Our Journey to Hope
This podcast offers a variety insights into developing, sustaining, and regaining hope. All of us have the potential to have our hope challenged by life events, or we know someone whose hope is currently being challenged.
I invite you to explore this critical topic with us and please, share this with others. Remember, no one walks alone.
The opinions expressed by guests on this podcast do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the host. Guests are encouraged to express their opinions and insights freely in the interest of providing understanding and encouragement to others.
For more information, please visit my website at: https://ourjourneytohope.com/
Episodes
90 episodes
Episode 85 - Hope Revisited
Please forgive this as a rebroadcast of a previous episode from 2023. I felt it would be a good idea to reach back and revisit foundational information on the concept of hope. In this episode I offer an explanation of what hope is a...
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Season 3
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Episode 85
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30:19
Episode 84 - Discovering God's Will
A question that often comes up is whether something is according to God's will. It is certainly a good idea to seek God's will in everything. However, sometimes we might feel that it is difficult to determine exactly what God's will...
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Season 3
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Episode 84
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13:29
Episode 83 - A Conversation With Bradley McGlothlin - Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover
As the title states, it is easy to draw conclusions based on how something or someone looks. An initial look at my guest Bradley McGlothlin may cause some to outright reject him as a hopeless case and certainly someone who we would not be...
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Season 3
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Episode 83
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21:27
Episodee 82 - A Conversation With Bill Allen - The Power and Joy of Hope
One of the wonderful things about being a fellow believer in our Lord is the life-time relationships we enjoy. Such is the case with my guest in this episode. I have a conversation with Dr. Bill Allen. Bill and I have known ea...
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Season 2
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Episode 82
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48:15
Bonus Episode - Helping Others With Hope
All of us have faced challenges to our hope, perhaps even to our life. And as we've overcome those challenges we now are in a position where we can help others. It is one of the best ways to strengthen our own hope. In...
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10:25
Episode 81 - Satan's Tactics - Other Tactics Satan Uses Against Us
In this series of discussions we've looked at Satan's overal strategies of trying to prevent us from being a child of God, or to weaken or destroy our faith and influence. In doing so, he seeks to seperate us from God therefor hurting God...
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Season 2
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Episode 81
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12:40
Episode 80 - Satan's Tactics - Causing Us to Doubt
Satan employs three foundational tactics to cause us to sin and seperate us from God. We've looked at two of these, pride and deception. In this episode I look at how Satan uses doubt as the third element of the triad of tactics.
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Season 2
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Episode 80
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20:49
Episode 79 - Satan's Tactics - Satan the Great Deceiver
Someone once said that a half-truth is a whole lie. We hear a lot of lies and half-truths, especially when it comes to spiritual things.In this episode I continue to look at how Satan attacks us with various tactics. When he...
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Season 2
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Episode 79
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15:41
Episode 78 - A Conversation With Mike Wilson About True and Lasting Hope
One of my favorite hymns is, “My Hope Is Built On Nothing Less.” This hymn was written by Edward Mote in 1834. It is a joyful hymn expressing how our true and lasting hope is found in our Lord, Jesus the Christ. In this ...
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Season 2
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Episode 78
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30:33
Episode 77 - A Conversation With Steve Gamlin About Vision and Hope
Does your life seem to be up and down, inside and out? Well, you are not experiencing something all by yourself. All of us have experienced life, as my guest describes it, as living on a pogo stick. It goes up and down and doe...
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Season 2
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Episode 77
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28:39
Episode 76 - A Conversation With Dr. Rubel Shelly on Bringing Hope to Families Dealing With the Transgender Issue
One of the most difficult issues facing many families, not only in our culture, but in other’s as well is the issue of transgenderism. It has the potential and has all too often ripped apart the fabric of families. As a minimum it adds st...
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Season 2
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Episode 76
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52:16
Episode 75 - Satan's Tactics - Overcoming the Danger of Pride
All of us express pride in some way. Sometimes this is not a harmful or bad thing. But pride can also be harmful. In this episode I continue talking about how Satan uses various tactics to seperate us from God by causi...
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Season 2
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Episode 75
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20:47
Episode 74 - Defeating Satan's Strategies
Sometimes challenges to our hope discourage us from continuing to try. Sometimes they even interfere with our desire to find and do God's will. As we face these challenges to our hope, we must remember that the source of our...
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Season 1
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Episode 74
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14:47
Episode 73 - A Conversation With Bill and Kathy Hardy of Gospel Sharing Ministries
It is a wonderful thing when we discover the passion for our life. So many times folks will flounder around looking for purpose and meaning in their life. This is not so with Bill and Kathy Hardy. They not only discovered thei...
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Season 2
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Episode 73
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47:48
Episode 72 - A Conversation With Chuck Basaldua, Friend and Fellow Sojourner
We've stated many times in the episodes of this podcast that all of us face challenges to our hope. Some folks may perhaps be facing a significant challenge for the first time in their life. Others have faced various challenges and ...
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Season 2
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Episode 72
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33:56
Episode 71 - A Conversation With Eric Lyons of Aplogetics Press
The English language, and perhaps other languages as well has many words that have different meanings. One such word is the word apologetics. To many folks, the word suggests the idea of apologizing for something we’ve done wrong.&n...
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Season 2
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Episode 71
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31:16
Episode 70 - A Conversation With Clayton Johnson of the Carbon Valley Church of Christ
Whenever I’m speaking with someone who is facing challenges to their hope, that they are not alone. We are together in our journey to hope. Quite frequently there are those whose environment, situations in life, and their singular e...
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Season 2
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Episode 70
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38:52
Episode 69 - A Conversation With Timothy Henry, Sayre, Pennsylvania
In this episode I am speaking with a young man who was facing a lot in his life that could lead to hopelessness. It may not have been conscious on his part, but this young man was a seeker. One thing I know for certain is that the H...
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Season 2
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Episode 69
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45:49
Episode 68 - A Conversation With Arthur Barry, Evangelist in Sayre, Pennsylvania
One of the blessings all of us share is to have wonderful friends who encourage and support us in our life. Arthur and Sandy Barry have been friends with us since 2016 when we came to know them through an evangelistic effort we shared in ...
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Season 1
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Episode 67
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34:46
Episode 67 - Faith, A Matter of Choice
As we continue in our journey to hope, it becomes obvious that faith plays a major role in the direction and success in which we travel. Faith and hope are intertwined and supportive of one another. As our faith grows, so to does ou...
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Season 2
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Episode 67
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38:24
Bonus Episode - The Hope Poem
It's not unusual to feel alone and overwhelmed when life throws challenges at us. We also may feel in these moments that these challenges pile on seeming to crush us by their number and weight. It is in these moments that it is very...
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Season 2
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4:59
Episode 66 - A Conversation With Don Moore - Lads to Leaders/Leaderettes
We all have knowledge, skills, and experiences that we can use to help others discover, sustain, or regain hope. We might not recognize these in ourselves, but they are there. In this episode I have a conversation with Don Mo...
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Season 2
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Episode 66
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47:17
Episode 65 - The Three C's of Christianity
A lot of us learn or think in some sort of pattern. We find comfort in patterns to help us understand and live our life. We can learn outside of a pattern, but it helps to have one. In this episode, I want to look at a p...
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Season 1
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Episode 65
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15:11
Episode 64 - Understanding the Cost
You've heard it expressed in some form or another that everything has a cost or that nothing is truly free. This is applicable to true and lasting hope. True and lasting hope is found only in our Lord Jesus Christ. The...
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14:18
Episode 63 - Going Out on a Limb
In this episode I want to look at a character known to many who traveled from hopeless to hopeful through his interaction with Jesus. This man was willing to sacrifice his dignity to get a chance to see Jesus. Of course, I'm talking...
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Season 2
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Episode 63
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