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Daily Hope with Pastor John S. Dickerson
Daily Hope with Pastor John S. Dickerson is a brief daily devotional featuring practical life application straight from the Bible. Daily Hope is produced by Connection Pointe Christian Church of Brownsburg, Indiana. Visit us at cp.church!
Episodes
- Daily Hope with Pastor John S. Dickerson
Feeling Overwhelmed by Evil? Trust God and Do Good (Psalm 37:3)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson continues in Psalm 37 and asks a hard question: what can you do when you see evil spreading and gaining…
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Worried About Evil in the World? Psalm 37 Says Do This Instead
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson begins a short journey through Psalm 37, a psalm that has brought him great peace in the midst of an evil…
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Open Your Home, Change a Continent: Lydia's Story in Acts 16
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson continues the story of Lydia in Acts 16. Lydia was a seller of purple cloth, a high-end commodity in her day…
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Praying for Someone's Salvation? God Opened Lydia's Heart (Acts 16:14)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson looks at Lydia in Acts 16 and what God was doing through the obstacles Paul faced. After many closed doors…
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Closed Doors Pointing Forward? How God Led Paul to Philippi (Acts 16)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson continues through Acts 16, looking at what God had in mind behind the obstacles we do not want. After many…
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When God Closes Doors but You're Still Serving: Keep Moving Forward (Acts 16)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson continues a series on obstacles to a revived love for God, looking at the obstacle of closed doors. When you…
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Prayer of Surrender: When God Closes Doors and Redirects Your Plans (Acts 16:9-10)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson speaks to anyone who has felt God close door after door on a plan they were sure was right, and invites…
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When God Closes Doors and Your Path Isn't Straight: What Paul Teaches Us (Acts 16)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson speaks to anyone who is serving God but finding that doors keep closing and nothing is going the way they…
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Feel Like Giving Up? When Spiritual Opposition Hits, Remember You're Not Alone (Matthew 16:18)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson speaks to anyone who feels like giving up, whether in a marriage, a calling, or something God has asked of you…
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Feel Like Giving Up? Why Opposition and Persecution Are Normal When You Follow Jesus (Acts 12)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson continues a theme of what to do when you feel like giving up, and looks at two difficulties that come when you…
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Feel Like Giving Up? What to Do When Ministry Hurts and Believers Let You Down (Acts 15)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson answers a real life question: what can you do when you just feel like giving up? He shares about the moments…
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How to Access God's Power Every Day When You Feel Weak: The Holy Spirit and Romans 1:16
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson asks where you could use some spiritual power in your life today. He explains that there are times when he is…
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Where Does Real Joy Come From? The Jailer's Joy After Believing in God (Acts 16:34)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson reflects on the revival practices seen in the story of Paul and Silas in Acts chapter 16: decades not days…
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Should You Be Baptized Right Away After Believing? Acts 16:33
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson wraps up the story of the Philippian jailer in Acts 16:33. In the middle of the night, somewhere between two…
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Praying for Unsaved Loved Ones: How One Ford Worker's Faith Changed Generations (Acts 16:32)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson asks listeners to picture each person on their salvation prayer list coming to Christ, and then leading their…
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What Does Acts 16:31 Mean? Believe in the Lord Jesus and You Will Be Saved
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson shares his other favorite verse in Acts chapter 16: verse 31. After the jailer asks what he must do to be…
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What Must I Do to Be Saved? The Philippian Jailer's Question After the Earthquake (Acts 16:30)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson continues in Acts 16 with the story of the Philippian jailer. After the earthquake, the jailer wakes to find…
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Bold Faith in Suffering: Why Paul and Silas Sang Out Loud Before God Opened the Prison Doors (Acts 16)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson continues through Acts 16 with Paul and Silas, who are imprisoned in Philippi and singing and praying out loud…
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Invincible Joy and Hope No Circumstance Can Take Away (Why Paul and Silas Sang in Prison)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson asks why Paul and Silas were singing and praying out loud in the middle of a prison. His answer: Jesus' work on…
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How to Find Hope and Joy in Suffering: Renew Your Mind and Set Your Thoughts on Things Above (Acts 16)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson asks how you find hope and joy in the difficulty you are facing right now. The big idea of Acts chapter 16 is…
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Who Is Watching You Suffer? How Your Faith in Hard Times Shows Your Kids and Coworkers Jesus (Acts 16:25)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson talks about the audience watching your life right now. Pastor John describes four: the great cloud of witnesses…
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Why Pray Out Loud? How Speaking Prayers Aloud Calms Anxiety and Negative Thoughts (Acts 16:25)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson takes a second look at Acts chapter 16, verse 25, where Paul and Silas pray and sing hymns to God at midnight…
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Why Praying Out Loud Changes Everything: Paul and Silas Sang in Prison (Acts 16:25)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson shares one of his two favorite verses in Acts chapter 16: verse 25, where about midnight, Paul and Silas were…
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What Prison Are You In Right Now? A Prayer for Hope and Joy in Illness, Divorce, or Depression (Acts 16:24)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson continues the story of Paul and Silas in Acts chapter 16, verse 24, where they are placed in the inner cell of…
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Praying While Suffering in a Dark Prison: What Paul and Silas Teach About Pain and Faith (Acts 16:23)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson continues the story of Paul and Silas in Acts chapter 16, verse 23. After being falsely accused and severely…
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Suffering for Jesus: What It Means to Share in Christ's Suffering (Acts 16)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson continues the series on the opposition we will face as we pursue revival, which is reviving our own heart love…
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Joy in Suffering Is Possible: How to Prepare for Opposition (Acts 16)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson asks a question: what if you could have hope and joy in the middle of suffering and adversity? He follows Paul…
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Will My Faith Be Strong Enough? Peace Under Pressure (Acts 16, Stephen)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson looks at the moment in Acts 16 when Paul and Silas are physically seized and dragged into the marketplace to…
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Why Doing Good Brings Opposition: Jesus Sets Captives Free (Acts 16)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson continues the revival journey in Acts 16, in the Roman colony of Philippi. After Paul casts the demon out of…
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How to Pray Against Spiritual Attack: Paul's Simple Command in Acts 16
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson continues the revival journey in Acts 16, in the Roman colony of Philippi, where a demon-possessed slave girl…
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Afraid of Spiritual Warfare? Greater Is He Who Is in You (Acts 16)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson continues in Acts 16, where Paul, Silas, Luke, and Timothy meet a demon-possessed slave girl in Philippi. Paul…
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Facing Opposition on Your Faith Journey? Here's Why That's Actually Normal
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson reminds us that real, lasting revival has never happened in a single emotional moment. Every great awakening in…
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Do You Really Love Jesus, or Just Love People Liking You? (Peter's Hardest Question)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson unpacks John 21, right after the charcoal fire breakfast, where Jesus asks Peter three times, do you love me?…
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Feels Like What God's Asking of You Will Break You? It Won't, Here's Why
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson returns to a small detail from John 21. When Peter first met Jesus, a miracle catch of fish tore his nets…
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153 Large Fish and an Unbroken Net: Why This Detail in the Bible Matters
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson unpacks a small but fascinating detail from John chapter 21. Peter, Andrew, James, and John grew up fishing the…
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Everything You're Chasing Was Already Waiting for You With Jesus
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson continues the story of Peter from John 21. After a fruitless night of fishing, Peter jumps into the water the…
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Your Worst Failure Isn't the End of Your Story With God (Peter's Charcoal Fire)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson reads John 21, where Jesus appears to His discouraged disciples after the resurrection. Peter and the others go…
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Feel Like You've Given Up on Yourself? Jesus Calls Peter Again
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson invites you to think of Peter as a model for yourself. Looking back on Peter's story, from the day Jesus calls…
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Do You Love Jesus Imperfectly? Why God Chose Peter, Not the Pharisees
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson skips ahead from Luke 5 to the end of the gospels, to the moment Jesus restores Peter after Peter denied him…
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Do You Have Any Friends Who Don't Know Jesus? A Pastor's Honest Confession
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson begins with a confession. Before he was a pastor, he was a journalist. His coworkers were his friends, they…
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You Don't Have To Clean Up Your Life Before Coming To Jesus | Why He Ate Dinner With 'Sinners'
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson walks through one of the most socially explosive moments in Luke chapter 5. After Jesus calls Levi the tax…
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Does Dying To Yourself Mean Your Life Gets Worse? Jesus Says The Opposite | Deny Yourself, Take Up Your Cross
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson unpacks Jesus's words: "Whoever would come after me must deny themselves, take up their cross, and follow me."…
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Struggling To Forgive Someone Who Actually Hurt You? Jesus Went Straight To Him
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson explains who Levi the tax collector really was: not a generic sinner, but a man who extorted his own Jewish…
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Feeling Spiritually Stuck? It Might Be One Thing You're Not Obeying
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson gets personal about his own revival journey, admitting his highs have been higher than ever and his lows lower…
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The One Person You Think Will Never Get Saved? Pray This Prayer Today
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson asks a hard question: who is the most impossible person on your salvation prayer list, the one you're almost…
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Praying For Someone's Salvation? God Is Already Preparing Their Heart
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson continues through Luke chapter 5 with the story of Levi, a tax collector who was despised by everyone in his…
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Faith Isn't a Feeling: What Jesus Healing a Paralyzed Man Teaches About Real Revival
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson wraps up the story of Jesus healing the paralyzed man, and unpacks a caution every believer in the middle of…
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Praying For Someone's Salvation? Here's The Faith Jesus Noticed First
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson opens Luke chapter 5, the story of a paralyzed man whose friends carried him to Jesus and, when they could not…
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Feeling Spiritually Empty? Why God's Power Isn't Flowing Through You Like It Did Jesus
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson asks a simple but searching question: how would you like the Lord's power to be strongly upon your life?…
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Why You Don't Feel the Holy Spirit's Power Anymore (And How to Get It Back)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson unpacks a phrase from Luke 5 that's easy to read past: "the Lord's healing power was strongly with Jesus." Even…
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Why Even Jesus Faced Criticism From Religious People (And What It Means for You)
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson continues through Luke chapter 5, where Jesus heals a paralyzed man and forgives his sins while Pharisees and…
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Why You Can't Hear God's Voice — And What Jesus Did About the Noise
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson continues the study of the man with leprosy from Luke chapter 5 and turns our attention to one verse that…
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Your Testimony Can Defeat the Enemy
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson teaches from Luke chapter 5, the story of the leper who came to Jesus and was instantly healed. Instead of…
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Jesus Healed a Leper With One Word - He Can Heal Our Nation Too
In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson opens Luke 5 to the story of a man covered in leprosy who begs Jesus, if you are willing, you can heal me…
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Jesus Touched the Untouchable Man Before He Healed Him
No one had touched this man in years. Not out of cruelty, but because touching a leper made you unclean too. So why did Jesus reach out and touch him before he…
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If You're Willing, You Can Heal Me: The Desperate Prayer God Answers
Have you ever prayed for healing, or for revival in your family, your city, or your nation, without knowing if God would actually say yes? In today's Daily…
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Does God Still Love You After You Sin? What Jesus Told Peter
Have you ever wondered if God is finished with you after you fail again? In today's Daily Hope, we look at what actually happens the moment you repent, and it…
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Stop Chasing an Easy Life - What God Actually Calls a Good Life
What if your definition of a good life is completely different from God's? Most of us define a good life as an easy, comfortable one. But in Nehemiah chapter…
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When Did You Stop Being Amazed by God?
When's the last time you were genuinely awestruck by God, not just going through the motions of faith, but actually amazed by His goodness and His glory? In…
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Why God Resists the Proud, Even If Your Theology Is Right
Is it possible to have your theology completely right and still have God resisting you? James 4:6 and 1 Peter 5:5 both say the same startling thing: God…