SMARTALK - hope for today

Galatians Chapter 1:1-9: A Spiritual Pandemic. How healthy is the church? Here is a spiritual health check where we deal with a virus of false teaching creating a medical emergency, called by a medical examination before being sent off for lab work. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music : Achaidh Cheide - Ce...

Romans Chapter 11:17-36 : Uniting Humanity. Here we see what keeps people apart in life, like arrogance, and the unique power of Christ to draw the most unlikely people together.   Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music : Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attributio...

Romans Chapter 11:1-16: The Journey to the New World. When God makes promises he keeps them. Maybe you doubt that at times. But in these verses, we see that one of his biggest promises was made to the Jewish people and that God is still keeping that promise. If God will reach his ancient people then we can be assurred of his power and willingness to reach those in our own lives who seem so far fro...

Romans Chapter 10:14-21 : Heaven's FedEx. Here we look at how God communicates with us today, by thinking of the package delivered, the delivery man, the address, and potential issues with the delivery and what is in the package.  Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music : Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin...

Romans Chapter 10:1-13 : Driving on Route 666. What direction is your life going? Where are you headed? We look at the fuel we put in our tank, the danger of pollutants, the destination we are heading towards, and what the ride will be like.  Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music : Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by...

Romans Chapter 9:14-33: Questioning God. Can God be trusted? Does he keep his word? Does God make the right choices every time? Here God speaks for himself.  Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music : Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://...

Romans Chapter 9:1-13. Can God be trusted to do what he says? many may question if he can but in this section of the letter to the Romans the Apostle Paul gives a definitive yes to that question.  Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music : Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Co...

Romans Chapter 8:35-39 : The Battlefield of Love. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music : Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Romans Chapter 8:31-34 : Who is Against You?  When you follow Christ Victory and trial all wrapped up in the same moment. We see here who is committed to us, who could condemn us and who could charge us.  Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music : Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Cre...

Romans Chapter 8:29-30 : Embraced by Love. We see the plan that God has to bless his children has been around for a very long time, from eternity!  Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music : Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativeco...

Romans Chapter 8:28 : Opening The Doors of Hope. This is one of the most famous and well-loved verses in the Bible. It acts like a compass and map to direct the steps of the pilgrim through all of life's ups and downs.   Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music : Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is...

Romans Chapter 8:26-27 Part 2: The Cry of The Heart. Praying is hard, but learn about the Holy Spirit and prayer. He is the greatest prayer partner you will ever find. We look at the spiritual vocabulary, resources, and power that God gives us in prayer.  Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music : Achaidh Cheid...

Romans Chapter 8:26-27 : You're Not in it Alone! Prayer is not easy and here we learn how the Holy Spirit helps us to overcome our weaknesses. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music : Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativeco...

Romans Chapter 8:18-25 : Tasting Hope. Without hope is it really possible to live? Here we see what hope looks like how it works.  Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music : Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/license...

Romans Chapter 8:14-17: Going Home. Deep inside each one of us is a longing for a place we can call home. Christianity sees that longing as so powerful that no place on earth can satisfy it. Instead, the Spirit of Christ stands ready to work within our hearts, adopting us into God's family. Then we know that we are home.   Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       h...

Romans Chapter 8:5-13 : Choices in Life. Which direction will our lives flow in and if you feel it's going in the wrong direction, how do you change track? It comes down to what mind set you have and who is in the driving seat.  Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music : Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin Ma...

Romans Chapter 8:1-4 : A spirit of condemnation can burden anyone. But here we see how Christ opens up to us a way of life with the living God. Religious practice cannot remove this condemnation from us, but what they fail to achieve Christ has done and offers us the fruit of that now.  Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope...

Romans Chapter 7:13-25 : When You Are Torn in Two. Have you ever felt torn in two between the desire to do something that you know isn't right and your conscience? Here we learn how to walk the road to peace and freedom through the power of Christ.  Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music : Achaidh Cheide...

Romans Chapter 7:1-12 : Two Weddings and a Funeral. How does a Christian relate to the Law of God? How do we escape a deep sense of condemnation in life? The two questions are joined together in this passage and help us to see the freedom Christ can bring into our lives. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music...

Romans Chapter 6:15-23: A Different Kind of Freedom. Everybody searches for experiences where they feel free, often in extreme sports. But what happens if you live in a wheelchair?  The freedom Jesus Christ can bring us is so deep that he can liberate us from our deepest addictions because he deals with their roots.  Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.c...

Romans Chapter 6:1-14 : The Dynamics of Spiritual Transformation. At the heart of Christianity is the idea of transformation. But this is not something that you can gain separate from God himself. We don't snatch a ticket to heaven from Christ's hand, we grasp hold of his hand, knowing Christ himself is salvation. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4...

Romans Chapter 5:12-21 : Raised to Reign. We might feel it's unfair that the Bible teaches us that all have sinned in Adam. But the flip side of this is that anyone can be raised up to a newness of life by being in Christ. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music : Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod...

Romans Chapter 5:6-11 - Love That Dies. Do you ever feel that you are walking on eggshells with some people? It is very easy to feel like that in your relationship with God but in these words we encounter the stupendous love of God that alone can fill the longing of the human heart for a lasting love.  Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk    ...

Romans Chapter 5:1-5: Walking Free Through Life. Trusting in Christ brings many benefits in this life as well as the next. One of which is the interplay between peace and suffering which can strangely work together to grow your character in ways that otherwise would be impossible.  Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tamp...

How to avoid making a car crash out of your faith! If anybody's faith could have suffered from a car crash it could have been Abraham as he was promised a child when he was in his old age. But in Romans Chapter 4:13-25 Paul walks us through his faith as an example of how we drive all the way home to God. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smart...