Real Hope Community's Podcast

Trapping the Trapper, straight without audience participation 24.10.2022 25:36 ↓

We love it when Jesus turns the tables. Well, sometimes. This week's story is a familiar one--and we could go right past it and think we know the moral. But do we? Is "who is my neighbor" really the question we need to be asking?

The Last Word 24.07.2022 24:27 ↓

"Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are." Hard to imagine, right? When we're in the middle of suffering, it's hard to believe it will feel light someday. (And that's not a great thing to say to people in pain, btw.) Yet there...

Big Feelings 10.07.2022 35:05 ↓

Fred Rogers said, "If we can explain that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service for mental health." He had that right. Grief and mourning are normal. Emotions (like anger) are normal. We’re reacting to something we know is wrong.  Pretending it’s all joy, proof texting our way to fake gratitude, pushing aside our real feelings to manufacture “pretty”...

What Do We Believe about Death? Part 1 27.06.2022 44:09 ↓

What kind of statements have you heard when someone dies?  God needed another angel? He's in a better place? Everything happens for a reason? If these are true, what can a person offer someone in grief, or a nation in grief after a horrific event? Very little. What do we really believe about death, and how does Christian belief offer better answers?