Our Resolute Hope Podcast

Affair-Proof Your Marriage. Practical Guidance from Scripture.

The Bible offers much advice for avoiding the path of adultery.  But the most foundational is from Ephesians 5:21, “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ”.

Affair-Proof Your Marriage. Rejecting the Counterfeits.

Bogus intimacy comes in many forms, and all of them can be enticing.  But they’re hollow and unfulfilling, poor substitutes for the real intimacy that comes from God alone.

Affair-Proof Your Marriage. Letting God Love Through Us.

God created us to be filled with the treasure of His life.  Only when His life overflows in us can we really love our spouses the way they need to be loved.

Pivotal Words – Giving From the Heart (part 2)

Proper understanding of giving requires proper understanding of the covenants.  We are to receive freely and give freely, led by the Spirit, not reluctantly from guilt or obligation.

Pivotal Words – Tithing … or Giving? (part 1)

Few topics are more sensitive than money.  The tithe supported the theocracy of Israel, but in the new covenant, giving is from the heart, an act of individual worship.

Pivotal Words – Therefore (part 2)

Throughout his epistles, Apostle Paul describes all our Father has done for us in Christ.  Paul then uses that as a foundation to describe how we should then live.

Pivotal Words – Therefore (part 1)

Often overlooked, this empowering word shows how what God has done can transform our lives and conform us into the image of His Son, Jesus Christ.

Pivotal Words – Worship (part 2)

True worship always produces the fruit of service, offered heartily unto the Lord.  As living sacrifices, we serve by doing the most redemptive, constructive, and honoring things for others.

Pivotal Words – Worship (part 1)

This glorious word means to bow down, to prostrate yourself before the One Who is greater.  It’s a mindset rooted in trust, a determined choice that says, “Not my will, but yours be done”.

Pivotal Words – Obedience is Love (part 2)

Not a word of compliance or conformity, obedience works a miracle in our lives.  It transforms us into people who can do the impossible … love others the way Jesus loves us.