Daniel 7. If you want to understand the world we live in, then you have to be realistic about the reality of evil and realistic about the reality of good. Daniel does that and gives us the basis for hope. 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://creati...

Daniel 6: The Lion's King. This is one of the most outstanding narratives in the Bible. We see how to withstand spiritual attack, how to maintain character under fire, and how God's power delivers his people through suffering—not just from it. 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 ...

Daniel 5: God's Power and the Proud. Through Daniel's faithful testimony and His own sure Word, God confronts human pride and reveals that every act of judgement is also a gracious call to humble repentance before the one true King. 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 l...

Daniel 4: A Kingdom Revealed Through Humbling. Through Nebuchadnezzar's humiliation and restoration, God reveals His sovereign rule - pointing us to Christ, the true King, who humbled Himself to bring sinners into His everlasting Kingdom. God continues to call all of us into the blessings of His Kingdom by humbling ourselves before Him. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.c...

Daniel 3: Faith in the Furnace. This is the ultimate "bad day at work"! Huge pressure is heaped upon believers, overwhelming, destructive emotions dominate the story, yet deliverance comes through the suffering, not from it. 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. ...

Daniel 2. The Insecurities of Life. No matter how much power someone has in this life, to be human is to be insecure. Here we learn where our truest basis for security in this life and the next lies. 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.o...

Daniel 1. Thriving Under Pressure. Here, we meet four young believers who are under immense cultural pressure to conform to the surrounding culture, providing a powerful example of how followers of Christ can respond to such pressure. 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...

Pastor Sam Lago. Acts 4:23-31. Partnership in Prayer. As they move forward in mission, the early church faces fierce resistance - but instead of shrinking back, they pray. Grounded in Scripture, united in Christ, empowered by the Spirit, they show us how Jesus still partners with His people in prayer to advance His Kingdom. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh ...

Pastor Sam Lago. Acts 1:1-8. Jesus and our Co-Mission. 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.

1 Peter 2:1-12: Priesthood of all Believers. This is part of our Vision series, outlining core principles that should lie at the heart of the church. What is your place in the church? The answer to that depends upon how you understand your identity in Christ. Then you can see why it matters and the areas of your life that will be impacted by that. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smart...

Psalm 19 : What Directs Your Life. If you ask what should be at the center of the life of a church, hopefully people would say Jesus! But how we know anything about Jesus is through God's Word. Psalm 19 celebrates the power of the Word to direct our lives. So we see that we need a whole Bible (Covenant Theology) for a whole Christ who transforms whole Iives. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk &...

Pastor Sam Lago. Psalm 4: God's King and the Lost. In Psalm 4, David confronts the lost, calling them to turn from empty pursuits, acknowledge him as God's King, and trust the Lord for joy in His presence - foreshadowing Christ, who as King rules, as Prophet calls to repentance, as Priest intercedes for His people. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheid...

Pastor Sam Lago. Psalm 3: Strength in the Storm. In Psalm 3, David shows us how to find rest and courage when life falls apart - by remembering who God is, trusting what He does, and praying with bold faith in His promises. 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. htt...

Pastor Sam Lago. Psalm 2: Blessings for a Rebellious World. God confronts a rebellious World - not to destroy, but to bless. Through His Son, the true King, He invites all people to refuge, repentance, and joy-filled submission to His Kingdom. 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 Attribut...

Pastor Sam Lago. Psalm 1: An Invitation into Blessedness. In Psalm1, God invites us into true blessedness - found not in following the ways of this world, but rooted in His Word, sustained by His Spirit, and fulfilled in Christ. This blessed life can endure testing, bear fruit, and overflow in blessing to others. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celt...

John 12-1-11: Encounters With Jesus: The Scent of Devotion. There are two examples of devotion in this passage that show us the two ways humanity can live. Which one defines your life? 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.&n...

John 11-17:45: Encounters With Jesus: Living in a City without Walls. Death is a reality we all face throughout life, and one day personally. Society struggles to find an answer to it, but here Jesus declares his authority even over the grave. 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 Attrib...

Pastor Sam Lago. John 9: Encounters With Jesus: Responding to the Light. In healing a man born blind, Jesus reshapes our understanding of suffering, reveals the urgency of God's redemptive work, and shows that true sight - faith - often leads us into testing that grows us in discipleship. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod...

John 5:1-18: Encounters With Jesus: Who is the Healer? John reveals to us the touch of the one person who can heal humanity. Here, Jesus seeks out someone in the deepest need, and by the end of the story, his life is transformed. It reveals to us how the touch of the healer works in our lives today, freeing us from being stuck in a rut, revealing one who can ask us to do the impossible, but whose command to obey him must be obeyed in the present. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church web...

John 4:43:54: Encounters With Jesus: Double Vision. Life is hard. Many things happen to us that really challenge our faith. How can we trust God through suffering? Jesus shows us through the encounter with the Royal Official that there is always more than meets the eye in our suffering. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email. hope4tampa.com/smartalk smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod...