chapter 7:1-12 : Two Weddings and a Funeral. How does a Christian relate to the Law of God? How do we escape a deep sense of condemnation in life? The two questions are joined together in this passage and help us to see the freedom Christ can bring into our lives. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/…
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Romans Chapter 6:15-23 : A Different Kind of Freedom
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Romans Chapter 6:15-23: A Different Kind of Freedom. Everybody searches for experiences where they feel free, often in extreme sports. But what happens if you live in a wheelchair? The freedom Jesus Christ can bring us is so deep that he can liberate us from our deepest addictions because he deals with their roots. Contact Pastor Smart from our Chu…
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Romans Chapter 6:1-14 : The Dynamics of Spiritual Transformation
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Romans Chapter 6:1-14 : The Dynamics of Spiritual Transformation. At the heart of Christianity is the idea of transformation. But this is not something that you can gain separate from God himself. We don't snatch a ticket to heaven from Christ's hand, we grasp hold of his hand, knowing Christ himself is salvation. Contact Pastor Smart from our Chur…
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Romans Chapter 5:12-21 : Raised to Reign
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Romans Chapter 5:12-21 : Raised to Reign. We might feel it's unfair that the Bible teaches us that all have sinned in Adam. But the flip side of this is that anyone can be raised up to a newness of life by being in Christ. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh C…
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Romans Chapter 5:6-11: Love That Dies
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Romans Chapter 5:6-11 - Love That Dies. Do you ever feel that you are walking on eggshells with some people? It is very easy to feel like that in your relationship with God but in these words we encounter the stupendous love of God that alone can fill the longing of the human heart for a lasting love. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or…
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Romans Chapter 5:1-5: Walking Free Through Life
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Romans Chapter 5:1-5: Walking Free Through Life. Trusting in Christ brings many benefits in this life as well as the next. One of which is the interplay between peace and suffering which can strangely work together to grow your character in ways that otherwise would be impossible. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4…
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Romans Chapter 4:13-25: How to avoid making a car crash out of your faith!
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How to avoid making a car crash out of your faith! If anybody's faith could have suffered from a car crash it could have been Abraham as he was promised a child when he was in his old age. But in Romans Chapter 4:13-25 Paul walks us through his faith as an example of how we drive all the way home to God. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website…
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Romans 4: 9-12: The Parable of The Orchard
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The Parable of The Orchard. By looking at Romans Chapter 4:9-12 through the lens of a parable about an orchard we see who is in and who is out of God's kingdom. The view may shock religious people! Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin M…
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Boasting. Romans Chapter 3:27-31. Worship is like a well of water, it should refresh you. But it can be poisoned by boasting. If we think we have contributed even a tiny amount to our salvation we can’t put God on the highest level of gratitude. We “loom too large and God too small.” “We will not worship with the absolute sense of humility, depende…
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Romans Chapter 3:9-20: What Lies Beneath
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What Lies Beneath the surface of the people we think we know? Movies have been made to investigate that idea. In Romans Chapter 3:9-20 paints the darkest colors of humanity which Wester Civilisation for more than a thousand years gave strong credence to. It paints the picture of our inability to reach God through our efforts and thus sets the scene…
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Romans Chapter 3:1-8: God on Trial
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One of the big changes in people's thinking has been to put God on trial for all the evil things we see in this life. So in Romans Chapter 3:1-8 we see a very different picture, that it's humanity that has to answer for evil, even if we come from a place of spiritual privilege like the Jews did in the days when the Apostle Paul wrote these words. W…
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Romans Chapter 2:17-29: Save Me from Religion!
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Save Me From Religion. In Romans Chapter 2:17-29 Christianity claims that humanity needs to be saved from religion not by religion even at the same time as Christianity itself is a religion! Does your faith create pride or humility within you? If it's the latter then you are using God's Law as intended, as a means of pointing you to Jesus as the on…
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Romans Chapter 2:12-16: How can people be lost who have never heard about Jesus?
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How can people be lost who have never heard about Jesus? The Bible addresses this question in Romans Chapter 2:12-16 by telling us that people will be judged based on what they know about God through creation and their conscience. They won't be judged for rejecting Christ when they've never heard of him but they still face the judgment of the One w…
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Romans Chapter 2:1-11: The Dangers of Criticism
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The Dangers of Criticism. It's very easy when you feel you hold the moral high ground to look down on others. But in Romans Chapter 2:1-11 God puts a stop to that as we see that religion by itself cannot stop our own hearts sinning in similar ways to those we are quick to judge. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4ta…
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Romans Chapter 1:21-32: When God Gives Up?
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When God Gives Up? Instinctively everybody knows there is a God. But what do people do with that knowledge? Romans Chapter 1:21-32 tells us that we push that thought away because we are so focused on fulfilling the desires of our heart. The real fall out of that though is if God gives us over to those desires. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church w…
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Romans Chapter 1:18-20: No Excuses for Unbelief
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No Excuses For Unbelief. Is anyone alive who does not possess some knowledge of God? Paul answers that in Romans Chapter 1:18-20. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.…
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Romans Chapter 1:8-17: The Heart of the Christian
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The Heart of the Christian. The news that should travel through our lives is our faith. Romans Chapter 1:8-17 lays out the deepening, spreading, and emboldening nature of our trust in Christ. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod…
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Romans Chapter 1:1-7: The Message of Christianity
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Have you ever wondered why Christianity has had such a massive impact on human history? Well, in Romans Chapter 1:1-7 we see the power that has transformed Western civilization. Here we see how Christ can bring the most unlikely of people together as we begin to understand the significance that Jesus is God's son. Contact Pastor Smart from our Chur…
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Isaiah Chapter 5:1-7: Looking For Wine But Finding Vinegar!
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Looking For Wine But Finding Vinegar! Sometimes you can do everything right but things still go wrong! Being left with such unfulfilled expectations is hard but in Isaiah Chapter 5:1-7 it's God who expresses that with his people. But we also see a way back if we know we have let God down. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an emai…
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Isaiah Chapter 4:2-6: Critical Leadership
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Critical Leadership - Isaiah Chapter 4:2-6 shows us how Christ leads us through life's challenges. We see who he is, what he's like, and what he can do. All this often comes clear to us when we are in survival mode, in the minority, feeling forgotten by God and feeling guilty. Yet he gives us real protection and a path to our true home. Contact Pas…
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Isaiah Chapters 2 and 3: A Hopeless World?
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A Hopeless World? - Isaiah Chapters 2 and 3 unpacks for us hope, even in the face of a realistic perspective on life, an offer of peace, and a call to walk in the light of God. He shows us what spiritual collapse looks like in a culture leaving us to ask what we put our trust in. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4t…
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Isaiah Chapter 1: Thankless Children
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Thankless Children - We can all get nervous about the world we live in and where it's heading. In Isaiah Chapter 1 shows three levels of collapse, national, religious and social. He illustrates what is behind this by taking us around a small town where we stop at home, a farm, a hospital, a church before finally stopping at the laundrette where our…
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Missing Jesus at the Festival. At Christmas it's easy to be caught up with everything that happens and miss its significance just as Mary and Joseph missed Jesus at the festival in Luke 2:1-12, 41-53. Instead, the greatest discovery of life lies open before us; that the Father of Jesus can become our Father too. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church…
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Jesus shows us that it's often those who think they have already got life figured out that are blind to the bigger picture (John 9 verse 41). While if we are humble enough to admit we don't know everything then we are in a better place to begin to see what God wants to do in us and through us. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an…
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Born to Die! The most devasting thing you can face in life is probably going to be the death of a loved one. In Hebrews 2:10-18 we see that one of the main reasons for Jesus coming into this world was to destroy the fear of death that still haunts humanity. Christ claims to have an answer to that fear and that is a claim we all need to listen to. C…
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Homeless at Christmas - God's love towards outsiders who are far from home is seen in the famous encounter between Jesus and Zacchaeus in Luke 19:1-10. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons At…
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