Not that long ago, on a walk, I asked God a question I wasn't sure I should ask — whether there was something new He wanted to say over this season of my life. What I heard back wasn't what I expected. He didn't give me an answer. He gave me a word to go study: faithfulness. The Hebrew word for it, specifically.

So that's what I've been doing. This series is the fruit of that wandering, studying, praying, and seeking.  This series is about the shape of my process: a word whispered to me sent me back into Scripture to test it — that's rhema leading to logos. And Scripture, once I actually sat in it, started speaking to me again, personally — logos leading back to rhema. I believe that's how the Living Word is supposed to work. Not instead of the Bible. Through it, and back into real life.

This series is about what's happening underneath all of that. What a single root word, buried in the Hebrew text, is doing to my inner world as I actually let it in.

Come with me. This podcast isn't a lecture — it's a journey I'm already on, and I'd rather not walk it alone.

Episode 1 - One Root, One Word — Introducing Aman

Episode 2 - He is Faithful

Episode 3- coming soon.

Series:  The Heaviness of Hope (HoH)

Hope is a paradox.

We have taught people that hope is light. A helium balloon. A sunrise. Something that lifts.But anyone who has carried an unanswered prayer for years knows this is not the full picture.

Biblical hope is often something you drag behind you on the days you cannot carry it. Abraham waited decades. Joseph lay on a prison floor. Hannah wept so openly the priest thought she was drunk. David ran for his life while wearing an anointing he could not yet use.Hope was not easy for any of them.

This podcast series, The Heaviness of Hope, is a raw and real conversation discussing how and why we carry hope.

Hope is a paradox.

We have taught people that hope is light. A helium balloon. A sunrise. Something that lifts.But anyone who has carried an unanswered prayer for years knows this is not the full picture.

Biblical hope is often something you drag behind you on the days you cannot carry it. Abraham waited decades. Joseph lay on a prison floor. Hannah wept so openly the priest thought she was drunk. David ran for his life while wearing an anointing he could not yet use.Hope was not easy for any of them.

This podcast series, The Heaviness of Hope, is a raw and real conversation discussing how and why we carry hope.

Series:  The Heaviness of Hope (HoH)

Hope is a paradox.

We have taught people that hope is light. A helium balloon. A sunrise. Something that lifts.But anyone who has carried an unanswered prayer for years knows this is not the full picture.

Biblical hope is often something you drag behind you on the days you cannot carry it. Abraham waited decades. Joseph lay on a prison floor. Hannah wept so openly the priest thought she was drunk. David ran for his life while wearing an anointing he could not yet use.Hope was not easy for any of them.

This podcast series, The Heaviness of Hope, is a raw and real conversation discussing how and why we carry hope.

Series:  The Heaviness of Hope (HoH)

Hope is a paradox.

We have taught people that hope is light. A helium balloon. A sunrise. Something that lifts.But anyone who has carried an unanswered prayer for years knows this is not the full picture.

Biblical hope is often something you drag behind you on the days you cannot carry it. Abraham waited decades. Joseph lay on a prison floor. Hannah wept so openly the priest thought she was drunk. David ran for his life while wearing an anointing he could not yet use.Hope was not easy for any of them.

This podcast series, The Heaviness of Hope, is a raw and real conversation discussing how and why we carry hope.

Series:  The Heaviness of Hope (HoH)

Hope is a paradox.

We have taught people that hope is light. A helium balloon. A sunrise. Something that lifts.But anyone who has carried an unanswered prayer for years knows this is not the full picture.

Biblical hope is often something you drag behind you on the days you cannot carry it. Abraham waited decades. Joseph lay on a prison floor. Hannah wept so openly the priest thought she was drunk. David ran for his life while wearing an anointing he could not yet use.Hope was not easy for any of them.

This podcast series, The Heaviness of Hope, is a raw and real conversation discussing how and why we carry hope.

"And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two."  (Jesus)

Series:  The Heaviness of Hope (HoH)

Hope is a paradox.

We have taught people that hope is light. A helium balloon. A sunrise. Something that lifts.But anyone who has carried an unanswered prayer for years knows this is not the full picture.

Biblical hope is often something you drag behind you on the days you cannot carry it. Abraham waited decades. Joseph lay on a prison floor. Hannah wept so openly the priest thought she was drunk. David ran for his life while wearing an anointing he could not yet use.  Hope was not easy for any of them.

This podcast series, The Heaviness of Hope, is a raw and real conversation discussing how and why we carry hope.

Series:  The Heaviness of Hope (HoH)

Hope is a paradox.

We have taught people that hope is light. A helium balloon. A sunrise. Something that lifts.But anyone who has carried an unanswered prayer for years knows this is not the full picture.

Biblical hope is often something you drag behind you on the days you cannot carry it. Abraham waited decades. Joseph lay on a prison floor. Hannah wept so openly the priest thought she was drunk. David ran for his life while wearing an anointing he could not yet use.Hope was not easy for any of them.

This podcast series, The Heaviness of Hope, is a raw and real conversation discussing how and why we carry hope.

Here's the direct link to the episode on Milestones;

CWP.100.  Milestones Are 'Mazing

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1061506/episodes/16242152

Series:  The Heaviness of Hope (HoH)

Hope is a paradox.

We have taught people that hope is light. A helium balloon. A sunrise. Something that lifts.But anyone who has carried an unanswered prayer for years knows this is not the full picture.

Biblical hope is often something you drag behind you on the days you cannot carry it. Abraham waited decades. Joseph lay on a prison floor. Hannah wept so openly the priest thought she was drunk. David ran for his life while wearing an anointing he could not yet use.Hope was not easy for any of them.

This podcast series, The Heaviness of Hope, is a raw and real conversation discussing how and why we carry hope.

Here is a link to the four powerful personal questions Phil shares in this episode:

https://www.philstrong.com/the-burden-of-becoming/https://www.philstrong.com/the-burden-of-becoming/

Series:  The Heaviness of Hope (HoH)

Hope is a paradox.

We have taught people that hope is light. A helium balloon. A sunrise. Something that lifts.But anyone who has carried an unanswered prayer for years knows this is not the full picture.

Biblical hope is often something you drag behind you on the days you cannot carry it. Abraham waited decades. Joseph lay on a prison floor. Hannah wept so openly the priest thought she was drunk. David ran for his life while wearing an anointing he could not yet use.Hope was not easy for any of them.

This podcast series, The Heaviness of Hope, is a raw and real conversation discussing how and why we carry hope.