HOPE Tri-Cities Audio Podcast

To finish 2020 well—as challenging of a year it has been for each of us — we must process all that we've experienced and endured. Asking powerful questions as we look backward will help us move forward. Asking God for a clear word for 2021 will give you marching orders to prepare for the year ahead.

1. What am I grateful for this year?
2. Where have I felt true joy this year?
3. What troubled me this year?
4. What challenged me this year?
5. Where and when did I find an opportunity for renewal and pause?
6. Have I noticed God's presence in any of this?
7. What is my response to the God of my life?
8. How will I enter 2021? In what spirit will I enter this next year?

During World War I, a Christmas Eve truce was declared. Soldiers on both sides laid down their weapons and spent Christmas Eve eating, talking, and sharing each other's company. When it was time to resume the warfare, they could not. The divide between the two sides had been closed. This Christmas Truce of 1914 holds many parallels to our lives today. Discover how this Christmas, your own battle can come to an end.

It seems to never fail. During the holidays when we should be experiencing joy, we are not. Could it be, we were never meant to live this way? In this message, Pastor Angel shares how we can let joy in by emptying darkness out. It begins with letting God tell us who we are instead of the world telling us who we should be.

Deep down… We are all looking to fulfill something greater… We are trying to fill a need we don’t know how to name it. Our Need for GOD. All of humanity is looking for an encounter with God. Discover in this message that because Jesus is "Immanuel" — "God with Us" — If He is the only thing you have, you have everything! You can have this assurance that He is there through your darkest days. HE IS GOD WITH US.

Guest speaker, Justin Farley, shares from Jeremiah 31 this prophecy of Jesus' coming when God would make a new covenant with the people of Israel. Even in a time of great grief, pain, and loss, Jesus was coming to save. This offers us great hope today that in the midst of our own pain and loss, Jesus is present, ready to save and ready to be our Prince of Peace.

Pastor Bob shares three takeaways from Isaiah 8:19–9:7 to help us find God's Everlasting Light in a Land of Deep Darkness. 1) If your focus is always on the darkness, darkness is what you'll always see. 2) If deep darkness has you overwhelmed, turn to Jesus' overwhelming light. 3) If the Prince of Peace governs your days, death and darkness can't rule your nights.

This Christmas season, take your focus off the dark, turn to Jesus' overwhelming light, and trade death and darkness for the Prince of Peace.

Pastor Aleena shares three steps to being thankful no matter what circumstance you are in. 1) Be thankful and know that God’s presence lives within you. 2) Be thankful and recognize the Glory of God in your life. 3) Be thankful and no longer be a victim to your circumstances.

Pastor Angel shares three steps to becoming thankful. 1) Move past your past. 2) Enjoy the present. 3) Hope for the future, but don't rush into it. Be encouraged today…
Now is the time to decide to give God yesterday… let him heal it…
Now is the time to let God bring life and energy to your now moments
Now is the time to let God take care of your future.

In this message, Pastor Angel shares five ways we can NOT be thankful and then turns it around to show how TO BE thankful.

We are called to be united in a world that is fractured. We must be in touch with the concreteness of our faith to bring about unity. We are called to have ONE HEART, ONE PURPOSE, and ONE CALLING.