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A fifteen minute weekly radio message. Primary Format : Christian Language : English Also Listed as: Christian City : Grand Rapids State/Province : MI Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: radio | Rap | View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Words of Hope :: Weekly Message Podcasts Methings.com listings of Words of Hope :: Weekly Message Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

The Great Confession Who do you say I am? It's the most important question you will ever answer: who is Jesus Christ? If you need a hint about the answer, stay tuned. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Pharisees' Leaven What sort of warning do you think Jesus would give to the contemporary church? In a cryptic comment about the conduct of his enemies, Jesus told his followers to beware the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. Within that ancient figure of speech lies an important warning for us today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Persistence of Faith Why would Jesus ever deny someone who begged him for help? One of the most troubling stories in the gospels describes an encounter between Jesus and a Canaanite mother that seems to show him rejecting her in her time of need. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Question of Authority Where do you go for your ideas about God and religion? Few things are more traditional than religion, and that's good. But Jesus warns us that tradition can also be bad. We need a higher authority for our beliefs and practices - the Word of God. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Walking on Water Do you know how to walk on water? By faith in Jesus Christians can, at least figuratively, walk on water - true or false? Actually, it's true and false. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Bread of Life Do you know what it means to eat the bread of life? Jesus' most popular miracle - the only one recorded in all four gospels - was the feeding of the 5,000. Why did he do that? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Prophet Without Honor Is it possible to be too familiar with Jesus? Matthew tells about an incident where Jesus went home again, only to find that his old friends and neighbors were unimpressed with him. In their case, familiarity bred contempt. Don't let that happen to you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Pearl of Great Price What does it profit you if you gain the whole world and forfeit your life? Is there anything in the world that's worth the price of your soul? Jesus' parable of the Pearl of Great Price urges us to take a much wiser approach to the way we invest our lives, and the return we expect on our investment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Mustard Seed How does the church grow; how does God's kingdom come? Jesus' parable of the Mustard Seed offers us a clue about the way God's work advances in the world. Hint: it doesn't happen the way most people expect it would. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wheat and Weeds Where does evil come from? The problem of evil is age-old, and one of the biggest struggles for faith. Why is so much wrong in God's good world? What should we do about it? Jesus answers both those questions by means of a parable - but his answers may provoke more questions for you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hearing Ear You know why Jesus told so many stories, don't you? It was to engage and entertain his audience (unlike so many boring sermons); it was to make his teaching clear and memorable (unlike so many obscure lectures). Or was it? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sower How do I respond to the gospel message? Jesus' told a story about the sower, the seed and the different kinds of soil. Its meaning seems clear. Isn't it all about the different ways people respond to the gospel? Or is it also about how I respond? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Joy-filled Certainty What wonderful certainties can flood our hearts with joy? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Led by the Spirit What does the Holy Spirit bring about in the depths of our lives? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Our Inner Struggle What cure can there be for our agonizing inner conflict? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crucified and Risen With Christ What does it mean for our daily living that we have died and been raised with Christ? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Great God's Love! What shows us how greatly we are loved by God? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Losers Keepers, Finders Weepers Do you know the saying, "Finders keepers, losers weepers"? When it comes to your most important possession, your own life, Jesus turns it on its head. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hard Sayings Some things that Jesus said are hard to understand; others are hard to accept and follow. But everything he said is important! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Trouble Ahead When Jesus sends his followers out into the world with the gospel he warns us that it could be dangerous. But don't worry. Everything turns out well in the end. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Disciples and Apostles Here's a simple way of remembering what we are as Christians: followers of Jesus are called disciples, or "learners." And disciples are called apostles, or missionaries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pray the Lord of the Harvest Biblical Christians realize that Christ has commissioned us to do something about a world of lost people. But we don't always remember that the first thing he told us to do is pray. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Compassion of Jesus Your response to the world's suffering depends on what you force yourself to notice. Thankfully when Jesus looks at a lost world, feels compassion, and then does something. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Blind and the Mute When Jesus walked the earth the lame walked, the deaf heard, the blind saw and the mute sang for joy. Miracles were signs and clues to Jesus' true identity. And for us, they are previews of the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life for the Dead What Jesus did one day for a little girl who had died, he will do on a grander, more permanent and glorious scale on the last day for all who belong to him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Question of Fasting What should be a Christian's attitude toward the religious rule and spiritual practices that some say we ought to observe? Jesus' teaching helps us consider that. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In the Garden Today all over the globe Christians by the hundreds of millions are gathering for worship and greeting one another with the words, "Christ is risen!" This is our witness to the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Father's Cup In this special Words of Hope program for Holy Week, David Bast explores how Jesus' suffering and death on our behalf can transform our understanding of our own suffering. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Follow Me Jesus' most basic command was a simple two-word order:"Follow me."How likely you are to do that depends on just how you see yourself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It's Easy to Say Religious claims - to have the power to heal or forgive people, for example - are easy to make. What counts is the ability to back them up with deeds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Great Emancipator Abraham Lincoln was called"the Great Emancipator"for his role in freeing the American slaves, but Jesus Christ truly is the Great Emancipator. He came to set people free from every kind of bondage: spiritual, emotional, and physical. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who Is this Man? Matthew tells the story of how Jesus and his disciples were caught in a violent storm while crossing the sea of Galilee. But the remarkable thing is that the disciples were more nervous after the storm than during it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Following Jesus Whenever Jesus talked to people about following him, he insisted on two points. One was how difficult that is to do. The other was how crucially important it is that we actually do follow him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prophecy Fulfilled The gospels are full of stories about Jesus healing people from every sort of disease and affliction. But have you ever wondered why he did that? If so, listen to what Matthew says today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Touched by Jesus The first miracle described in the gospel of Matthew is an amazing demonstration, not just of Jesus' power, but of his compassionate love. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hearing, Talking, Doing Jesus' teaching is most fully expressed in his Sermon on the Mount, an appealing message that ends on an ominous note. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Be Not Afraid With the holidays passed and winter stretching ahead, it's easy to feel a letdown, or maybe you're anxious about what the coming year might bring. If that's the case, God has a word for you today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Song of Simeon The Song that the aged Simeon sang as he held baby Jesus in his arms has served as a parting blessing for believers of all ages ever since. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Song of the Angels What does Christmas truly mean? The angels tell us in the song they sang to the shepherds: it means glory for God, and peace for us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Song of Mary Mary's song, known as the "Magnificat," reminds us that Christ's coming doesn't just mean salvation for individuals, but has profound social implications as well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christ the Cornerstone Drawing upon the imagery of the 118th Psalm, Jesus Christ claims to be the cornerstone of life for those who trust him. But for those who reject him, it spells disaster and ruin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christ Our Hope Psalm 8 is a beautiful meditation on the Genesis creation account. But it really speaks not just about humanity in general but about one human in particular: Jesus Christ. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christ Our Shepherd This simple message of the 23rd Psalm expresses a profound truth in beautiful imagery. But the New Testament tells us even more: the Lord who is our shepherd is none other than Jesus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christ Our King What does the 45th Psalm, an Old Testament poem originally written to celebrate the marriage of one of Israel's kings, have to do with Jesus Christ? The answer, as the apostle Paul might have put it, is "much, in every way"! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christ Our High Priest Psalm 110 became the New Testament writers' favorite chapter of the Bible because it speaks of two things: Christ's exalted place at God's right hand, and his eternal high priesthood, in the mysterious "order of Melchizedek." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christ the Lord In what surely must be a record, the first verse of Psalm 110 is quoted or referred to 17 times in the New Testament. What is it that made this verse the apostles' favorite text? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christ the Victor Someone has said that evil and death can never win in the end, because they lost at the only time they could have really won - at the cross. But life and righteousness won when Christ "arose as victor from the dark domain." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christ the Savior Psalm 22 is the most haunting of all the references to Christ in the whole Old Testament, for its haunting opening words were the ones he spoke as he - the Savior of the world - died on the cross. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christ Our Sacrifice The writer to the Hebrews was especially interested in the Old Testament ordinances regulating the priesthood. He saw in the 40th Psalm an important clue to the priestly work that Jesus would come to accomplish. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website