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CrossHope Podcast
by CrossHope Ministries
A weekly podcast site delivering uplifting Christian messages, pointing people to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Episodes
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Submission, Not What You Think
This is the last week this program will air on Sirius/XM. After 10.5 years on the “Family Talk Channel”, the decision was made to end this phase of the ministry. The program will continue to air on WFCJ- FM 93.7 in Dayton, Ohio. (It will have the new name, “Heritage” radio on the Dayton station.)...
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Christmas Time… Management
We begin with an announcement that our program will not be heard after December 31 on the “Family Talk Channel” on Sirius/XM. It will continue on WFCJ 93.7 FM, in Dayton, Ohio. We will say more each day over the next two weeks on CrossHope. We have been on the “Family Talk Channel” on Sirius/XM…
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Who Is Your Model?
This we look at one of the most “unpopular” scriptures in the entire Bible! It is particularly unpopular in a culture that says that today in 2020, “there is no such thing as sexual sin or impurity”. We have grown up and beyond that kind of thing. We are “free” to do whatever we please. It begins...
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New Wardrobe?
Figuratively speaking, coming to Christ according to the Apostle Paul, was coming into a “total wardrobe change”. Everything was changed because of the new relationship with the Lord. The change begins with our minds, moves onto speech and behavior. Most of all, the greatest change of all is to…
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United For a Reason!
Any group can be united if they work at it! Even a group that believes little or nothing can be united. The Apostle Paul told the church at Ephesus that they were to be united for a reason: to build up the body of Christ, and to “prepare God’s people for works of service”. He goes on to say that...
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United or Divided?
We read out loud six verses from Ephesians. One of these verses is so powerful; we made the claim that if we practiced this verse, it could do dramatic things in a marriage, a family, and in a career! When you hear the passage read, try to guess which verse it is! It’s a passage about unity in…
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Gratitude and Memory
There’s a connection between gratitude and memory. If you forget what someone has done for you, you’re not real grateful to that person. That’s true in a marriage, a family, and in your relationship with the Living God! But the word “forget” means more than just “ceasing to remember”. It actually...
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Humble Servant or Proud One?
Does humility play a part in your life? In many people’s lives, humility takes a back seat. In some lives, it rides in the trunk. This week we look at why humility is not a suggestion, but a strong admonition to you and me! The Apostle Paul gives us all a lesson in humility, the why of humility,...
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Two Words: Peace and Hostility
Occasionally, we discover another meaning to a word we use commonly. Perhaps it will happen to you this week on CrossHope with these two words we use often, peace and hostility. They are the two operative words in our text today in Ephesians. The Apostle Paul reminds new Christians who were...
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Prayer: Matter of Pride or Humility?
People can take pride in just about everything! That’s true in our physical lives, but also in our spiritual lives, if we are honest. The Apostle Paul compliments the people of Ephesus about their faith in Christ and their love for others. His compliment was sincerely given, but not meant as a...
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Words That Change My Life!
Many scholars think that the book of the New Testament we begin studying, just maybe the most important of all the letter of Paul! The words we study today in chapter one can honestly change someone’s life as they read and internalize them. Words are important in your marriage, in your family…
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The God Who Is Jealous!
People usually won’t admit to jealousy, but it is a common “malady” in our lives today in 2020. Jealousy exists in marital relationships, friendships, work, school, and neighborhood interactions. Rarely do people talk about the jealousy of the Lord God Almighty! That will be the running theme in...
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The God Who Demands Obedience!
Obedience is a touchy subject in most families. Some children are naturally obedient; others seem naturally disobedient. Which one were you? This week, we study about God’s people in the southern Kingdom called Judah who promised God total obedience. Unfortunately, they did the very thing the…
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The God Who Says, Pay Attention!
Do you remember being asked by a parent, a teacher, a spouse, a child to pay attention to what I am saying to you? We all can. God asks the same thing of you and me! In one of the final messages from this book of the Bible, Jeremiah says the Lord God Almighty wants your attention to what He says!...
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The God Who Teaches a Lesson
This is the most unusual story in the entire Bible! A man named Recab ordered his existing family and all their future descendants to do two things. They must never ever drink wine; and they must always live in tents, never in houses. The remarkable thing is this: they obeyed his edict for…
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The God of our Prayers
Most people pray in a crisis or emergency situation, but not much more than that. Others pray as a matter of “religious behavior or obligation”. Still there are those who pray because of their relationship with our heavenly Father. For them, prayer comes naturally and from the heart. Where are…
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The God of the Covenant
If you are believer in Jesus Christ, you are in a covenant relationship with God the Father through God the Son! It’s His covenant, and we step into that covenant for the rest of our lives. People end or even break covenants today in 2020. (Including a covenant called marriage) Breaking covenant...
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The God With a Plan
Would it surprise you to know that God has a plan for your life? He does, if you believe Jeremiah in the 29th chapter of “his” book of the Bible. Although some would say that this passage does not “apply” to us, it does reflect the heart and character of God! God is a God concerned for His…
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The God Who Loves
We are known by whom we love and who loves us. It’s a bigger issue in our lives than we may think. Your life has been impacted not only by the people that love you; we are impacted by the people that should love us, but don’t! Jeremiah says that we are loved by God with an everlasting love. No…
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The God Who is the Mighty Warrior
Jeremiah is the most self-revealing author in the Bible! The prophet who said that the Lord knew him in the womb, and had a plan for his life before birth tells us he wishes he had never been born! How do you get that way? I think from bitterness and depression. He reveals his depression in this...
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The God Who Molds Us
Many scholars say that Jerimiah 18:1-12 is the most famous of all the passages in this book of the Bible. Others would say it is one of the top three! Regardless, it’s an important statement for your life and mine. Simply put, God is the “potter” of my life; I’m simply the clay or material…
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The God Who Knows Our Hearts
Have you ever had your heart checked by the family physician or a cardiologist? Did you know that the Lord claims to search the heart and examine the mind? But, Jeremiah says that the “heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure!” He’s talking about your heart and mine. We can be deceived...
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The God Who Demands Humility
God is interested in humility in your life and mine. In fact, He doesn’t suggest it, He demands it! Why would the Lord of Heaven and Earth be worried about pride, bragging, and boasting in our lives? The ultimate extension of boasting and bragging of something is worship! We can worship the very...
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The God That Children Remember!
This is one of a few passages in scripture that speaks of the spiritual impact on the lives of children by the belief and practices of their parents. Unfortunately, it is not positive. Reflecting on the idolatry of God’s people earlier, the prophet Jeremiah says that “even their children remember...
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The God That Is To Be Heard!
Have you ever felt that the people closest to you don’t even listen to you? Parents can feel that with their children. Men and women experience that with their spouses. The Lord God Almighty expressed that thought with the very people He delivered out of the slavery of Egypt! Here’s what He said,...
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The God That is Forgotten!
The biblical term for “forgetting” actually has two meanings. First, to forget can mean to “cease to remember”. Worse than that, it can mean “to cease to care”. We’ve all been all the receiving end of someone else’s forgetting. But if we are honest, we have been on the giving end of ceasing to...
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The God with a Plan!
We just completed a brief three-week series from the middle of Jeremiah called “Life’s Realties”. It dealt with issues that spoke to the Corona Virus crisis in our country and our world. Today we begin a full-series from the same book of the Bible. It’s called, “The God we Know, The God we...
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Our Sins Testify Against Us!
Did you know that everything we do, everything we say, and everything we think or imagine makes a statement about who and what we are? Why would we say that? Because the prophet Jeremiah told the people of God that “their sins testified against them.” The word “testify” means to bear witness.…
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The Fairness of Life?
This new series from Jeremiah comes partially out of what we are dealing with in terms of the world crisis with the Corona Virus. Suffice it to say, we have never been impacted in the way we have been with all that surrounds us in 2020. These messages come from a book of the Bible that contains...
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We’re in Control, Right?
This new series comes partially out of what we are dealing with in terms of the world crisis with the Corona Virus. Suffice it to say, we have never been impacted in the way we have been with all that surrounds us in 2020. These messages come from a book of the Bible that contains some of the...
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Wandering From the Truth
Have you ever known someone to cease being a faithful follower of Christ, only to seemingly slip away from the Lord and His church? Maybe it was a friend or family member. James calls it “wandering from the truth”. If “truth” in Christianity is what we claim it to be, to wander from the truth is…
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A Picture of the Church
There was obviously no cameras in the early church. But James gives us a “picture” of the early church in chapter five. The early church was a praying and a praising church. The early church was a healing church; both physically and spiritually. The early church was a “confessing” church, meaning...
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A Second Look At Patience
Have you ever prayed for “patience” in a personal situation, a family matter, or a work or school difficulty? Maybe you have, perhaps it never occurred to you to do so! The book of James talks about patience in suffering. The early church did suffer persecution and intimidation for practicing…
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Three Money Myths
A myth is defined as an opinion or belief that is unproven. We discuss three “money myths”, using the passage in James 5:1-6 this week. Money is the most sensitive issue in people’s lives! If you don’t believe it, start a “discussion” that involves money. Watch the sparks begin to fly! That’s...
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Tomorrow Thinking?
If there ever was a passage of the book of James that was more current or timely to study, this has to be one of them! It’s about people who are what we are calling “tomorrow thinkers”. We live, work, and socialize with people who are always talking about what they’re going to do tomorrow. Does...
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A Second Look At Slander
Most people think of the word “slander” as a legal term. That’s because it is! It means to defame someone verbally or orally. (Libel is defamation in writing.) But Biblically, slander is “speech that injures”. James deals with the issue in chapter four. It evidently was a problem in the early...
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Children of the Resurrection?
Several years ago, my mother died on the Tuesday before Easter. On that following Sunday, I decided that I “needed” to preach that Easter Sunday to remind myself of the hope that we have in the Risen Christ. This week we air that message from Luke 20, where Jesus talks about the people who are…
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What Causes Conflict?
A major portion of life (that is unspoken) for many people is conflict. It manifests itself as conflict in the family, at work or school, in neighborhoods, and yes even in the church. James addresses the issue in the fourth chapter of the book with the question, “What causes fights and quarrels...
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Wisdom or Intelligence?
For some reason, this passage of scripture was difficult for me to preach. Why? Perhaps we have trouble comprehending the difference between worldly intelligence and Godly wisdom. Intelligence is measured by tests and exams; Godly wisdom is measured by a life that is lived. God gives wisdom; that...
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Power of the Tongue
The most powerful “part” of the body is the tongue! In the same way that a ship’s rudder is small, yet it directs the movement of a massive ship. The bit of in a horse’s mouth is small, yet it boasts great power in controlling the whole animal. The tongue directs your body and mine! We can all…
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Talker or Doer?
Did you know that in church history there were some who didn’t think the book of James should be included in what is called the “Canon of the New Testament”? Some thought that James perhaps contradicted the writings of the Apostle Paul when he said that “faith without works is dead”. Paul taught...
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Law Breaker or Law Keeper?
I doubt if there are many people reading this that would think of themselves as a “law breaker”. If we’re believers, we’re all “law keepers”, right? Don’t be too quick to answer that question. This message contains one of the most powerful illustrations I’ve ever used. It’s not a “tear jerker”…
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God’s Least Favorite Thing
The word is “favoritism”. What does that word mean to you? Maybe it brings up memories from childhood about a brother or sister, or even a classmate. Did you know that in the early church, favoritism was a problem? People showed favoritism toward people with money and fine clothes. James tells…
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Anger II
This is the second half of a 2-part message on the subject of anger. According to an author by the name of Clarence McCartney of years gone by, “Anger negatively impacts friendships, destroys peace and concord in the home, and generally wreaks havoc in groups of any size!” What has anger done in...
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Anger! I
I am beginning to believe that anger just maybe one of the most sensitive issues in people’s lives. When I preached about anger from this passage in James years ago, more people requested copies of the message more than any message I’ve given over 37 years on the radio! That speaks volumes to me....
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Test of Maturity
Do you remember the moment when one of your children showed some maturity in a situation, never shown before? It can be a “Kodak” moment in their life and yours. One of the signs of maturity in a Christian’s life is when they understand and apply the verses in James that we study today. James…
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Count It as Joy
The book of James quite possibly was a sermon given by James. It was then written down and the manuscript or book was sent to Jewish believers all over the known world. It’s a book that deals with practical Christianity; Christianity lived out in everyday life. James exhorted his listeners and...
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Why He Came
We have never done this before on CrossHope, but we began this message on the Sunday before Christmas with showing and hearing a Visual Story from our website, called “Unexpected Faith”. It was a powerful moment as we share the audio at the beginning of this message so that you may hear what the...
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Tolerant?
Tolerance is an important word in our culture today in 2020. It’s become a political “doctrine” to be upheld! And yet Joshua, in one of his final messages to the people of Israel commands them not to tolerate the pagan gods and idols of the people of Canaan. Why did he say that? Because some of…
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Mission Statement: 3 Words
You may work for a company that has a “mission statement”. Most companies and organizations do. Some are quite serious, others are humorous. Most are quite creative. Do you have a personal mission statement? Is there a statement that sums up your life and purpose as a believer in Jesus Christ…
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