SMARTALK - hope for today
Messages of hope from Pastor Chris Smart of Hope Church Presbyterian, Tampa, Florida.
Episodes
115 episodes since 2022
Romans Chapter 10:1-13 : Driving on Route 666
Romans Chapter 10:1-13 : Driving on Route 666.Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4...
September 16, 2024
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Romans Chapter 9:14-33 : Questioning God
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. ...
September 08, 2024
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Romans Chapter 9:1-13 : Family Intervention
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 Churc...
September 01, 2024
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36:29
Romans Chapter 8:35-39 : The Battlefield of Love
Romans Chapter 8:35-39 : The Battlefield of Love.Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@ho...
August 25, 2024
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Romans Chapter 8:31-34 : Who is Against You?
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 ...
August 18, 2024
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Romans Chapter 8:29-30 : Embraced by Love
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. &nbs...
August 11, 2024
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Romans Chapter 8:28 : Opening The Doors of Hope
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. Contac...
August 04, 2024
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Romans Chapter 8:26-27 Part 2: The Cry of The Heart.
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 ...
July 28, 2024
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Romans Chapter 8:26-27 Part 1 : You're Not in it Alone!
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. hope4t...
July 21, 2024
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Romans Chapter 8:18-25 : Tasting Hope
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.co...
July 16, 2024
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Romans Chapter 8:14-17 : Going Home
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 wo...
July 07, 2024
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Romans Chapter 8:5-13 : Choices in Life
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. Co...
June 30, 2024
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Romans Chapter 8:1-4 : No Condemnation
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...
June 11, 2024
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Romans Chapter 7:13-25 : When You Are Torn in Two
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 Chr...
June 07, 2024
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Romans Chapter 7:1-12 : Two Weddings and a Funeral
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 Chris...
June 06, 2024
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Romans Chapter 6:15-23 : A Different Kind of Freedom
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 ...
May 28, 2024
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Romans Chapter 6:1-14 : The Dynamics of Spiritual Transformation
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'...
May 24, 2024
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Romans Chapter 5:12-21 : Raised to Reign
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 Pasto...
May 18, 2024
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Romans Chapter 5:6-11: Love That Dies
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 c...
May 08, 2024
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Romans Chapter 5:1-5: Walking Free Through Life
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 way...
May 01, 2024
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Romans Chapter 4:13-25: How to avoid making a car crash out of your faith!
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 h...
April 26, 2024
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Romans 4: 9-12: The Parable of The Orchard
The Parable of The Orchard. By looking at Romans Chapter 4:9-12 through the lens of a parable about an orchard we see who is in and who is out of God's kingdom. The view may shock religious people! Contact Pastor Smart from ...
April 19, 2024
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Romans Chapter 3:27-31: Boasting
Boasting. Romans Chapter 3:27-31. Worship is like a well of water, it should refresh you. But it can be poisoned by boasting. If we think we have contributed even a tiny amount to our salvation we can’t put God on the highest level of gratitude...
April 13, 2024
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Romans Chapter 3:9-20: What Lies Beneath
What Lies Beneath the surface of the people we think we know? Movies have been made to investigate that idea. In Romans Chapter 3:9-20 paints the darkest colors of humanity which Wester Civilisation for more than a thousand years gave str...
April 06, 2024
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