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Welcome to the Words of Hope Podcast - Week Day devotions from the diverse voices of Cathedral of Hope. The Words of Hope Podcast and the Cathedral of Hope Daily Devotions are a ministry of Cathedral of Hope United Church of Christ. The mission of Cathedral of Hope is to reclaim Christianity as a faith of extravagant grace, radical inclusion and relentless compassion by being a people of hope --- proclaiming God’s inclusive love, removing barriers to faith and empowering all to grow in grace ...
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This is the podcast Putting on a Coat of Colours. This podcast is a Community Storytelling project of Coat of Colours, a council of Cathedral of Hope, United Church of Christ, in Dallas, TX. Our hope is that this podcast will make room for persons of color and their white allies, who are both gay and straight…•To tell of their joys and frustrations•To tell of their sense of belonging and their sense of exclusion•To celebrate our uniqueness to the larger community and celebrate our commonalit ...
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Wednesday, July 16, 2025 was written by Donald (Luke) Day and is narrated by Adam Carter. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Corrie Ten Boom: "Worry is like a rocking chair, it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere." Support the show
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Tuesday, July 15, 2025 was written by Weber Baker and is narrated by Jay Williams. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from 1 John 3:11-17 For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we are to love one another; not as Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And for what …
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Monday, July 14, 2025 was written by Dan Peeler and is narrated by Judy Anderson. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from James 2.5-6 Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the realm he promised those who love him? …
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Friday, July 11, 2025 was written by Thomas Riggs and is narrated by Adam Carter. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Acts 7:10 But God was with Joseph and rescued him from all his troubles. He gave Joseph wisdom and enabled him to gain the goodwill of Pharaoh king of Egypt. So, Pharaoh made him ruler over …
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Thursday, July 10, 2025 was written by Dr. Pat Saxon and is narrated by Beth Wilson. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Marie Barnet: “This is the air I breathe. This is the air I breathe, Your holy presence, living in me” Support the show
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Wednesday, July 09, 2025 was written by Hardy Haberman and is narrated by Jay Williams. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from 2 Kings 61-7 Now the company of prophets said to Elisha, “As you see, the place where we live under your charge is too small for us. Let us go to the Jordan, and let us collect logs th…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Tuesday, July 08, 2025 was written by Kris Baker and is narrated by Adam Carter. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Proverbs 16:11 Honest scales and balances are the Lord's; all the weights in the bag are God’s work. Support the show
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Monday, July 07, 2025 was written by Jan Nunn and is narrated by Angela Whorton. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Proverbs 12:17: When you tell the truth, justice is done, but lies lead to injustice. Thoughtless words can wound as deeply as any sword, but wisely spoken words can heal. Support the show…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Friday, July 04, 2025 was written by Donald (Luke) Day and is narrated by Dana Goodenow. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Psalm 139:10-11 "If I say, surely darkness shall cover me, and the light (of good old times) around me become dark night; even then your divine hand shall lead me, and your good right…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Thursday, July 03, 2025 was written by Charlie C. Rose and is narrated by Larry Carter. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Luke 8.7 For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light. Support the show…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Wednesday, July 02, 2025 was written by Dan Peeler and is narrated by Jay Williams. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Micah 4:3 God will judge between many peoples and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nat…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Tuesday, July 01, 2025 was written by Carole Anne Sarah and is narrated by Angela Whorton. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Romans 8.26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit intercedes for us through wordless groans. Support the sho…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Monday, June 30, 2025 was written by Jonathon McClellan and is narrated by Gordon Markley. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born, I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations. Support the show…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Friday, June 27, 2025 was written by Weber Baker and is narrated by Beth Wilson. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Genesis 1:28-31 God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air a…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Thursday, June 26, 2025 was written by Dr. Pat Saxon and is narrated by Judithann Anderson. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Robin Wall Kimmerer: In indigenous ways of thinking, we don’t call these natural resources. We call them relatives. They are beings, people, which share their gifts with each other…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Wednesday, June 25, 2025 was written by Donald (Luke) Day and is narrated by Judithann Anderson. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from John 11.32-35 When Mary [of Bethany] reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Tuesday, June 24, 2025 was written by Kris Baker and is narrated by Jay Williams. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Proverbs 8:1-4: Does not wisdom call out? Does not understanding raise her voice? At the highest point along the way, where the paths meet, she takes her stand; beside the gate leading into …
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Monday, June 23, 2025 was written by Thomas Riggs and is narrated by Gordon Markley. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from I Corinthians 1:27-29 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Friday, June 20, 2025 was written by Donna Jackson and is narrated by Dana Goodenow. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Habakkuk 1: 1-3 How long oh Lord, must I cry out for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you“VIOLENCE” but you do not save? Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerat…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Thursday, June 19, 2025 was written by Jonathon McClellan and is narrated by Beth Wilson. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Proverbs 26:20 NIV Without wood a fire goes out. Support the show
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Wednesday, June 18, 2025 was written by Hardy Haberman and is narrated by Beth Wilson. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Daniel 1: 11-16 Daniel then said to the guard whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, “Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Tuesday, June 17, 2025 was written by Weber Baker and is narrated by Jay Williams. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Proverbs 8:4-21 (NRSV) To you, O people, I call, and my cry is to all who live. O simple ones, learn prudence; acquire intelligence, you who lack it. Hear, for I will speak noble things, an…
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Send us a text the devotion for today, Monday, June 16, 2025 was written by Donald (Luke) Day and is narrated by Angela Whorton. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Proverbs 13.10 Where there is strife, there is pride, but wisdom is found in those who take advice. James 3.17 But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Friday, June 13, 2025 was written by Rev. Dr. Gary Kindley and is narrated by Michael Benham. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Ephesians 4:1-3 (The Message): In light of all this, here’s what I want you to do. While I’m locked up here, a prisoner for the Master, I want you to get out there and walk—bette…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Thursday, June 12, 2025 was written by Dr. Pat Saxon and is narrated by Gordon Markley. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Matthew 19:13-14 Then people brought little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked them. Jesus said, “Let the little children…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Wednesday, June 11, 2025 was written by Dan Peeler and is narrated by Angela Whorton. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Mark 6.47-51 Later that night, the boat was in the middle of the lake, and Jesus was alone on land. He saw the disciples straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. Shortly…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Tuesday, June 10, 2025 was written by Kris Baker and is narrated by Larry Carter. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from 1 Corinthians 2:12-13 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in word…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Monday, June 09, 2025 was written by Jan Nunn and is narrated by Judithann Anderson. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Psalm 48:9-10 Within your temple, O God, we meditate on your unfailing love. Like your name, O God, your praise reaches to the ends of the earth; your right hand is filled with righteousn…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Friday, June 06, 2025 was written by Thomas Riggs and is narrated by Michael Benham. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Isaiah 44:4 For I will pour out water to quench your thirst and to irrigate your parched fields. Support the show
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Thursday, June 05, 2025 was written by Donald (Luke) Day and is narrated by Larry Carter. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Romans 6:5, 9-11 For if we have been united with him (Christ Jesus) in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his... We know that Christ, being…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Wednesday, June 04, 2025 was written by Hardy Haberman and is narrated by Gordon Markley. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Yechezkel 3:21 in the Orthodox Jewish Bible “Nevertheless if thou warn the tzaddik, that the tzaddik sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also th…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Tuesday, June 03, 2025 was written by Charlie C. Rose and is narrated by Jay Williams. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Joshua 2.1-2 Then Joshua, son of Nun, secretly sent two spies to Jericho. “Go, look over the land,” he said. So, they went and entered the house of a harlot named Rahab and stayed there…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Monday, June 02, 2025 was written by Jonathon McClellan and is narrated by Adam Carter. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Proverbs 26:20: Without wood a fire goes out. Support the show
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Friday, May 30, 2025 was written by Donald (Luke) Day and is narrated by Michael Benham. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Luke 23:39-43 One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!” But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he s…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Thursday, May 29, 2025 was written by Kris Baker and is narrated by Beth Wilson. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from John 13:31-35 At the last supper, when Judas had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. If God has been glorified in him, God will al…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Wednesday, May 28, 2025 was written by Charlie C. Rose and is narrated by Gordon Markley. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from 1 Corinthians 1.30 By God’s doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption. Support the show…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Tuesday, May 27, 2025 was written by Weber Baker and is narrated by Dana Goodenow. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Romans 8.26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit intercedes for us through wordless groans. Support the show…
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Send us a text ¸The devotion for today, Monday, May 26, 2025 was written by Jonathon McClellan and is narrated by Angela Whorton. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Matthew 17:20 NIV He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to the…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Friday, May 23, 2025 was written by Dan Peeler and is narrated by Michael Benham. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from John 7. 1-9 Jesus was staying in Galilee. He did not wish to go to Judea because the Jewish leaders were looking for an opportunity to kill him. Now, the Jewish festival of Booths was near. …
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Thursday, May 22, 2025 was written by Dr. Pat Saxon and is narrated by Judithann Anderson. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Harvey Milk: “If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet shatter every closet door.” Support the show
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Wednesday, May 21, 2025 was written and narrated by Hardy Haberman. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Leviticus 19:13-14 “You shall not defraud your neighbor; you shall not steal; and you shall not keep for yourself the wages of a laborer until morning. You shall not revile the deaf or put a stumbling blo…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Tuesday, May 20, 2025 was written by Carole Anne Sarah and is narrated by Beth Wilson. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Ephesians 4: 21-24 (NLT) Since you have heard about Jesus and have learned the truth that comes from him, throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupte…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Monday, May 19, 2025 was written by Thomas Riggs and is narrated by Larry Carter. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Acts 11:20-21 Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus. The Lord’s hand was with …
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Thursday, May 15, 2025 was written by Jonathon McClellan and is narrated by Adam Carter. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Psalm 107. 1-3 Give thanks to the Lord, for God is good; God’s love endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord tell their story— those redeemed from the hand of the foe, those gath…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Wednesday, May 14, 2025 was written by Charlie C. Rose and is narrated by Dana Goodenow. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Isaiah 41:10: So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Support the…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Tuesday, May 13, 2025 was written by Kris Baker and is narrated by Angela Whorton. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Acts 9:32-35 As Peter traveled about the country, he went to visit the Lord’s people who lived in Lydda. There he found a man named Aeneas, who was paralyzed and had been bedridden for eigh…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Monday, May 12, 2025 was written by Donald (Luke) Day and is narrated by Larry Carter. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Genesis 40:8 "Do not dream interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me." Support the show
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Friday, May 09, 2025 was written by Rev. Dr. Gary Kindley and is narrated by Jay Williams. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Psalm 23:1 The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want. Support the show
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Thursday, May 08, 2025 was written by Dr. Pat Saxon and is narrated by Larry Carter. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Lisa Appelo: “When life implodes in loss, it takes with it the future we thought was ours. The future can feel like a bleak, black hole.” Support the show…
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Send us a text The devotion for today, Wednesday, May 07, 2025 was written by Hardy Haberman and is narrated by Angela Whorton. Today’s Words of Inspiration come from Luke 5:9-11 For he and all who were with him were astounded at the catch of fish that they had taken, and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. T…
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