Rick Hughes Ministries

The FLOT Line Show

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Welcome to The FLOT Line, with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes, you will be inspired, motivated, and educated, but never manipulated. FLOT is an acronym for Forward Line of Troops. The show teaches principles from the Bible and focuses on God’s 10 unique problem-solving devices. If you choose to learn and apply them, they will act as a main line of resistance in your soul, a FLOT line, preventing the outside sources of adversity from becoming the inside pressure of stress in your soul. The intent is to give you information to help you identify the plan of God for your life.

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Rick Hughes Ministries

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Religion

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Jul 7, 2026

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Episodes

Happy or Miserable (2023) 02.01.2026

Your spiritual life, not your physical life, is the key to your success and happiness. “For bodily discipline is only of little profit but godliness is profitable for all things since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come” (1 Tim 4:8). The secret to happiness is not people or circumstances. “Happy are those who hear the Word of God and keep it” (Luke 11:28). Victory i...

Carry the Colors (2023) 01.01.2026

Carrying the colors means representing the Lord Jesus Christ to those in your sphere of influence. The gospel is the most powerful thing in the world. “For I am not ashamed of the gospel for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes” (Rom 1:16). Are you prepared to carry the colors for Him? “Not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord” (Rom 12:11). God...

Overcoming Circumstances (2023) 31.12.2025

Good or bad circumstances do not move a mature believer because his focus stays the same. His faith is not shaken. Learning God’s Word is how you grow your faith and develop a relaxed mental attitude. “So faith comes from hearing and hearing by the Word of God” (Rom 10:17). Regardless of your circumstances, you can be content if you grow spiritually and depend on the Lord who strengthens you. “For...

Spiritual Apathy (2023) 29.12.2025

Scripture doesn’t authorize you to slack off and coast into heaven. “Since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles [maybe self-pity] and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us” (Heb 12:1). Your spiritual life is an intentional lifestyle. It requires fidelity. Here is a warning. “But I have...

Cosmic Confluence (2023) 28.12.2025

This great nation, America, is in the middle of a confluence of satanic propaganda and human viewpoint thinking that is destroying the lives of many. This confluence spawns the cosmic vortex. Social media influencers recruit every day and lure many into this vortex. “Each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust” (Ja 1:14). The cosmic confluence doesn’t want the truth of...

Why We Suffer (2023) 27.12.2025

Your attitude of confidence and trust in God’s plan during times of suffering is a witness to those who observe you. What suffering God does not remove, He intends for us to bear by applying the Word of God. God will never give you more than you can handle. Suffering never leaves a Christian as it found him. Suffering can be a warning you are in prolonged carnality. “Grievous punishment is for him...

Guard Your Thoughts (2023) 26.12.2025

You must guard your thoughts by being occupied with Christ (problem-solving device number 10). “We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ” (2 Cor 10:5). Satan is the master deceiver, and he will try to capture your thoughts through the lures of the world. “I am afraid that as the se...

Christmas (2011) 25.12.2025

The birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Messiah, is what we celebrate on Christmas Day. This is the single most critical moment in human history. God loves you so much He sent His uniquely born Son to pay for your sin. “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Cor 2:21). Jesus Christ came to this world and was born to die to solv...

The Night Before Christmas (2012) 24.12.2025

Christmas is when we celebrate the most incredible gift that mankind has ever known—the gift of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world. The truth is Jesus Christ is the anointed Son of God. “For the grace of God has appeared bringing salvation to all people” (Titus 2:11). A wish for a Merry Christmas should be a wish for all to know the joy of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. “Seek ye the L...

Godliness (2023) 22.12.2025

Godliness is not sounding spiritual or having a sweet personality. Godliness has everything to do with what you think. “Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). Are you God’s child? Have you been saved? Are you obedient to Scripture by staying filed with the Holy Spirit and growing in grace? Have you developed a consistent daily routine of studying God’s Word ev...

The Root of Bitterness (2023) 21.12.2025

Bitterness is a harsh, hostile attitude that results from arrogant reactions and sometimes becomes a source of habitual carnality in your life. Bitterness pollutes your thinking. You can't glorify God with bitterness in your soul’s mentality. “See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it, many be defiled” (Heb 12:5). “Do a...

Pass This Test (2023) 20.12.2025

Our strength in times of testing is always the Word of God. God allows the pressures of people and system testing so you will grow and become spiritually strong. Passing people testing is possible if you use God’s problem-solving devices of personal love for God and impersonal love for others. You must have this virtue love to successfully live the Christian life. Count on it, people will be a tes...

Your Soul, Part 3 (2023) 19.12.2025

God’s Word will cut into your soul and show you things you’ve never seen before. “The Word of God is alive and powerful” (Heb 4:12). You are warned to guard your thinking and the mentality of your soul. “Watch over your heart [soul] with all diligence, for from it flows the springs of life” (Prov 4:23). Satan is out to capture our minds, especially the minds of our kids. What’s your priority in li...

Your Soul, Part 2 (2023) 18.12.2025

You need to arm your soul with God’s Word. “Put on the full armor of God so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil” (Eph 6:11). You must prepare the souls of your children and grandchildren with God’s Word. Divine viewpoint acts as brakes when they are tempted to go wide open down the hill with their lost friends. If the 10 problem-solving devices aren’t in the mental...

Your Soul, Part 1 (2023) 17.12.2025

Your soul’s mentality is the real you, not your body. “For as he thinks, so he is” (Prov 23:7). Your volition determines your soul’s worth and destiny. “Obtaining as the outcome of your faith [volition] the salvation of your souls” (1 Pet 1:9). The soul has volition (I will), self-consciousness (I am), mentality (I think) and conscience (I ought). Without the Word of God in your soul acting as a m...

Don't Sell Out (2023) 15.12.2025

Many Christians say or do things that have no basis and no impact. Don't sell out for cheap emotional experiences and call it the spiritual life. Our pulpits are not teaching the Word of God. Churches are becoming Christian recreation centers. This is what allows the F.O.G. to settle across America (Failure of spiritual leadership. Open rebellion in the streets. God’s Word rejected). The spiritual...

Value Your FLOT Line, Part 2 (2023) 14.12.2025

Value developing a FLOT line in your soul as your number one priority. Using God’s 10 problem-solving devices is exactly how to live the Christian way of life. “Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect” (Rom 12:2). God left you here for a reason and that is to grow...

Value Your FLOT Line, Part 1 (2023) 13.12.2025

The strength of your spiritual life depends on using God's 10 problem-solving devices as the FLOT line in your soul. If you don’t understand Rebound (1 John 1:9) and the Filling of the Holy Spirit, you are not living the Christian life. Religious rituals are meaningless unless you are filled with the Holy Spirit. “For we walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Cor 5:7). Faith is trust in God’s provisions....

Unrealistic Self-Image (2023) 12.12.2025

You can’t operate in the Christian life with an unrealistic self-image. An unrealistic self-image leads to unrealistic expectations and creates a role model out of self. A person with an unrealistic self-image can’t look into the mirror of God’s Word and see themselves as they really are because they don’t have objectivity. They are totally subjective and focused on themselves. Apart from Satan, a...

Client Nation Crisis (2023) 11.12.2025

We are witnessing the loss of America’s client nation status and impending severe divine discipline. We have lost our focus on God and our spiritual vigor. “From whom much is given, much will be required” (Luke 12:48). America is under liability to the Supreme Court of Heaven. The future of our nation depends on whether enough Christians fulfill the unique spiritual life God designed for us. As th...

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ (2023) 10.12.2025

The Lord Jesus Christ walked out of the tomb alive. This guarantees we as Christians will have life after death. We will have a resurrection body just like Christ if we have accepted Him as our Savior. This is the single most significant decision to make in life. “So it is written that the Christ would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day and that repentance for forgiveness of sin would...

The Trials of Jesus Christ (2023) 08.12.2025

Jesus Christ was subjected to six illegal trials, beaten beyond recognition, found not guilty by Pilate, yet sentenced and crucified. The next time you receive unjust treatment or think you’ve been disrespected, recall the horrific ordeal of your Savior, and what He endured to provide your means of salvation. Perspective. “For this I have been born, and for this I have come into this world, to tes...

The Zugos (2023) 07.12.2025

You have to decide whether you want to live a Christlike life or live the life the world offers. You’re being recruited by the world 24/7 through social media. Jesus Christ’s spiritual life during His earthly ministry is the template He left for us to live the Christlike life. “For you have been called for this purpose because Jesus Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow...

Anger (2023) 06.12.2025

Anger and bitterness are consuming and will rot the mentality of your soul. The sin of anger often motivates chain sinning. A divine viewpoint allows you to handle anger using principles taught in God’s Word. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous, so that He will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9) You must learn to turn things over to the Sup...

God's Treasure (2023) 05.12.2025

Occupation with Christ is the greatest treasure a Christian can possess. It comes gradually through learning and applying God’s Word in your life. The knowledge of God fuels your faith and the development of a FLOT line in your soul so you can represent Jesus Christ to others. “But we have this treasure in our earthly bodies so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from...

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