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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
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Delight
by David Chadwick The eternal God of the universe wants to be your close, personal friend. He's not a distant God. He is profoundly personal and he wants you…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Praise
by David Chadwick God is eternal. He is sovereign and in control of everything in the universe. And he wants to be your friend. He wants you to know him as…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: The Horn of My Salvation
by David Chadwick By now, you should be confident that the eternal God of the universe wants to be your close, personal friend. He longs to be your hope and…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Father
by David Chadwick By now, you should really know that the eternal God of the universe wants to be your close, personal friend. He longs to be your helper, your…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Trust
by David Chadwick The eternal God of the universe wants to be your close, personal friend. Your redeemer, your light, your trust. He is a personal God! Who in…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Hope
by David Chadwick The Christian faith is different from all other world religions. The God of Christianity entered into our mess and offered grace to each one…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Helper
by David Chadwick The eternal God of the universe wants to be your close, personal friend. He is your support, your redeemer, and your chosen portion. Do you…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Shepherd
by David Chadwick The eternal God of the universe wants to be your close, personal friend. He longs to show himself to you as your support, your redeemer, and…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Help
by David Chadwick God is the Creator of the world and yet wants to be your close, personal friend. He offers himself to you as so many things: support…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Redeemer
by David Chadwick The eternal God of the universe longs to be your king, your glory, and your support. He wants to become your personal God. This same God who…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Support
by David Chadwick Are you starting to believe that your God is personal to you? That he wants to walk with you, lead you, and guide you? He does! He also wants…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My God
by David Chadwick God wants to be your personal friend. He has made himself available to you not just as your king, but as your personal refuge in times of…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Chosen Portion
by David Chadwick The God of all creation wants to be your friend. He is a personal God. He is your king, your glory, and your salvation. He also desires to be…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Glory
by David Chadwick The word "personal" means "relating to or affecting a particular person." We serve a personal God. He relates to us and his desire is to…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My King
by David Chadwick In case you haven't picked up on it yet, the eternal God of the universe wants to be your close, personal friend. King David knew this all…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Deliverer
by David Chadwick God is our refuge and strength. He wants to be a very present help to us in times of trouble (Psalm 46:1). He desires to have a close and…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Stronghold
by David Chadwick As Christians, we serve a personal God. He is close to us in times of trouble. He is our salvation and our light. In him, we find perfect…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Steadfast Love
by David Chadwick The eternal God of the universe wants to be your close, intimate, and personal friend. As a hiding place, a shield, and a rock, he has been…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Shield
by David Chadwick In this world, there are really only two religions: either you are saved by grace or you are saved by your good works. Christianity is the…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Heritage
by David Chadwick The eternal God of the universe wants to be your close, personal friend. He wants to be your light. Your salvation. Your hiding place. He…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Hiding Place
by David Chadwick The eternal God of the universe wants to be your close, personal friend. He wants you to know him as your portion, your salvation, your…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Salvation
by David Chadwick The eternal God of the universe wants to be your close, personal friend. He is not a distant God. Psalm 34:18 says that God is near to the…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Light
by David Chadwick King David knew God in a personal way. When looking through the book of Psalms, it is so evident that his relationship with the Lord knew God…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Portion
by David Chadwick King David knew God as his portion. The same God who David worshipped wants to be your portion as well (Psalm 119:57). A portion is defined…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Song
by David Chadwick The Lord wants to be your "song" (Psalm 118:14). Today, we are going to learn why King David referred to God as his personal song! Throughout…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Strength
by David Chadwick When King David needed anything, he turned to God: "I love you, O Lord, my strength" (Psalm 18:1). David's dependency on God throughout his…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Lord
by David Chadwick God is your loving Daddy. He wants to be intimately involved in every area of your life. Like Abraham, we were created to be friends of God…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: The Source of My Prosperity
by David Chadwick King David's relationship with the Lord was profoundly personal. James 1:17 says, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Rock
by David Chadwick David found his hope in God alone: "He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken" (Psalm 62:1-2). When David wrote…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Dwelling Place
by David Chadwick King David knew God as a close friend, so much so that he referred to him as his "dwelling place." A place of refuge where no evil can exist…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Fortress
by David Chadwick "The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer" (Psalm 18:2). King David wrote Psalm 18 and sang it to the Lord after God delivered him…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: My Refuge
by David Chadwick God is "my refuge." "I will say of the Lord, 'He is my refuge...'" (Psalm 91:2). The eternal God of the universe, the One who created…
A Moment of HopeMy Personal God: Introduction
by David Chadwick Do you know what makes the Christian faith uniquely different from every other religion in the world? It is the fact that we serve a God who…
A Moment of HopeHow to Honor Your Wife: Honor in Action
by David Chadwick One mid-afternoon, my mother wandered from the house alone with no one knowing where she was. Dad became frantic and panicked. Several hours…
A Moment of HopeHow to Honor Your Wife: Use Words Wisely
by David Chadwick "Those are just words," people sometimes say dismissively. They are trying to state how unimportant another person's perspective or opinion…
A Moment of HopeHow to Honor Your Wife: Be a Guardian and a Gardener
by David Chadwick In Bible times, for a city to be safe, there needed to be strong walls erected around the city. When an enemy attacked a city, he would first…
A Moment of HopeHow to Honor Your Wife: Share Your Heart
by David Chadwick It was the most difficult time I'd ever experienced in ministry. People who were once my supporters became my critics. And the number of…
A Moment of HopeHow to Honor Your Wife: Ask This Question Often
by David Chadwick The heart of the matter is a matter of the heart. What wise words these are! Most all we do in life flows from what first happens in the…
A Moment of HopeHow to Honor Your Wife: Respect Her Opinion
by David Chadwick We husbands are often "Captain Oblivious" with our wives. We live disconnected from them. They often have insights that could help us in many…
A Moment of HopeHow to Honor Your Wife: Encourage Her Gifts
by David Chadwick We accepted the call to our first church in 1980. For our first year in ministry, Marilynn told me she wanted to get our home secure and…
A Moment of HopeHow to Honor Your Wife: Be a Man of God
by David Chadwick Dudley Do-Right was a cartoon character. Regularly, he bumbled and fumbled his way toward heroic success. Often after he'd delivered the…
A Moment of HopeHow to Honor Your Wife: Trust Her Gut
by David Chadwick I wish I'd been smarter in this area. If so, I could have avoided a lot of pain. I stupidly ignored this reality. If I could redo one major…
A Moment of HopeHow to Honor Your Wife: What Does It Mean to Honor Your Wife?
by David Chadwick The word honor has become missing in action in the English vocabulary. Oh yes, sadly, we sometimes hear about an "honor killing." Most often…
A Moment of HopeHow to Honor Your Husband: Create a Culture of Honor
by Marilynn Chadwick I'm convinced the tone I set in our home by honoring David inspired our children to honor him and each other. It feels good to get…
A Moment of HopeHow to Honor Your Husband: The Training Wheels of Honor
by Marilynn Chadwick Honor is not a subject you hear much about these days. If anything, we've become much more accustomed to disrespect and dishonor. The…
A Moment of HopeHow to Honor Your Husband: If You Want to Be Strong, Abide
by Marilynn Chadwick A young mom once asked me if there was anything I'd do differently if I were just starting out in my marriage. After giving it some…
A Moment of HopeHow to Honor Your Husband: Wage Peace
by Marilynn Chadwick Today's world is busy and noisy. How can I lighten my husband's load and his heart? Help him have fun? I've learned that simple habits…
A Moment of HopeHow to Honor Your Husband: Pray Like You Mean It
by Marilynn Chadwick A practical way to honor my husband is simply through the home environment I create. Our surroundings, daily routine, and health habits…
A Moment of HopeHow to Honor Your Husband: Fight for Him
by Marilynn Chadwick I've discovered that honoring my husband in today's culture requires something of a fight. It helps to realize that we have an enemy. Not…
A Moment of HopeHow to Honor Your Husband: Build Him Up
by Marilynn Chadwick Showing respect is vital to any healthy marriage. But when it comes to honoring our husbands, it helps to understand that no two marriages…
A Moment of HopeHow to Honor Your Husband: Believe the Best
by Marilynn Chadwick Over the years, I've discovered that honoring my husband begins in my mind. What I think about David determines whether my words and…
A Moment of HopeHow to Honor Your Husband: Are You an Ezer?
by Marilynn Chadwick When we understand honor as a biblical concept, it sheds light on our God-given roles as husband and wife. In college, I was a spiritual…
A Moment of HopeHow to Honor Your Husband: Are We Thirsty for Honor?
by Marilynn Chadwick The word honor calls to mind virtues like integrity and honesty. To honor someone is to treat them with admiration or respect. Over the…
A Moment of HopeFive Minutes After You Die: Heaven is our Home
by David Chadwick I hope you have enjoyed thinking about eternity and considering the realities of what is to come for followers of Jesus Christ. I want to…
A Moment of HopeFive Minutes After You Die: The Bema Seat
by David Chadwick Death is a stark reality for every human being. You've heard me joke that the statistics are in: one out of one dies. But what happens five…
A Moment of HopeFive Minutes After You Die: Perfect Resurrection Bodies
by David Chadwick Our culture talks a lot about near-death experiences. Many people, even those who don't believe in Jesus, think a lot about death. I believe…
A Moment of HopeFive Minutes After You Die: An Intermediate State
by David Chadwick The Christian faith is full of both certainty and mystery. Because of Jesus, we can be certain of our eternal salvation if we put our faith…
A Moment of HopeFive Minutes After You Die: Present in Paradise
by David Chadwick Five minutes after you die, there are two very different realities that will take place depending on whether or not you are a believer in…
A Moment of HopeFive Minutes After You Die: How Then Should You Live?
by David Chadwick If hell exists, and if Jesus's teachings about hell are true, then unbelievers who live apart from Jesus will spend eternity there. If this…
A Moment of HopeFive Minutes After You Die: Most Often Asked Questions
by David Chadwick What happens five minutes after you die? What are some of the most often asked questions about heaven and hell? Today, let's try to answer…