Our Resolute Hope Podcast

Christ’s life empowers us to not only live in peace but to be peacemakers.  Jesus made us to be the salt of the earth, enhancing everyone we meet.  We must protect our salt’s purity by leaning in close to our Father.

Patience toward others is a burden that we must bear with love.  This is impossible unless we allow Christ to do it through us.  Only His life is sufficient to accomplish this with humility and gentleness.

Judging others seems like our favorite pastime.  It builds walls between hurting people and blinds us to our own need.  Christ’s life in us doesn’t judge others but always leaves an open path for relationship with them.

Acceptance is our deepest need and the most freeing thing we can experience.  When we come to Jesus Christ, He accepts us completely and makes us fully His.  Christs’ life empowers us to accept others in this same way.

Compassion is a rare thing in this world.  It’s Christ’s love in action, leaving the safe sidelines and entering life’s trenches to share another’s suffering.  And it’s doing as Father empowers us to bring restoration and wholeness.  

Christ’s life empowers us to have true concern for others, without regard for things that might separate us.  Partiality fuels division among Christ-ones and undermines our oneness in Him.

Christ’s life empowers us to submit to others, to align ourselves willingly and joyfully under them and to lift them up.  When we focus on submission and service, the roles that often divide us tend to disappear.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

In the midst of our pain, our enemy will offer us lies about God, ourselves, and our circumstances.  Frank and John discuss these in light of Jesus’ promise that knowing the truth shall make us free.

If I’m His child, why does He allow it?  He’s God, so why doesn’t He stop it?  We discuss these difficult questions, focusing on our Savior and how He was made perfect through His sufferings.

We deal with pain in lots of ways, some helpful and others not.  From a practical foundation, Frank and John discuss the need for understanding, empathy, and above all compassion.

Pain doesn’t have to be the last word in your life.  God can make a way through what you can’t seem to get over.  Join us as we explore Jesus’ mission to bind up the brokenhearted and to comfort all who mourn.

Bobby continues his story, discussing the pain public humiliation, the untimely death of a child, a staggering moral failure, and a world-class smear campaign that he describes as being crucified by Christians.  Hear about his road to spiritual wholeness, a restored marriage, and his decision to allow Jesus to enter his mess and make it his message.  Check out Bobby here: LegacyLeadershipandCoachi...

Leadership and professional coach Bobby Allen, Founder and CEO of Legacy Leadership & Coaching, lost his best friend, his dad, at a young age and quickly found two new ones … rejection and abandonment. Walk with Bobby through his efforts to find significance in music, sports, girls, and drugs until a caring uncle introduced him to Jesus.  Learn more about Bobby at: LegacyLeadershipandCoaching.com.

Teacher, host of the Jesus Unfiltered podcast, and upcoming author J.D. Zomer bills himself as the poster child for the terrible effects of religious teaching .  Listen as J.D. talks about his suicide attempt, his terrible divorce, and his searching that brought him finally to Jesus Christ as his life.  Check out J.D. and his ministry projects at:  ReligionFreeMinistry.com.

Meet Kyndal Jacoby, a wife and a mother of three boys who has a full-time, a part-time job, and … she's a daughter of the King who has come to know Christ as her life.  She discusses her rejection and insecurities following her parent's divorce, how these shaped her flesh, and how she came to meet Jesus.  Learn more about her at:  GraceLifeFellowship.org/ministries/grace-christian-counseling.