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Unquenchable Hope

Luanne Botta & Mary Ann Crum

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Wonder how you can hang onto hope in a world that seems bent on stealing it? Eavesdrop on Christian writers and speakers Luanne Botta and Mary Ann Crum as they discuss all kinds of relevant topics and how God, His Word (the Bible) and His grace can give us the hope we need to get us through whatever we face. This isn’t your typical Bible teaching or preaching, but real conversation, sprinkled with humor, honesty and spontaneity, by two women who’ve walked with God and used His Word to encour ...
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Send us a Text Message. We'll be back with new episodes soon, but until then, enjoy (or re-enjoy) this episode featuring teacher, speaker and mom Heather Campbell, who lost her teenage son in a car accident. In this last of a three-part series, Heather, Luanne and Mary Ann talk about how true God's Word is, even in the hardest trials of life, and t…
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Send us a Text Message. While Mary Ann and Luanne take a short break, this week they're re-posting the second part of their three-part series on grief. In our hardest, most emotionally painful moments and seasons, God is with us, speaking, comforting, manifesting His character and Word, and bringing life from death. These are the truths that guest …
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Send us a Text Message. As Mary Ann packs moving boxes and Luanne travels to visit family, this week they rewind and reshare one of the most popular episodes of "Unquenchable Hope." In this episode, the ladies talk with Heather Campbell, a teacher and speaker who lost her oldest son in a car accident. Heather shares how even in the midst of unimagi…
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Send us a Text Message. Luanne continues sharing her story of a 10-year period of her life when she struggled to forgive someone who had hurt her. The ladies discuss what is perhaps the biggest key to finding the will and power to forgive others: realizing how much we’ve been forgiven by God. Luanne’s newest book, “Spiritual Warfare and the Armor o…
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Send us a Text Message. Luanne and Mary Ann continue talking about being offended, which is an epidemic in our culture. As Luanne explains, being offended is like bait that the devil uses to entrap us in anger, bitterness, hatred, and ultimately, if we don’t choose to forgive, a hardened heart. Luanne’s newest book, “Spiritual Warfare and the Armor…
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Send us a Text Message. Remember that old commercial with the Budweiser Frogs where one of them tells the other, “Let it go, Louie … let it go”? Well, most of the time, that’s pretty good advice. As Mary Ann and Luanne discuss in this episode, if we’re going to shine like stars in this dark world, we need to respond the right way if someone offends…
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Send us a Text Message. Luanne and Mary Ann are joined again by Kim Harrell, their pastor's wife and friend, for part two of their conversation. In this episode, Kim talks about the importance of dealing with grief and letting God heal our wounds. Luanne also forgets Mary Ann’s husband’s name as he happens to walk by during this recording. And you’…
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Send us a Text Message. Luanne and Mary Ann are joined in this episode by Kim Harrell, their pastor's wife and friend, who shares how she and her husband lost all their possessions in a fire. Even so, Kim says the goodness they experienced outweighed all the bad. Luanne’s newest book, “Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God,” is available for order…
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Send us a Text Message. God has called each of us and given us gifts He wants to use, but when we try to hijack those callings and gifts, it doesn't work. But if we take our hands off, surrender to God, trust Him and refuse to quit, the rewards at the finish line are wonderful beyond our imagination. Luanne’s newest book, “Spiritual Warfare and the…
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Send us a Text Message. Luanne shares about a recent “wilderness” experience when frustration and disappointment caused her to quit on her dreams of ministry. She and Mary Ann talk about the difference between quitting things God actually wants us to do and surrendering to Him the details of when and how those doors will open. Luanne’s newest book,…
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Send us a Text Message. Shhhhh … listen. Do you hear the groaning? Yes, indeed, according to the Bible, ALL of creation is groaning to be released from the effects of sin, decay, and death in this fallen world. Plants, animals and maybe, most of all, us! That’s just one of the subjects Mary Ann and Luanne discuss in this second episode where the la…
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Send us a Text Message. Mary Ann says God has often used Romans 8 to encourage her when she’s dealing with difficult, painful circumstances. In this episode, she and Luanne go verse-by-verse through that powerful chapter and talk about the difference between conviction and condemnation, and the HUGE blessing of being able to call God Almighty “Abba…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, Mary Ann and Luanne continue talking about some of the spiritual lessons Mary Ann has learned since her husband sustained a traumatic brain injury several months ago and about the many ways God can speak to us if we have ears to hear. And you won't want to miss Luanne's own rather amazing “pennies from heave…
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Send us a Text Message. Following up on last week’s episode about Mary Ann’s journey with her husband after he sustained a traumatic brain injury, she and Luanne begin talking about the many lessons God has taught and is teaching Mary Ann through this experience. Among those, not fixating on the big question, “WHY?,” is huge, as is the prayer “Lord…
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Send us a Text Message. After a five-month hiatus, this episode marks the return of new episodes of “Unquenchable Hope.” In this one, Mary Ann describes the journey she and her husband, Joe, have been on since Joe sustained a traumatic brain injury. When the unthinkable happens, God is right there, providing wisdom, encouragement, and yes, hope tha…
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Send us a Text Message. If your idea of “holiness” is big hair and a condescending countenance, you’ve got it wrong. Holiness actually equals happiness, as Mary Ann and Luanne discuss today. As the ladies wrap up their series on our identity in Christ (as His followers), they talk about what it means to be holy, loved by God, and a few other wonder…
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Send us a Text Message. It’s like coming up out of the “fog of war” and experiencing clear skies. That’s how Mary Ann describes knowing, hearing and living out our true identity as Christ-followers. In this episode, she and Luanne talk about more of the wonderful, freeing things God says about His children and how embracing those can drastically ch…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, Luanne and Mary Ann continue to talk about how important it is for us to remember who God says we are. From senior citizen discounts to TV shows about Appalachian marshals, Mary Ann continues to offer up her trademark weird analogies to illustrate the need for Christ-followers to reject all the lies the worl…
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Send us a Text Message. Do you feel like you’ve been adopted into a royal family, accepted by God and forgiven for all the ways you’re grieved Him? It can be a struggle for us to embrace and walk in the identity God says we have in Christ—an identity that is far more wonderful than all the other things we sometimes try to base our identity on. In t…
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Send us a Text Message. What do a desperate widow, a prostitute, a bullied scaredy-cat, and prodigal son have in common? All these people experienced a miraculous, SUDDEN turnaround in their lives when God showed up and drastically changed things. As Luanne and Mary Ann discuss in this episode, because God is “no respecter of persons” He’s still ab…
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Send us a Text Message. Even though, as Mary Ann says in this episode, Moses could’ve been featured on “America’s Most Wanted,” God knew this fugitive had the right stuff to lead His people to the Promised land, so He spoke to Moses, gave him his marching orders, and the rest, as they say, is history. Moses is just one character Luanne and Mary Ann…
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Send us a Text Message. Do you believe that as you’re going about your daily life, God can SUDDENLY intervene and change everything? Well, He can, and the Bible is full of examples of Him doing just that. From the “famous” to the obscure, Luanne and Mary Ann are going to be talking about some of these people and their stories in this and the next f…
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Send us a Text Message. Even though Christmas is all about celebrating the “Light of the world,” Jesus Christ, it can also be a challenging, even dark, season for some. As Luanne and Mary Ann discuss in this episode, if we’ll use the powerful weapons Christ-followers have been given, we can defeat enemies like loneliness, stress and despair and all…
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Send us a Text Message. During the 400 years between the Old and New Testaments, God was silent. No prophets spoke His Word to His people. Crickets. But when the time was right, He broke that silence in a BIG way. First, John the Baptist—a miracle baby. Then Jesus, the “Sunrise from on high," came to this dark world. Join Luanne and Mary Ann as the…
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Send us a Text Message. Ever play a game called Fruit Ninja? Well, if you want to wait in line behind Mary Ann's grandkids to use her phone, you can. In Fruit Ninja, you’re challenged to slice and dice various kinds of fruit that fall down the screen at an alarming pace. You control the sword. There’s a lesson there. In the spiritual realm, God has…
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Send us a Text Message. What’s going on inside that noggin of yours? That’s an important question because the Bible says, “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” (Women, too, by the way.) Scary, huh? Well it doesn’t have to be. In this episode, Luanne and Mary Ann talk about the “helmet of salvation,” the essential piece of the spiritual armor Go…
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Send us a Text Message. Do you ever feel like a human dartboard? Like you’re constantly getting hit with the fiery darts the devil is slinging at you—darts like condemnation, failure, and discouragement? Well, in the immortal words of Captains Kirk and Picard of “Star Trek” fame, “Shields up!” In this episode, Luanne and Mary Ann talk about the “sh…
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Send us a Text Message. Even if you prefer to walk around barefoot in this earthly realm (even on gravel like Luanne), if you want to experience the supernatural peace God offers in the spiritual realm, you better put your shoes on -- the “shoes of the preparation of the gospel of peace.” What’s that about? Tune in and find out as Mary Ann and Luan…
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Send us a Text Message. What if you discovered one day that not only was your ridiculously huge credit card debt all paid off, but so were all the other debts you owed? And not only that—someone actually deposited a trillion bucks in your account! Well, that’s exactly what happens spiritually when we accept the gift of salvation God offers us throu…
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Send us a Text Message. Every day, hundreds of thoughts come knocking on the door of our minds. How do we know which ones to let in? It's a big deal because the thoughts we allow to move in play a huge role in determining what we do and who we become. In this episode, Mary Ann and Luanne talk about the danger of lies, the freedom of truth ... and t…
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Send us a Text Message. Forget to put on your belt and you’re liable to lose your britches. Forget to put on your spiritual “belt of truth” and you’re liable to lose something far more important. In this episode, Luanne and Mary Ann continue their discussion of spiritual warfare with a look at the first piece of the armor God has given us to fight …
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Send us a Text Message. Mary Ann's husband continues to recover from a traumatic brain injury, so we're re-running some of our favorite episodes. In this one, you're sure to learn one thing: Mary Ann hates snakes. Don’t miss her story about an up-close encounter she had with a slithering, yucky serpent in her garage. (It may or may not involve her …
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Send us a Text Message. When it seems like we can’t hear from God or sense His presence, is it because He’s too busy or too big to care about our wee little stuff? (NO, IT’S NOT!!!!) In this episode, Luanne and Mary Ann look at some lies we’re tempted to believe when we can’t sense God near and some reasons why perhaps God allows His kids to experi…
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Send us a Text Message. As Mary Ann is with her husband while he recovers from a traumatic brain injury, we’re revisiting some of our most popular episodes. In this one, Luanne and Mary Ann talk about those distressing times when we desperately want to hear from God but He seems strangely silent. Does it mean He’s mad at us or can His silence mean …
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Send us a Text Message. Mary Ann and Luanne wrap up their deep dive into the topic of hope by discussing the familiar promise of Romans 8:28, the enigmatic man in the Bible who waited 38 years beside a pool for healing, the danger of embracing victimhood, the stages of hopelessness, and how to dig ourselves out when we’re in that dark pit. (Baking …
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Send us a Text Message. While Mary Ann is by the bedside of her husband, who is hospitalized after a terrible accident, the ladies are reposting some of their favorite episodes from the past. In this one they discuss how we become emotionally attached to whatever we put our hope in, so we need to be sure to place our hope in the right things. Mary …
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Send us a Text Message. While Mary Ann's husband, Joe, is recovering from a traumatic brain injury, her full-time job is helping him, so she and Luanne invite listeners to go back to the beginning with them and in this episode, hear how this podcast was birthed. Even if you've heard this episode before, the ladies pray it will remind you that no ma…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, Mary Ann and Luanne talk about the scads of promises they found in the Bible about the blessings that come from having an appropriate fear of God. One of those blessings? If we fear God, we don't have to fear anything else! Luanne’s newest book, “Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God,” is available for orde…
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Send us a Text Message. Many people swing to one extreme or another in their opinion about what God is like, but in order to have a healthy fear of God, we need to have an accurate, Biblical view of Him and His love for us. As Mary Ann and Luanne discuss in this episode, if we believe in Jesus Christ, God has given us the right to call him “Abba,” …
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Send us a Text Message. What does it mean to have a healthy fear of God? What’s an unhealthy fear of God? Why is this subject even important and relevant today? Those are some of the questions Mary Ann and Luanne tackle in this new series. And as the ladies emphatically repeat, it may seem counter- intuitive at first, but having a proper fear of Go…
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Send us a Text Message. God never asks us to put off sinful behaviors and attitudes without also instructing us what to put on in their place. In this episode, Mary Ann and Luanne wrap up their series about complaining with some healthy, joyful alternatives that will improve your mood and make you a lot more fun to be around. Plus, as Mary Ann is e…
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Send us a Text Message. Would you keep doing something that was creating bad neural pathways in your brain, making your stomach fat and possibly taking years off your life? Well, that “something” is complaining and sadly, nearly all of us do it to some extent. In this episode, Mary Ann and Luanne discuss one of the big reasons why God takes grumbli…
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Send us a Text Message. God loves us, but He sure doesn’t love to hear us complain. In fact, as Mary Ann and Luanne talk about in this first episode of a three-part series on complaining, the Israelites suffered some pretty awful consequences for their whining and grumbling. God may not send a bunch of snakes to bite us like He did the Hebrew compl…
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Send us a Text Message. When we compare ourselves with others, it never leads anywhere good. In this episode, Luanne and Mary Ann talk about the “evil cousins” of rejection and comparison and how all that really matters is that we each use the gifts God has given us and fulfill His calling on our lives. If we belong to Him, God’s acceptance is THE …
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Send us a Text Message. In this second episode of their three-part series on dealing with rejection, Mary Ann and Luanne talk about the amazing favor of God and offer hope, straight from God’s Word, when it seems rejection has left us in a "small place" with no good options. And a glorious rap song may or may not have been birthed. Luanne’s newest …
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Send us a Text Message. Rejection hurts. Jesus experienced its sting and He can help us when we find ourselves forgotten, left out, snubbed, ignored, abandoned or even hated. In this re-airing of a popular series, Luanne and Mary Ann talk about how to “loose the lies” and “bind the truth” when rejection causes us to self-sabotage. Luanne’s newest b…
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Send us a Text Message. Whether we’re shopping at Walmart, teaching a Bible study, or chasing some lost donkeys (like Saul in the Bible), God is always at work in our lives, orchestrating divine connections or perhaps opening amazing new doors of opportunity for us. In this episode, Mary Ann and Luanne continue talking about how we can find meaning…
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Send us a Text Message. A guy goes out to find some lost donkeys and ends up king. That’s what God can do, not just in the life of Biblical characters like Saul (the donkey-chaser), but in the lives of anyone He wants to. As Mary Ann and Luanne discuss in this episode, God is always at work behind the scenes and He wants to bring beautiful meaning …
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Send us a Text Message. Is it okay to “bother” God with the many decisions we face, even the small ones? Of course it is! But prayer isn’t the only resource God has given us as we seek to know His will. That’s what Mary Ann and her guest, Heidi Blake, discuss in this third and last episode in the series on finding the will of God. (Luanne will be b…
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Send us a Text Message. Does God want to be involved in all our decisions or just the biggies? Are there some things God has decreed that are going to happen no matter what we humans do? Those are a couple of the questions Mary Ann and her guest, Heidi Blake, discuss as they continue to explore how we can discover and live within the boundaries of …
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