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April 19, 2026 48 mins

A program of word and music featuring an eclectic mix of christian music and teaching by Pastor Tom Cullen and Brian Evans.  Mac Wigfield starts the program with southern gospel classics.

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Christian Artists featured are:

Whisnants

New Journey

Mylon Hayes Family

Kevin Pauls with Infinitely More

Michael W Smith

Michael Austen Harris

Celebration Choir

Mission House

Andrew Abbott

Ali Matthews

The Enfield Hymn Sessions

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SPEAKER_01 (00:06):
So glad that you could join us for this program
of Hope Today.
It is going to be such a goodtime together.
May you be encouraged in faithas you listen.
Pastor Tom Cullen will beproviding the third answer in

our series with the question: What difference does the (00:19):
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resurrection make?
Part of the answer, as we willfind out today, is the
resurrection means thatChristians have something to
say.
More teaching in this edition ofHope Today.
As always, Mac Winkfield willget us started with some
wonderful gospel music.

SPEAKER_10 (00:45):
Good morning to you.
This is Hope Today.
This is Southern Gospel Music.
We're getting ready to hear fromPastor Tom.
Let's play a song that tells usbasically where we're going
today.
It's the story of Jesus.
He bled, he died, he rose.
These are the wisnens.

SPEAKER_12 (01:03):
We've heard the great commission to go and
spread the word.
But sometimes our confessionfalls short of what we've heard.
We need to simplify it and makethe message clear.
The good news of the gospel isall we need to hear.

(01:55):
The reason why you so it'sreally just that simple.

SPEAKER_10 (03:16):
Well, it all depends whether in fact God has touched
my heart and my life throughthat story.
If he is changing me, then Ihave something to say to
somebody else who needschanging.
Here's a new journey.
Let my words speak of you.

SPEAKER_14 (03:36):
By your word my soul was redeemed.
All authority given is writtenand living.
Lord, let it now flow throughme.
Let my words speak life to thedying.

SPEAKER_05 (03:53):
Let my words speak light to the cloud.
Every word that I choose, Lord,I pray you will use for your
core.
Let my words be the truth.

(04:15):
Everything that I say everyhour, every day.

SPEAKER_14 (04:35):
Let me tell of your wonders and ways.
May the Lord hear the home andbe drawn by love spoken to them
with compassion and praise.
Let my words speak life to thedying.

SPEAKER_05 (04:52):
Let my words beak life to the Lord.
Every word that I choose, Lord,I pray you will use world Let my
words beat to the trouble.
Let my words be gone to that.

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Every day that I stay, everyhour, every day, Lord, let my
words be.
Let my words be to the trouble.
Let my words be God.

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Every day that I say, everyhour, every day.

SPEAKER_10 (06:04):
What do I tell them?
God so loved the world that hegave his only son.
Whoever would believe us Jesussaved.
That's probably the mostimportant thing that you can say

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to any individual.
Here's Mylan Hayes and hisfamily.
They will tell us exactly that.

SPEAKER_11 (06:52):
Jesus says, Jesus says, Spread the tides all
around.

SPEAKER_05 (07:06):
Jesus says, Jesus says, bear the news to every
land.
Climb the steeps and cross thewaves onwards, our Lord's

(07:31):
command.

SPEAKER_08 (07:33):
Jesus Jesus sing above the battle strike.
Jesus saves Jesus saves by hisdeath and less alive.

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Jesus saves Jesus saves.

SPEAKER_02 (08:15):
When the heart for mercy praise, sing it right.

SPEAKER_05 (08:28):
Jesus says, Jesus the mighty voice.
Jesus says Jesus nation'smarriage.

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Jesus, Jesus said, I was deep.

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Jesus said all these birds to besick.

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Jesus.

SPEAKER_00 (10:35):
If you're a regular listener of Hope Today, you know
that during these weeksfollowing Easter, we are asking

the question (10:41):
what difference does the resurrection make?
Stay with us as we explore thiswonderful theme today.
Here's Kevin Paul's andinfinitely more with Crown Him.

SPEAKER_06 (10:59):
Let angels prostrate for.

SPEAKER_17 (11:27):
So hear to him whose grace saves us and crown him
wonderful.

SPEAKER_04 (11:38):
Let the angels come Let it we try on this half

(12:21):
people.

SPEAKER_00 (14:37):
Bring forth the New Testament book of First
Corinthians, the follower ofChrist by the name of the Holy
Fear.

(14:58):
Jesus Christ rose from the dead.

(15:57):
If Jesus didn't rise from thedead, then that message isn't
true.
It means that the world isright, that the aggressive and
proud, they're the ones weshould emulate because they're
the ones who will be victoriousin the end.
If Christ has not been raised,then we Christians have nothing
to say.
No truth.
Our preaching is useless.

(16:18):
But if he did rise from thedead, we have the greatest
message the world has everheard.
The enemy's been defeated.
Death couldn't hold him down.
We're gonna lift our voice invictory with Michael W.
Smith and shout unto God.

SPEAKER_05 (16:34):
The enemy is gonna defeat it, and death couldn't
hold you down.
We're gonna lift our voice andmake the people.

SPEAKER_00 (18:55):
That means we have nothing to say.
But think of that statement inthe positive.
If Christ has been raised fromthe dead, then we have the best
news the world has ever heard.
We have something more saying.
And indeed we see it to be truewith the disciples.
One of the greatest testimoniesto the reality of the
resurrection of Jesus.

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We have a truth that is lifegiving the free.

SPEAKER_01 (24:44):
Dr.
Robert Lowry is a name you willhear often as we discover the
stories of these traditionalhymns.
Born in 1826, Robert acceptedChrist as his personal savior at
the age of 17 after graduatingwith honors from Bucknell
University and having receivedhis doctorate, he began his

(25:05):
pastoral ministry.
He pastored several importantchurches in Philadelphia, New
Jersey, New York City, andBrooklyn.
Lowry was recognized as a mostcapable minister of the gospel,
possessing keen insight andstrong administrative ability.
He continued in active Christianministry until his homegoing in

(25:27):
1899.
Music and a knowledge ofhymnology were his favorite
studies.
He composed many hymns andtunes, publishing many
songbooks.
His hymn, Christ Arose, is anEaster celebratory hymn written
in 1874.
It was inspired during hisdevotions one night when Robert

(25:50):
read Luke 24, 6 to 8, where thepassage records in part He is
not here, but is risen.
There is a vivid contrast of theverses with their moods of death
and refrain with its celebrationof Jesus' resurrection.
Listen for these dynamics asCelebration Choir present their

(26:12):
version of Christ arose.

SPEAKER_00 (28:48):
We have a truth that is life-giving and affirming and
is able to turn people fromdarkness to light, from death to
life.
Think of all the trivial thingsthat people talk about, hours
spent on Facebook and Twitter.
But the gospel is all about sucha massive truth as life and
death.

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Relating to the living God andthe risen Savior.
We have something worth sharingwith the dying world.
We can have saved the world.

(29:57):
Everything is a conspiracy.
Everything is crooked.
Nothing can be trusted.
Everything is twisted.
And it seeps into our faith.
But let me assure you, of allthe things in this world that
you may doubt, you do not needto doubt the truth of Christ's
promises to you.
They are made to you by aliving, risen Savior, who in his

(30:21):
resurrection proves that thereis nothing false in him.
Here is Mission House withNothing Left to Do.

SPEAKER_06 (30:37):
There is nothing left to do but run into I am
lost if I do not.

(31:36):
There is nothing left to do butrun into I'm lost the body.

SPEAKER_05 (31:43):
There is nothing left to do I'm running to room.
I'm broken iron room, I'm lostby something left to do, but run
into rooms.
I'm broken iron room, I'm lostby no job There's no salvation

(32:20):
There is no living outside ofyou There is no love There is no
fusion There is no freedomoutside of you There is no joy

(32:45):
There's no salvation There is noliving outside of you There's
nothing left to do I run intoTri I'm broken I won't I'm lost
if I do not There's nothing leftto do but running to I'm broken

(33:07):
I won't I am lost if I donothing left to do but run into
I'm broken I am wrong I'm lostif I do not there's nothing left
to do but run into I am room I'mlost if I do not Our Lord's
resurrection makes a differenceit means that we Christians have

(33:30):
something to say it means thatwe can trust his promises but it
also means that you can havefaith in God's presence in your
life and this is a great need inour day you know in Acts chapter
1 we read in verse 3 that afterJesus died on the cross and rose
again he appeared to thedisciples and said the text and

(33:51):
many convincing truth that hewas alive strange the disciples
need many convincing truth thathe was alive and many convincing
cruise that I mean it was youwouldn't you believe that Jesus
showed up when you're dyingconvincing resurrection you will

(34:38):
realize that I am in my fatherand you are in me and I am in
you and this is important if youbelieve in Jesus Christ he now
lives in you so we have this newlife of Christ his righteous
sinless God-infused life in usand that is only possible if he

(34:58):
rose from the dead if he did notrise from the dead then he has
no life to give to us but he didrise from the dead and now
through faith it is no longer Iwho live but Christ who lives in
me so Andrew Abbott sings helives there are no words that
can express deep inside my chestwhere the God of all is calm and

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dwell can I do but give myselfcome to mend my broken soul can

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I do but give it all for you Iam listening to Hope Today and

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we're celebrating the truth thatJesus rose from the dead and is
alive forevermore here is AllieMatthews singing When I survey
the wondrous cross when I surveythe wondrous cross on which the

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Princess of glory died I can'tforget saving the dead of Christ

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my God of the vain I sacred themto his blood see from his hand

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his sign his feet sorrow andlove flow mingle such love and

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sorrow's command for the richnature that were a present far

(41:30):
too small love so amazing sodivided Demands my soul my life

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my all demands my soul my lifemy all the late Dr.

SPEAKER_00 (42:15):
James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church
tells of a time when he wassharing his faith with a man who
did not believe in Jesus.
Dr.
Kennedy questioned him sayingyou don't believe that Jesus is
alive from the dead no I don'twell then I challenge you to
invite him to come in and takeover your life and become the

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savior of your soul and the Lordof your life and nothing will
happen everything will happen onthe back of the I can't say you

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just asked the risen Christ tocome into your life and then he
quoted our Lord Behold I standat the door and knock.
If anyone opens the door I willcome into him and that's the
ultimate test isn't it the truthof the resurrection makes all
the difference in the world butI pray that you would be able to
say it makes all the differencein me.

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He once was dead but now he'salive in me forevermore the
Enfield hymn sessions bring us agreat hymn celebrating the new
life Christ brings in And Can ItBe

SPEAKER_05 (44:00):
It be that I should gain an interest in the same
pure blood died for me whocaused his pain for me who him

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to death pursue amazing love Howcan it be that thou my God
should die for me?

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Amazing love how can it be thatthou my God should die for me?

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He left his father's throneabove, so free, so infinite his
grace and beat himself of allblood love and bless for Adams

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race, mercy all in free for ohmy God, it found out me amazing
love how can it be?

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Let thou my God should die forme.

SPEAKER_01 (46:10):
Easter is such an important time of the year.
May you be encouraged to knowthat Jesus Christ our Lord is
alive and active in our livesthrough his spirit.
Do you know him?
Hope Today is produced atStraight Path Studios and is
brought to you by your friends.
If you have comments, we wouldlove to hear from you.

(46:31):
Please email to listener at hopetoday-llp.ca.
Won't you join us next time foranother inspirational program?
Until then, may God reveal toyou his love and hope.
Blessings to you all.

SPEAKER_05 (47:23):
How can it be that thou my God should die for me?
No condemnation now I dreadJesus and in him as mine alive

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in him, my living head enclosedin righteousness, mind.

unknown (48:07):
Bold I approach.
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