Daniel 11: Game of Thrones. Is the world out of control? Does history travel on a road to a clear destination, or are we on a loop, destined to keep repeating the same events like wars, plagues, and financial crises? This paints a big picture of God, that he is in control of history, even the worst possible events, and how God’s people are to live …

Daniel 10: The Touch of Strength. Sometimes it's in our greatest moments of weakness that God reaches out to us through his messengers and renews us with his touch. 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 Creati…

Daniel 9: Promises, Prayer, and God's Plans. God's promises call Daniel to repentance and hopeful intercession. God's answer points beyond exile to Christ, the true fulfillment of God's saving plan. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin …

Daniel 8: When God Dashes our Hopes. When Daniel's particular vision for the future is dashed, God reveals a far greater plan - ultimately fulfilled in Jesus Christ. 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 Creat…

Daniel 7. If you want to understand the world we live in, then you have to be realistic about the reality of evil and realistic about the reality of good. Daniel does that and gives us the basis for hope. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by …

Daniel 6: The Lion's King. This is one of the most outstanding narratives in the Bible. We see how to withstand spiritual attack, how to maintain character under fire, and how God's power delivers his people through suffering—not just from it. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa…

Daniel 5: God's Power and the Proud. Through Daniel's faithful testimony and His own sure Word, God confronts human pride and reveals that every act of judgement is also a gracious call to humble repentance before the one true King. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music:…

Daniel 4: A Kingdom Revealed Through Humbling. Through Nebuchadnezzar's humiliation and restoration, God reveals His sovereign rule - pointing us to Christ, the true King, who humbled Himself to bring sinners into His everlasting Kingdom. God continues to call all of us into the blessings of His Kingdom by humbling ourselves before Him. Contact Pas…

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Daniel 2. The Insecurities of Life. No matter how much power someone has in this life, to be human is to be insecure. Here we learn where our truest basis for security in this life and the next lies. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin…

Daniel 1. Thriving Under Pressure. Here, we meet four young believers who are under immense cultural pressure to conform to the surrounding culture, providing a powerful example of how followers of Christ can respond to such pressure. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Musi…

Pastor Sam Lago. Acts 4:23-31. Partnership in Prayer. As they move forward in mission, the early church faces fierce resistance - but instead of shrinking back, they pray. Grounded in Scripture, united in Christ, empowered by the Spirit, they show us how Jesus still partners with His people in prayer to advance His Kingdom. Contact Pastor Smart fro…

Pastor Sam Lago. Acts 1:1-8. Jesus and our Co-Mission. 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.…

1 Peter 2:1-12: Priesthood of all Believers. This is part of our Vision series, outlining core principles that should lie at the heart of the church. What is your place in the church? The answer to that depends upon how you understand your identity in Christ. Then you can see why it matters and the areas of your life that will be impacted by that. …

Psalm 19 : What Directs Your Life. If you ask what should be at the center of the life of a church, hopefully people would say Jesus! But how we know anything about Jesus is through God's Word. Psalm 19 celebrates the power of the Word to direct our lives. So we see that we need a whole Bible (Covenant Theology) for a whole Christ who transforms wh…

Pastor Sam Lago. Psalm 4: God's King and the Lost. In Psalm 4, David confronts the lost, calling them to turn from empty pursuits, acknowledge him as God's King, and trust the Lord for joy in His presence - foreshadowing Christ, who as King rules, as Prophet calls to repentance, as Priest intercedes for His people. Contact Pastor Smart from our Chu…

Pastor Sam Lago. Psalm 3: Strength in the Storm. In Psalm 3, David shows us how to find rest and courage when life falls apart - by remembering who God is, trusting what He does, and praying with bold faith in His promises. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk [email protected] Music: Achaidh …

Pastor Sam Lago. Psalm 2: Blessings for a Rebellious World. God confronts a rebellious World - not to destroy, but to bless. Through His Son, the true King, He invites all people to refuge, repentance, and joy-filled submission to His Kingdom. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa…

Pastor Sam Lago. Psalm 1: An Invitation into Blessedness. In Psalm1, God invites us into true blessedness - found not in following the ways of this world, but rooted in His Word, sustained by His Spirit, and fulfilled in Christ. This blessed life can endure testing, bear fruit, and overflow in blessing to others. Contact Pastor Smart from our Churc…

John 12-1-11: Encounters With Jesus: The Scent of Devotion. There are two examples of devotion in this passage that show us the two ways humanity can live. Which one defines your 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 lic…

John 11-17:45: Encounters With Jesus: Living in a City without Walls. Death is a reality we all face throughout life, and one day personally. Society struggles to find an answer to it, but here Jesus declares his authority even over the grave. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa…

Pastor Sam Lago. John 9: Encounters With Jesus: Responding to the Light. In healing a man born blind, Jesus reshapes our understanding of suffering, reveals the urgency of God's redemptive work, and shows that true sight - faith - often leads us into testing that grows us in discipleship. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an emai…

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…