John 5:1-18: Encounters With Jesus: Who is the Healer? John reveals to us the touch of the one person who can heal humanity. Here, Jesus seeks out someone in the deepest need, and by the end of the story, his life is transformed. It reveals to us how the touch of the healer works in our lives today, freeing us from being stuck in a rut, revealing o…

John 4:43:54: Encounters With Jesus: Double Vision. Life is hard. Many things happen to us that really challenge our faith. How can we trust God through suffering? Jesus shows us through the encounter with the Royal Official that there is always more than meets the eye in our suffering. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.…

John 4:1-29: Encounters With Jesus: Reaching an Outsider. All people long for more in life. Jesus addresses that directly and personally in this moving story of his love, which reaches a social and religious outsider, overcoming all barriers to put her in contact with the source of life's deepest satisfaction. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church w…

John 3:1-21: Encounters With Jesus: Jesus challenges religion. Jesus' Encounter with Nicodemus reveals how the Kingdom of God confronts 'religion gone wrong'. Salvation can only be experienced through the sovereign work of God's Spirit and is for everyone who receives Jesus in true humility. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an e…

John 1:35-51: Encounters With Jesus: The Skeptic. When talking to someone skeptical about Christianity, see how Jesus handled such situations. He reaches out to people through friendships and reveals who he is by showing what he knows about us. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tamp…

John 1:19-34: Encounters With Jesus: Great Expectations. What is the logic behind the universe? John points us to Jesus, who claims he can bring meaning to our lives. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Crea…

Isaiah 39: Handling Success Successfully! When things go well, they can often be followed by a crash, often because of our pride. Here we see the dangers of mishandling the achievements of life, processing the fallout and how to handle these moments with humility. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartal…

Isaiah 38 Bad News From The Doctor! When bad news comes, Isaiah outlines how to handle it by calling us to rely upon God's power, not our own, to do so in prayer and then to process it creatively. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin Ma…

Isaiah 37:21-38 Pursuing Greatness. How can we pursue excellence in all things while not succumbing to the spiritual danger of pride? We need to learn that whatever we achieve in life is built upon the greatness of God and what he has done for us. Then we will see greatness in terms of what Jesus teaches us, which is true greatness. Contact Pastor …

Isaiah 37:1-20 Intimidation 101. God is more real than the most threatening of life's circumstances! Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/…

Isaiah 36: Trust Issues With God. We look at what it's like to trust God in the up and the downs of life, and when compelling voices are speaking into your life that undermine such trust. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is …

Isaiah 35: Highway to Heaven. There are days when life is like walking through a desert, but when God turns up, everything changes, from the direction we are walking in to finding the road to recovery to profound character transformation through the power of hope. Walk this road with the help of John Bunyan's famous book, The Pilgrim's Progress. Co…

Isaiah 34: Justice Will Have The Final Word. The longing for justice is something that is innate within each one of us. Here, we see what God's justice will mean for this world, something we will all have to face. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - C…

Isaiah 33 Stability in Unstable Times: the whole world is unstable. It always has been but we are feeling it acutely in our present times. So how do we live in unstable times? We aren’t the first and won’t be the last to ask that question. Isaiah’s people had to, and he gave them the answer in the middle of turbulent times in v.6, talking of God - …

Isaiah 32 The Parable of De-Churched Deborah. 40 Million Americans have stopped going to church over the last 20 years. We follow the story of Deborah, becoming a Christian, falling away from church and how she came back. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Ch…

Isaiah 31 Picking the Wrong Friends: Who has been the worst boyfriend or girlfriend you have taken home or could take home? The kind that would make your dad reach for the gun? You see parents are touchy about bad friends. The reason being, is the power of friendship to mold us. You can just have the wrong friends. Now put on the clothes of Isaiah’…

Isaiah 30:1-21 Listening to God does not come naturally to us, but when we do learn to listen, we discover the truth that Isaiah shares in verse 15, In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: …

Isaiah 29:15-24 Spiritual Renewal. What does spiritual renewal look like, even from a really low starting point? Here we see the reasons, the promise and the experience of renewal. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is license…

Isaiah 29:1-14 The Blind Leading The Blind: We see here God's people in maintenance mode, then called to renew their mission by getting to the heart of the issue which is the human heart. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is …

Isaiah 28 : The Foundation of Faith vs Addiction, Anger and Anxiety. It’s when the rubber hits the road that you learn what you trust. So this section of Isaiah is about who and what you put your trust in, especially when there is real pressure in life. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@…

Isaiah 27 : The Fruitful Life. When God is at work he protects us, he prunes us and he purifies us. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/l…

Isaiah 26: Feet on the Path. If you pick the right path to walk in life it can be marked by peace even in the face of tough decisions you may face. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attrib…

Isaiah 25 : You're Invited to the Party! Hope in the face of death. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.…

Isaiah 24 : The Second Coming. Are you a pessimist or an optimist about the future? There are two approaches to life that are like living in two totally different cities. The question is what are these cities like, and how do you move from the one facing destruction to the one that is eternally secure? Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website o…

Galatians 6:7-18 : Sowing For The Future. As we look ahead in life we see that our actions are like a farmer sowing seed. So make sure it's the right seed in the right field and sow with the right attitudes and the right tools. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Acha…

Galatians 5:25-6:5 : Walking in The Spirit. This phrase sounds very mystical, but Paul shows that it's intensely practical in its impact on our relationships. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Com…

Galatians 5:16-24 : Dr Jekyll or Mister Hide. Literature in many stories reflects the deep sense of being divided within our will. But the power of God's Spirit at work can bring us a profound wholeness. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by K…

Galatians 5:1-15 : Running Free. Where does genuine human freedom come from? How do we connect to it? How can we abuse such a freedom? Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 lic…

Galatians 4:21-31 : Losing My Religion. A message of hope following the devastation of Hurricane Milton and loss of power. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https:…

Galatians 4:8-20 : Don't Die Another Day! God gives his children many gifts and because they are so precious the Apostle Paul goes to great lengths in these words to encourage us not to lose them, whether it's the freedom Christ brings us or the Joy of his Spirit. Like James Bond, we face hostile forces that would rob these treasures and put us bac…

Galatians 3:26-4:7 : Defining Your Religion: Slavery or Sonship. In this amazing passage, we learn about the freedom, joy, and privileges of being sons and daughters of God through our faith in Christ. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kev…

Galatians Chapter 3:15-25: The Craftsman's Tools. When God works upon your life, he is like an artist. Here we see two particular tools he uses to craft our character into the likeness of Christ, God's Law and God's promises. We also think about the timing in God using these tools: why Christ came when he did and not earlier. Contact Pastor Smart f…

Galatians Chapter 3:1-14 : Lifting The Spell. The Bible is very clear about how easily anyone, including believers, can be fooled. Here are some ways to guard against it. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a …

Galatians Chapter 2:11-21 : Convictions and Confrontations. Through the lens of a parable about otters and beavers, we learn how to handle convictions and deal with confrontations in life. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is…

Galatians Chapter 2:1-10 : United We Stand! There are times when your reputation may be attacked. Do you defend yourself or let it go? Take a lesson from the Apostle Paul on making that call. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod…

Galatians Chapter 1:10-24 : Communication With Conviction. Conviction in life has to be like a tree, with good roots, branches and fruit. Only such conviction over the Good News of Jesus can keep a believer healthy. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide -…

Galatians Chapter 1:1-9: A Spiritual Pandemic. How healthy is the church? Here is a spiritual health check where we deal with a virus of false teaching creating a medical emergency, called by a medical examination before being sent off for lab work. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope…

Romans Chapter 11:17-36 : Uniting Humanity. Here we see what keeps people apart in life, like arrogance, and the unique power of Christ to draw the most unlikely people together. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed …

Romans Chapter 11:1-16: The Journey to the New World. When God makes promises he keeps them. Maybe you doubt that at times. But in these verses, we see that one of his biggest promises was made to the Jewish people and that God is still keeping that promise. If God will reach his ancient people then we can be assurred of his power and willingness t…

Romans Chapter 10:14-21 : Heaven's FedEx. Here we look at how God communicates with us today, by thinking of the package delivered, the delivery man, the address, and potential issues with the delivery and what is in the package. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Ac…

Romans Chapter 10:1-13 : Driving on Route 666. What direction is your life going? Where are you headed? We look at the fuel we put in our tank, the danger of pollutants, the destination we are heading towards, and what the ride will be like. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected]…

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. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commo…

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 Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin Mac…

Romans Chapter 8:35-39 : The Battlefield of Love. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/…

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 from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Ke…

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. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribu…

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. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheid…

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 in prayer. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk…

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. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution…

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.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.…