Our Resolute Hope Podcast

Life in the Body of Christ – Be Kind to One Another

Christ’s life empowers us not just to do kind things but to be kind.  Kindness is part of our identity as Christ-ones.  It’s a Spirit-led desire to invest time in others and to treat them better than they deserve.

Life in the Body of Christ – Prefer One Another, Greet One Another

Christ's life empowers us to value and cherish one another, accepting them fully and receiving them joyfully, making sure they know they're in a place where they belong, a place where everybody knows their name.

Life in the Body of Christ – Show Humility to One Another

Christ’s life empowers us, not just to act humbly but to be humble people.  To make determined, purposeful choices that we’ll consider others as more important and empty ourselves to serve one another.

The Lonely Path of Pain – Suicide. When the Pain FEELS Too Great

Pains of life can hurt so much that suicide can seem like the only way out.  In this first of two podcasts, Frank and John discuss motives for suicide, deceptions behind those motives, and the damage to survivors.

The Lonely Path of Pain – Setting Our Minds

Our minds can be battlegrounds.  And pain can make us vulnerable to the enemy’s lies.  Cementing our minds on the truth about ourselves, our circumstances, and our God is key.  Like David, we must choose to say, “I will trust in you”.

The Lonely Path of Pain – The Agony of Faith

Trusting God while overwhelmed by pain can seem impossible to do.  Frank and John discuss 1 Timothy 1:6 – our need to fight (agonize) the good fight (agony) of faith and to trust God in our sufferings.

The Lonely Path of Pain – Freedom in the Fire

Often, we feel that we’re alone in our pain.  But as Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah learned (Daniel 3), they were never alone, even in the furnace.  And in that fire, they found their freedom.

The Lonely Path of Pain – The Faithless Facade

Most believers don’t understand pain’s purpose in their lives.  Meet Susie, who dared to meet God in her pain.  And there she found freedom.  She found God in a way she never knew Him.

The Lonely Path of Pain – A Radical Response to Pain

Pain can shatter our life into what seems like an unfixable mess.  When this happens, many paths are open to us.  But only one works … to sit down in our pain and invite God to meet us there.

The Lonely Path of Pain – A Purpose to Our Pain

God allows pain into our lives for a reason … so that we, like Apostle Paul, might acknowledge and accept our weakness and allow Jesus’ life to be manifest in us (2 Corinthians 4:8-10).