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A Moment of Hope
Begin your day with a "Moment of Hope." This podcast is a compliment to David and Marilynn's weekday devotional - providing deeper insights and encouragement. Featuring Jenn Houston.
Episodes
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Why Theology Matters: The Trinity, Gateway to Wonder
by Marilynn Chadwick God's work of salvation requires the interplay of all three Persons of the Trinity. The doctrine of the Trinity calls to mind the…
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Why Theology Matters: The Trinity, A Witness to the Gospel
by Marilynn Chadwick Many religious groups, including Jehovah's witnesses, Jews, Mormons, Unitarians, and others deny the existence of the Trinity. A dear…
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Why Theology Matters: Safeguard Against Heresy
by Marilynn Chadwick We live in an age where false teaching is rampant. Cults, counterfeit religions, and even Satanism are on the rise. You might be surprised…
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How to Wait Well: Share Jesus
by David Chadwick Jesus's return is imminent. Therefore, we must "be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might" (Ephesians 6:10). As we learn to wait…
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How to Wait Well: Excitedly and Expectantly!
by David Chadwick How to wait well. It's something we all must learn when Jesus becomes the Lord of our lives. I believe as we cultivate strength in our…
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How to Wait Well: Be Self-Controlled and Sober-Minded
by David Chadwick In order to wait well, we must practice. We must strengthen the muscles that our flesh would tend to let atrophy—especially our minds. As we…
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How to Wait Well: Love Your Neighbor
by David Chadwick Such a simple concept that requires tremendous patience. Loving your neighbor is a skill that, if developed, will strengthen your ability to…
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How to Wait Well: Pray and Praise
by David Chadwick In order to develop muscles in the gym, people have to weight train. The same holds true for our spiritual walks. We must spend time in the…
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How to Wait Well: Look Up!
by Marilynn Chadwick Look Up! The personalized license plate on the car in front of me caught my eye. Look up! Two simple words, right out of Luke's Gospel…
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How to Wait Well: The Secret Mailbox Club
by Marilynn Chadwick I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day (2 Timothy 1:12 NKJV)…
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How to Wait Well: Mom's 3 Minute Rule
by Marilynn Chadwick Don't worry about anything. Instead, pray about everything (Philippians 4:6 NLT). How many times on any given day are you tempted to lose…
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How to Wait Well: Daily Disciplines Strengthen Hope
by Marilynn Chadwick While waiting for answers to my prayers for a baby, I found that simple daily disciplines were somehow connected to hope. Small habits…
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How to Wait Well: Don't Try This Alone
by Marilynn Chadwick During my hardest days of waiting for a baby, there were certain friends who breathed fresh faith into my soul just when I wanted to quit…
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How to Wait Well: Guarding Hope
by Marilynn Chadwick "I'm sorry," the nurse said gently, "you are not pregnant." I sat stunned. All signs had pointed to pregnancy. It looked like our long…
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How to Wait Well: Anchor for the Soul
by Marilynn Chadwick We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure (Hebrews 6:19 NIV). God's strength can help us keep our hope alive. Hope, in…
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How to Wait Well: Delay is Not Denial
by Marilynn Chadwick "How do I hold onto my hopes and dreams when God seems silent?" The question came from a good friend and a sincere follower of Christ. Her…
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How to Wait Well: Waiting for Hope
by Marilynn Chadwick If we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience (Romans 8:25 ESV). Are you waiting for something? Maybe it's the…
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How to Wait Well: He is Enough
by Marilynn Chadwick Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37:4 ESV). "But Mommy, all I want is what I want when I…
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Bad Guys of the Bible: Pharaoh, The Hardened Heart
by David Chadwick God has written the greatest story ever told. It has both bad guys and good guys. Heroes and villains. But he uses all of them to accomplish…
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Bad Guys of the Bible: Shimei, The Crooked Chameleon
by David Chadwick We have taken some time to search out the bad guys and good guys of the Bible. The heroes and villains who God used to write out the greatest…
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Hidden Heroes: King Lemuel, The Proverbs 31 Man
by David Chadwick Today's hidden hero is the last one we will look at before wrapping up with two final bad guys of the Bible. King Lemuel. Mentioned as the…
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Hidden Heroes: Agur, Son of Jakeh
by David Chadwick Solomon wrote the majority of Proverbs, but interestingly, Proverbs 30 was not one of those chapters. Our hidden hero today is the author of…
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Hidden Heroes: James, the Half-Brother of Jesus
by David Chadwick This week, we are going to continue on with three more hidden heroes and then finish up with two more bad guys of the Bible. I hope that as…
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Hidden Heroes: The Philippian Jailer, The Most Important Question Ever Asked
by David Chadwick Stories are filled with heroes and villains. Every good story has to have bad guys who resist the plotline and good guys who carry out the…
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Hidden Heroes: Pilate's Wife, Warned in a Dream
by David Chadwick We have been looking at many hidden heroes of the Bible. Each one has played a significant role in God's story. Whether great or small…
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Hidden Heroes: The Unnamed Widow, Radically Obedient to God
by David Chadwick An unnamed widow is our next hidden hero. Someone whose name we do not even know, but who played a profound role in God's story. Her story is…
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Hidden Heroes: Ananias, Prayed and Obeyed
by David Chadwick The Bible is full of good guys and bad guys. Heroes and villains. Some are well known. Others are more hidden. One of my favorite things to…
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Hidden Heroes: Zaphenath-paneah, In the World but not of the World
by David Chadwick Today's hidden hero has a most unusual name, but it's because it's the Egyptian name of someone you probably know very well. Do you remember…
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Hidden Heroes: Bezalel, Spirit-Filled Creative
by David Chadwick Stories are full of heroes and villains. Good guys and bad guys. My favorite thing to do lately has been to dig into God's Word to pull out…
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Hidden Heroes: Asenath, Matriarch in the Faith
by David Chadwick Hidden heroes are threaded throughout the Bible. Good guys and bad guys that God uses to accomplish his purposes in the world. It's one of…
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Hidden Heroes: Enoch, Walked With God
by David Chadwick So many hidden heroes are found in Scripture. Big and small. Young and old. All of whom played tremendously significant roles in God's story…
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Hidden Heroes: Eliezer, Faithful Servant
by David Chadwick Eliezer is today's hidden hero. If you haven't heard of him, there's a good chance you've heard of Abraham. Husband of Sarah. Father of…
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Hidden Heroes: The Sons of Issachar, Understanding the Times
by David Chadwick I love the Word of God with all of my heart. I believe it is breathed by God (2 Timothy 3:16-17). Through the Holy Spirit, God led different…
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Keys to a Powerful Prayer Life: Deliver us From Evil
by David Chadwick We are wrapping up our journey of learning how to pray. Each day, you have been given a different key to open a new door that you may have…
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Keys to a Powerful Prayer Life: Forgiveness
by David Chadwick We are learning how to pray. The Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6:9-13 is Jesus's recipe for prayer. Each line is another key I want to give you to…
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Keys to a Powerful Prayer Life: Our Daily Bread
by David Chadwick Jesus used the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6:9-13 to guide his disciples in how to pray. I want to take you through this prayer line by line…
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Keys to a Powerful Prayer Life: Your Kingdom Come
David and Marilynn Chadwick join Jenn Houston in a discussion about today's blog.
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Keys to a Powerful Prayer Life: How Jesus Prayed
by David Chadwick We are continuing to learn how to pray. The Lord's Prayer is the guide that Jesus gave his disciples when they asked him how to pray (Matthew…
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Keys to a Powerful Prayer Life: Overcoming Anxiety
by David Chadwick We will wrap up this week with another key to powerful prayer. A key you can use to gain access and entrance into the presence of God. A key…
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Keys to a Powerful Prayer Life: Persistent Prayers for Justice
by David Chadwick Isaiah 22:22 foreshadows the power that would be accessed through Jesus's life, death, and resurrection. Jesus was given keys to open doors…
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Keys to a Powerful Prayer Life: Shameless Audacity
by David Chadwick Keys are used as a means of gaining entrance or access to something. We are spending some intentional time looking at keys for your prayer…
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Keys to a Powerful Prayer Life: Persistence
by David Chadwick I am handing you a different key each day to learn how to access the powerful presence of God through prayer. When doors seem to be locked…
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Keys to a Powerful Prayer Life: How Much More
by David Chadwick I want to explore some different ways for developing a powerful prayer life. There has never been a more important time for the body of…
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Hindrances to Prayer: Forgetfulness
by Marilynn Chadwick Be careful and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long…
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Hindrances to Prayer: Breaking Faith
by Marilynn Chadwick Why do we break faith with each other, profaning the covenant of our ancestors? (Malachi 2:10b CJB). We saw yesterday how strife among…
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Hindrances to Prayer: Strife
by Marilynn Chadwick For where envy and strife are, there is confusion and every evil work (James 3:16 KJ21). We've seen how unforgiveness and unbelief can…
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Hindrances to Prayer: Unbelief
by Marilynn Chadwick But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind…
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Hindrances to Prayer: Unforgiveness
by Marilynn Chadwick Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors (Matthew 6:11-12 ESV). Do you ever wonder…
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Bad Guys of the Bible: Ishmael, Child of the Flesh
by David Chadwick We are going to wrap up the bad guys of the Bible this week with Ishmael. You will find his story in Genesis 15 and 16. He was the firstborn…
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Bad Guys of the Bible: Annas and Caiaphas, An Appearance of Godliness
by David Chadwick Annas and Caiaphas. They are today's bad guys. Opponents in the storyline of the Bible. Both Annas and Caiaphas were High Priests during…
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Bad Guys of the Bible: Nimrod, Rebel Against God
by David Chadwick Good guys and bad guys are throughout the Bible. We are combing through Scripture to examine some of the bad guys of the Bible. Men and women…
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Bad Guys of the Bible: Ahithophel, From Friend to Foe
by David Chadwick God's story is the greatest story ever told. Ups and downs. Twists and turns. Good guys and bad guys. It all makes for a wonderful storyline…
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Bad Guys of the Bible: Hymenaeus, Handed Over to Satan
by David Chadwick The Bible is full of people, great and small, young and old, who God used to carry out his story. And he is still using people like you and…
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Bad Guys of the Bible: King Manasseh, Rebelled from the Faith of his Father
by David Chadwick God's story is the best story! With Jesus Christ as the ultimate hero and Satan as the ultimate villain, God's story is full of excitement…
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Bad Guys of the Bible: Queen Athaliah, Daughter of Ahab and Jezebel
by David Chadwick Queen Jezebel was one of the Bible's leading characters when it comes to female villains. Her husband, Ahab, was just as bad. Unfortunately…
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Bad Guys of the Bible: Ahab
by David Chadwick The only thing worse than a bad guy is a bad guy married to a bad gal. Yesterday, we learned about Jezebel. She was one evil woman. What made…
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Bad Guys of the Bible: Jezebel
by David Chadwick Today's bad guy of the Bible is actually a bad gal. She was a really evil woman. Her tentacles are still in the world today. Jezebel. A queen…
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Bad Guys of the Bible: Cain
by David Chadwick The Bible is full of good guys and bad guys. Every great story has both heroes and villains in the plot line. God's story is the greatest…
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Bad Guys of the Bible: Judas
by David Chadwick God has written the greatest story ever told. Jesus Christ is the ultimate hero and Satan is the ultimate villain in God's story. Within the…
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Bad Guys of the Bible: Simon Magus
by David Chadwick Simon Magus. Have you ever heard of him? His story is found in Acts 8:9-24 and he is today's bad guy of the Bible. Simon was a magician in…