Best Smartalk Podcasts (2024)

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Romans Chapter 8:26-27 Part 2: The Cry of The Heart. 32:13

3h ago32:13

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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…

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Romans Chapter 8:26-27 Part 1 : You're Not in it Alone! 39:19

10d ago39:19

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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 smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution…

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Romans Chapter 8:18-25 : Tasting Hope 37:18

12h ago37:18

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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 smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.…

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Romans Chapter 8:14-17 : Going Home 34:42

24d ago34:42

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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 work within our hearts, adopting us into God's family. Then we know that we are home. Contact Pastor Smart from o…

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Romans Chapter 8:5-13 : Choices in Life 39:15

1M ago39:15

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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. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Acha…

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Romans Chapter 8:1-4 : No Condemnation 38:13

2M ago38:13

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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 done and offers us the fruit of that now. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. …

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Romans Chapter 7:13-25 : When You Are Torn in Two 36:21

2M ago36:21

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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 Christ. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4…

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Romans Chapter 7:1-12 : Two Weddings and a Funeral 36:07

2M ago36:07

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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 Christ can bring into our lives. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/…

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Romans Chapter 6:15-23 : A Different Kind of Freedom 35:32

2M ago35:32

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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 can liberate us from our deepest addictions because he deals with their roots. Contact Pastor Smart from our Chu…

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Romans Chapter 6:1-14 : The Dynamics of Spiritual Transformation 35:18

2M ago35:18

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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's hand, we grasp hold of his hand, knowing Christ himself is salvation. Contact Pastor Smart from our Chur…

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Romans Chapter 5:12-21 : Raised to Reign 37:25

2M ago37:25

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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 Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh C…

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Romans Chapter 5:6-11: Love That Dies 34:23

3M ago34:23

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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 can fill the longing of the human heart for a lasting love. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or…

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Romans Chapter 5:1-5: Walking Free Through Life 38:29

3M ago38:29

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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 ways that otherwise would be impossible. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4…

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Romans Chapter 4:13-25: How to avoid making a car crash out of your faith! 30:09

3M ago30:09

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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 he was promised a child when he was in his old age. But in Romans Chapter 4:13-25 Paul walks us through his faith as an example of how we drive all the way home to God. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website…

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Romans 4: 9-12: The Parable of The Orchard 34:45

3M ago34:45

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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 our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin M…

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Romans Chapter 3:27-31: Boasting 36:13

4M ago36:13

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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. We “loom too large and God too small.” “We will not worship with the absolute sense of humility, depende…

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Romans Chapter 3:9-20: What Lies Beneath 32:53

4M ago32:53

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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 strong credence to. It paints the picture of our inability to reach God through our efforts and thus sets the scene…

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Romans Chapter 3:1-8: God on Trial 31:48

4M ago31:48

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One of the big changes in people's thinking has been to put God on trial for all the evil things we see in this life. So in Romans Chapter 3:1-8 we see a very different picture, that it's humanity that has to answer for evil, even if we come from a place of spiritual privilege like the Jews did in the days when the Apostle Paul wrote these words. W…

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Romans Chapter 2:17-29: Save Me from Religion! 33:40

4M ago33:40

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Save Me From Religion. In Romans Chapter 2:17-29 Christianity claims that humanity needs to be saved from religion not by religion even at the same time as Christianity itself is a religion! Does your faith create pride or humility within you? If it's the latter then you are using God's Law as intended, as a means of pointing you to Jesus as the on…

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Romans Chapter 2:12-16: How can people be lost who have never heard about Jesus? 33:58

5M ago33:58

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How can people be lost who have never heard about Jesus? The Bible addresses this question in Romans Chapter 2:12-16 by telling us that people will be judged based on what they know about God through creation and their conscience. They won't be judged for rejecting Christ when they've never heard of him but they still face the judgment of the One w…

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Romans Chapter 2:1-11: The Dangers of Criticism 32:38

5M ago32:38

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The Dangers of Criticism. It's very easy when you feel you hold the moral high ground to look down on others. But in Romans Chapter 2:1-11 God puts a stop to that as we see that religion by itself cannot stop our own hearts sinning in similar ways to those we are quick to judge. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4ta…

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Romans Chapter 1:21-32: When God Gives Up? 40:14

5M ago40:14

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When God Gives Up? Instinctively everybody knows there is a God. But what do people do with that knowledge? Romans Chapter 1:21-32 tells us that we push that thought away because we are so focused on fulfilling the desires of our heart. The real fall out of that though is if God gives us over to those desires. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church w…

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Romans Chapter 1:18-20: No Excuses for Unbelief 43:34

5M ago43:34

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No Excuses For Unbelief. Is anyone alive who does not possess some knowledge of God? Paul answers that in Romans Chapter 1:18-20. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.…

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Romans Chapter 1:8-17: The Heart of the Christian 37:50

5M ago37:50

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The Heart of the Christian. The news that should travel through our lives is our faith. Romans Chapter 1:8-17 lays out the deepening, spreading, and emboldening nature of our trust in Christ. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod…

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Romans Chapter 1:1-7: The Message of Christianity 38:42

6M ago38:42

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Have you ever wondered why Christianity has had such a massive impact on human history? Well, in Romans Chapter 1:1-7 we see the power that has transformed Western civilization. Here we see how Christ can bring the most unlikely of people together as we begin to understand the significance that Jesus is God's son. Contact Pastor Smart from our Chur…

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Isaiah Chapter 5:1-7: Looking For Wine But Finding Vinegar! 36:08

6M ago36:08

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Looking For Wine But Finding Vinegar! Sometimes you can do everything right but things still go wrong! Being left with such unfulfilled expectations is hard but in Isaiah Chapter 5:1-7 it's God who expresses that with his people. But we also see a way back if we know we have let God down. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an emai…

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Isaiah Chapter 4:2-6: Critical Leadership 35:59

6M ago35:59

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Critical Leadership - Isaiah Chapter 4:2-6 shows us how Christ leads us through life's challenges. We see who he is, what he's like, and what he can do. All this often comes clear to us when we are in survival mode, in the minority, feeling forgotten by God and feeling guilty. Yet he gives us real protection and a path to our true home. Contact Pas…

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Isaiah Chapters 2 and 3: A Hopeless World? 35:33

6M ago35:33

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A Hopeless World? - Isaiah Chapters 2 and 3 unpacks for us hope, even in the face of a realistic perspective on life, an offer of peace, and a call to walk in the light of God. He shows us what spiritual collapse looks like in a culture leaving us to ask what we put our trust in. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4t…

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Isaiah Chapter 1: Thankless Children 35:27

7M ago35:27

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Thankless Children - We can all get nervous about the world we live in and where it's heading. In Isaiah Chapter 1 shows three levels of collapse, national, religious and social. He illustrates what is behind this by taking us around a small town where we stop at home, a farm, a hospital, a church before finally stopping at the laundrette where our…

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Missing Jesus at the Festival 29:55

7M ago29:55

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Missing Jesus at the Festival. At Christmas it's easy to be caught up with everything that happens and miss its significance just as Mary and Joseph missed Jesus at the festival in Luke 2:1-12, 41-53. Instead, the greatest discovery of life lies open before us; that the Father of Jesus can become our Father too. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church…

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Seeing Jesus Clearly 29:52

7M ago29:52

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Jesus shows us that it's often those who think they have already got life figured out that are blind to the bigger picture (John 9 verse 41). While if we are humble enough to admit we don't know everything then we are in a better place to begin to see what God wants to do in us and through us. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an…

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Born to Die! 38:22

7M ago38:22

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Born to Die! The most devasting thing you can face in life is probably going to be the death of a loved one. In Hebrews 2:10-18 we see that one of the main reasons for Jesus coming into this world was to destroy the fear of death that still haunts humanity. Christ claims to have an answer to that fear and that is a claim we all need to listen to. C…

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41: Trends Shaping the Managed Services Market 32:44

7M ago32:44

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Join Steve Hall and Stanton Jones, an ISG Distinguished Analyst, for the last episode of Imagine Your Future for 2023, as they unpack key trends shaping the managed services market. As demand for outsourcing went from strength to strength in 2023, discretionary spending experienced downward pressure. Hall and Jones explore what was driving these ph…

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Homeless at Christmas 34:53

8M ago34:53

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Homeless at Christmas - God's love towards outsiders who are far from home is seen in the famous encounter between Jesus and Zacchaeus in Luke 19:1-10. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons At…

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Acts chapter 24: Opportunities in Difficult Times 29:03

8M ago29:03

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Opportunities in Difficult Times. Sometimes you can feel caught up in a great game of chess like Paul in Acts chapter 24 where he is attacked and defended. But then like digging in a coal mine, feeling overwhelmed by the darkness God can let you find some unexpected diamonds in the dust. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email…

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40: Back to Basics: The Changing Dynamics of Business Tech 35:39

8M ago35:39

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According to recent data from the ISG Index™, the robust expansion of the cloud services market has slowed down considerably in recent quarters. On the other hand, demand for managed services has reached new highs. It seems that enterprises are returning to the basics of core outsourcing. How can businesses drive operational excellence in this new …

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Acts Chapter 23:12-24: Providence and Protection 34:11

8M ago34:11

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Providence and Protection. We often talk about chance, fate, and coincidence. But in Acts Chapter 23:12-24 we see the power of God's providence that works behind the scenes of life, including the most dangerous of moments in life. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: A…

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Acts 23:1-11: The Power That Protects 30:32

8M ago30:32

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The Power That Protects: Christianity makes incredible claims about the influence and protection of Christ over the lives of those who trust him. In Acts 23:1-11 we see how Christ protects us in times of conflict. This in turn frees us to treat those we are in conflict with respectfully. Then we see how God can use our past, and his wisdom, along w…

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Acts Chapter 22:1-30: Sharing your Conviction with the Convinced 38:19

9M ago38:19

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Sharing your Conviction with the Convinced. It's never easy to get through to folk who are very convinced of their ways and today our society is polarizing between very strongly held opinions. But Paul models for us a way to connect, communicate, and convict people like that, as seen in Acts Chapter 22:1-30. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church web…

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Guest Speaker: Alex Pettett, Mission Director of World Witness speaking on Reclaiming Boldness in Our Adoption 39:00

9M ago39:00

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Reclaiming Boldness in Our Adoption. Ephesians 1:3-10. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.co…

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Acts Chapter 21: When Plans Backfire 32:40

9M ago32:40

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When Plans Backfire: There are times in life when things seem to get worse, not better and you can feel like you are lost in a maze with every step taking you deeper into it rather than finding a way out. In Acts Chapter 21 Paul faces such a time through the misunderstanding of people, but in that moment he was following the model of Christ himself…

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Growing Pains 42:43

9M ago42:43

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Growing Pains : Growth in a church can bring its own trials. In Acts 21:15-25 we see friction arising, the filter we can put proposed solutions through and the right level of flexibility that is required to maintain unity. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh C…

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39: AI Ethics & Responsible AI Development 32:47

10M ago32:47

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Artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI are swiftly permeating our daily lives. From customer service chatbots to healthcare diagnoses, from writing loan applications to job hiring, the disruption is here. Many believe AI is fundamentally changing the way we do things. But since this premise of large-impact change is widely accepted, the que…

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Facing Challenges in Life 35:17

10M ago35:17

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Facing Challenges in Life: There are times in your life when you don't just fear what is going to happen but know that something difficult is just around the corner. In Acts 21:1-14 Paul stands as a great example of how God can take us through such experiences. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk s…

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Transfiguration on the Mountain of Prayer 36:05

10M ago36:05

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Experiencing Mountain-Top Prayer: Prayer is more than a shopping list for God, it has to be about glimpsing the glory of who Christ is. In Luke Chapter 9:28-43 we see a prayer meeting on a mountain revealing Christ's glory and preparing his followers to face the darkness at the foot of the mountain. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or s…

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The Lord's Prayer 44:01

10M ago44:01

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The Lord's Prayer: If you want to learn something well in life it's good to learn from the best. When it comes to prayer, Jesus is the best teacher. In Matthew 6 we follow him up the mountain of prayer like a guide, leading us through the gateway of the fatherhood of God and up the mountain pathway. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or s…

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The Power of Waiting in Prayer 37:37

10M ago37:37

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The Power of Waiting in Prayer. Everyone may pray and everyone finds waiting for an answer really challenging. 1 Kings 18 and James 5, encourage us with the example of Elijah's perseverance in prayer. Despite being just as human as the rest of us such waiting can be met with the power of God. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an …

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