Our Journey to Hope
We all 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. Our goal is to strengthen our own hope while helping others discover, sustain, or regain hope.
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
98 episodes
Episode 98 - A Conversation With Julie Harris-Fain, Fellow Cancer Survivor and Volunteer
It is common to see volunteers serving at hospitals, clinics, cancer centers, and other such medical providers. These volunteers often share the commonality of having received excellent care. It creates in us a sense of wanting to h...
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Episode 98
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Episode 97 - Bonus Episode - The Three Crosses
Have you ever wondered why most images of Calvary show three crosses when truly only one cross is important? I thought about that recently and came to understand the symbolism of not only our Lord's cross, but also the relevancy to rememb...
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Episode 97
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Episode 96 - A Conversation With Enhabit Hospice
When we hear that hospice has been called in to assist someone, we often think the person is at the end of their life, that there remains no more hope for living. This is not always true. Hospice does so much more for a person and h...
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Episode 96
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Episode 95 - A Conversation With Dr. Steve Wages of the Cloverdale Center for Youth and Family
It is exciting to find someone living their passion in life. My guest on this episode is Dr. Steve Wages, Director of the Cloverdale Center for Youth and Family. You can hear the passion in his voice for his work with families as he has made it...
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Episode 95
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Episode 94 - A Conversation With Kyle Johnson on True and Lasting Hope
In this episode I have the honor of discussing true and lasting hope with Kyle Johnson, minister at the Lafayette Church of Christ in Ballwin, Missouri. We have a detailed discussion about the concept of hope and how we bring it to those ...
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Episode 94
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Episode 93 - A Conversation With Eddie and Madolyn Lewis of the Student Christian Center, Moorhead, Mississippi
In today’s episode I have the joy of interviewing my dear friend Madolyn Lewis and my new friend Eddie. They are associated with the Christian Student Center in Moorhead, Mississippi. Their efforts are significant in introducing stu...
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Episode 93
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Episode 92 - A Conversation With Phil Rizzo About Truth, Justice, and Hope
Among the things I enjoy as a podcaster is meeting fascinating individuals and making friends. Such is the case in this podcast as I am chatting with someone who is also a fellow podcaster, a fascinating guest, and a new friend. I h...
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Episode 92
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Episode 91 - Bonus Episode - Blessing of Hope ~ A Poem By Jan Richardson
In my continued searching for deeper understanding about hope I come across many excellent thoughts from a wide variety of sources. Recently I read a poem by Jan Richardson from the book, "The Cure for Sorrow: A Book of Blessings for Time...
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Episode 90 - 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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Episode 90
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Episode 89 - 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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Episode 89
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Episode 88 - 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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Episode 88
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Episodee 87 - 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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Episode 87
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Episode 86 - 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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Episode 85 - 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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Episode 85
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Episode 84 - 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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Episode 84
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Episode 83 - 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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Episode 83
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Episode 82 - 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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Episode 82
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Episode 81- 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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Episode 81
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Episode 80 - 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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Episode 80
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Episode 79 - 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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Episode 79
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20:47
Episode 78 - 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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Episode 78
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Episode 77 - 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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Episode 77
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Episode 76 - 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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Episode 76
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Episode 75 - 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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Episode 75
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Episode 74 - 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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