Spirit-Led Hope

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! Season 2 of Spirit-Led Hope looks at the origin story of our universe and life from both the naturalistic and Christian perspective. In this episode, Glenn talks about some of the nuances in sharing personal beliefs about Creation. He stresses that the most useful conversations are born out of relationships. This episode has a transcript. If your podcas...

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! Season 2 of Spirit-Led Hope looks at the origin story of our universe and life from both the naturalistic and Christian perspective. One area of debate between the two perspectives is that Genesis describes Creation as taking place in six days. On the other hand, scientific naturalism proposes that the universe began billions of years ago. In this episo...

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! Season 2 of Spirit-Led Hope looks at the origin story of our universe and life from both the naturalistic and Christian perspective. In this episode, Glenn completes the comparison of the Genesis and naturalistic accounts. This episode draws heavily on the prior episodes. This is a sequential teaching. If you have not yet listened to the prior episodes,...

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! Season 2 of Spirit-Led Hope looks at the origin story of our universe and life from both the naturalistic and Christian perspective. In this episode, Glenn continues the comparison of the Genesis and naturalistic accounts. This episode draws heavily on the prior episodes. This is a sequential teaching. If you have not yet listened to the prior episodes,...

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! Season 2 of Spirit-Led Hope looks at the origin story of our universe and life from both the naturalistic and Christian perspective. In this episode, Glenn continues the comparison of the Genesis and naturalistic accounts. This episode draws heavily on the prior episodes. This is a sequential teaching. If you have not yet listened to the prior episodes,...

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! Season 2 of Spirit-Led Hope looks at the origin story of our universe and life from both the naturalistic and Christian perspective. In this episode, Glenn continues the comparison of the Genesis and naturalistic accounts. This episode draws heavily on the prior episodes. This is a sequential teaching. If you have not yet listened to the prior episodes,...

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! Season 2 of Spirit-Led Hope looks at the origin story of our universe and life from both the naturalistic and Christian perspective. In this episode, Glenn begins the comparison of the Genesis and naturalistic accounts. This episode draws heavily on the prior episodes. This is a sequential teaching. If you have not yet listened to the prior episodes, pl...

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! Season 2 of Spirit-Led Hope looks at the origin story of our universe and life from both the naturalistic and Christian perspective. In this episode, Glenn continues with the Biblical perspective for the beginning and development of life on Earth.  He puts the book of Genesis in context and reads Genesis Chapter 1 in its entirety. If you have never hear...

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! Season 2 of Spirit-Led Hope looks at the origin story of our universe and life from both the naturalistic and Christian perspective. In this episode, Glenn continues with the naturalistic perspective for the beginning and development of life on Earth.  Because this is a high-level view, only basic scientific principles are referenced. This episode has a...

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! Season 2 of Spirit-Led Hope looks at the origin story of our universe and life from both the naturalistic and Christian perspective. In this episode, Glenn continues with the naturalistic perspective of how the Earth was formed.  Because this is a high-level view, only basic scientific principles are referenced. This episode has a transcript. If your po...

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! Season 2 of Spirit-Led Hope looks at the origin story of our universe and life. In this episode, Glenn continues with the naturalistic perspective of how the universe began. This episode looks at  the Big Bang theory from a high-level view. Glenn points out the basics and the predictive power of science. He also addresses some of the outstanding issues...

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! Season 2 of Spirit-Led Hope looks at the origin story of our universe and life. In this episode, Glenn begins explaining how the universe started from the naturalistic perspective. This episode looks at  the foundational work done by Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, and Einstein. Based on the work by these giants of science, a Belgian Catholic priest named Geo...

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! Episode 3 continues a comparison of the Christian and naturalistic worldviews of the Creation account. In  this Episode, Glenn looks at three big questions that people asks themselves. 1.  How did the Universe begin? 2.  How did life begin? 3.  What is my purpose and value in life? Glenn points out that the Christian worldview explains why we ask oursel...

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! In Season 2, Spirit-Led Hope looks at the origin story of our universe and life through the worldviews of naturalism and Christianity. In this episode, Glenn describes these two worldviews and points out that the indwelling Holy Spirit affects how Christians see the world and interpret data. In this episode, Glenn mentions two books that give in-depth a...

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! This episode kicks off Season 2 of Spirit-Led Hope. In this episode, Glenn gives a quick recap of Season 1 and introduces the topic for Season 2. In the following episodes, Spirit-Led Hope will look at the tension many Christians experience when they compare the Biblical account of Creation to the popular secular viewpoint for the origins of the univers...

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! This is the final episode of Season 1! In this episode, Glenn points out that following the Holy Spirit leads to a life of adventure. He explains that we choose our level of adventure by the way we answer these questions: How much do I pursue intimacy with Jesus? How humbly to I pursue changes to my character? How much do I desire spiritual gifts? Glenn...

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! With Season 1 winding down, Glenn covers two important principles in the Christian faith:  to trust and obey. Glenn shares some of his failures and points out how God uses our failures in a way that helps us increase in our trust and obedience. If you  worry that you have failed God, this episode is for you. This episode has a transcript. If your podcas...

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! As Season 1 winds down,  this episode looks at the ninth and final gift of the Spirit discussed...the working of miracles. Glenn defines a miracle and also ponders on the frequency of miracles. Also discussed, are the emotions we can feel when the miracle we long for does not occur. This episode has a transcript. If your podcast app does not support tra...

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! According to the Bible, the spiritual world includes not only God, but angels and demons. In this episode, Glenn discusses the discomfort we may have when talking about this world view. The episode then examines a gift of the Holy Spirit which gives us the ability to distinguish the spiritual forces at play. This episode includes a transcript. If you po...

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! The gift of faith is one of the nine gifts of the Spirit listed in 1 Corinthians 12. But what is this type of faith? In this episode, Glenn discusses the gift of faith and looks at the bigger picture of how God wants our faith to grow. If you struggle with your faith in God, be encouraged that God will help your faith increase. This episode also has a t...

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! This episode continues with a systematic teaching on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Here, Glenn discusses the gifts of healing and gives an interesting example from his own life.  With the example, we see what happens when imperfect people work with a perfect God. This episode includes a transcript. If your podcast app does not support transcripts, you m...

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! This is a special episode. Monica Erichsen joins her husband Glenn for a candid talk about her journey with cancer. Monica is a mother of three, a homemaker, an artist, a Jeopardy! champion, a licensed therapist, and has been living with Stage 4 cancer for over 5 years. Monica shares some of her pain, but also the hope that there can be beauty and peace...

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! In this episode, we look at one of the biggest questions asked of Christianity...If God is love and all-powerful, why do bad things happen? Or similarly, why is there evil in the world? While that is a question way beyond a 20-minuite podcast, Glenn gives  a glimpse into how bad things began, and what God has already done about it. This episode has a tr...

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! This episode continues a discussion on gifts of the Spirit with an emphasis on the gift of wisdom. Glenn looks at the bigger picture of wisdom and God's willingness to share his wisdom with all. This is an encouraging episode for all who desire wisdom. With respect to the gift of wisdom, Glenn discusses how we hear a word of wisdom, identify it as...

Send a text or voicemail to Spirit-Led Hope! This episode covers the spiritual gift called the message, or word, of knowledge. Glenn explains what the gift is and talks about how the gift is used in faith and love. Glenn also gives two examples from his own life to show practically how the gift may be used. If you have ever felt that you were unable to function in a word of knowledge, this episode...