Hope Cast

We all want the new year to kick off to a great start and the year itself to be healthy and beneficial. This week, Ricky and Bonnie discuss ways to practice healthy habits that can benefit anyone spiritually as well as emotionally and physically.

Happy New Year! This week, we are celebrating 300 episodes of the HopeCast with a very special sharing of brief testimonies from listeners. Enjoy hearing about the impact that 300 episodes have made and consider listening to one of our 299 topics discussed here!

It's Christmas Week, which is a great time to prepare for the many triggers that come with the holiday season. Ricky and Bonnie discuss managing expectations for the holidays, how to prepare for the holiday not being picture-perfect like the movies and how to navigate tricky family interactions. We hope you all have a joyous and happy holiday!

This week, Ricky and Bonnie discuss how to approach conversations with teens about navigating their LGBTQ+ friendships with truth and grace. In a culture where everything screams that love is agreeing 100% with another's decisions, young people can struggle with honoring Christ and honoring their friends simultaneously, and Ricky and Bonnie are here to give tips for discussing these things with teens.

This week is just Bonnie and Marsha! Our Women's Minister and Friends & Family Director discuss how transgenderism is often lumped together with same-sex attraction in the LGBTQ+ community, but that the struggle of transgenderism is a little more on the opposite spectrum of same-sex attraction. They talk about what is often going on under the surface of someone struggling with their God-given gender and how we can meet those struggles with the love of Christ.

Ricky and Bonnie are joined by Marsha Inman, the Friends & Family Director at Living Hope, to discuss how parents can navigate their children's struggle with their genders from young and still in the home, to adult and returning home for the holidays. They talk about asking good, open questions, setting boundaries, and continuing to love with grace and truth.

Happy Thanksgiving, HopeCast Listeners! Whether you are in the U.S. gearing up for Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving is not a holiday you celebrate in your part of the world, gratitude is something we can all grow in. Thankfulness can shift your perspective in many ways. This week, Ricky and Bonnie are here to discuss how gratitude can improve your relationships with both with other people, something people with LGBTQ+ struggles often find a lot of heartache in, and most importantly with the Lord Himself.

In this episode, Bonnie and Ricky discuss a recent survey of church-goers and the common misconceptions believed even among people who attend church (not necessarily Christ-followers). They meet these misconceptions with the truth of God's Word.

This week, Ricky and Bonnie sit down with another participant from our Living Hope Women's Group, Bridget, who shares her story from her testimony to finding Living Hope to pursuing a degree in apologetics and now a certification in Biblical Sexuality Ministry through the Institute of Biblical Sexuality.

This week is another one of our most played episodes! This week, Ricky and Bonnie define emotional dependency, why it is important to talk about and the steps to navigate relationships in a way that is healthy and glorifying to Christ.