Our Journey to Hope
We all have the potential to have our hope challenged by life events, or we know someone whose hope is currently being challenged. I invite you to explore this critical topic with us and please, share this with others. Our goal is to strengthen our own hope while helping others discover, sustain, or regain hope. Remember, no one walks alone. The opinions expressed by guests on this podcast do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the host. Guests are encouraged to express their opinions and insights freely in the interest of providing understanding and encouragement to others. For more information, please visit my website at: https://ourjourneytohope.com/
Episodes
Marissa Bondurant
I continue to be amazed at the phenomenal people engaged in helping others discover, sustain, or regain hope. My guest in this episode discovered a way to help caregivers with true and lasting hope. I invite you to listen to her. Listen to the love and compassion she shares for those special people in our lives.
Marissa is very active in providing resources for caregivers. She is an accomplished ...
Most of us don’t think about the need for funeral services until there is a death of someone. We also may not see a connection between a funeral service and hope. It is counter-intuitive to put death and hope together. Yet those who serve during the end of life activities, including funeral service directors do impact hope in survivors. They help form a foundation upon which others move on into the future of their...
Friends, please forgive me for replaying an episode from 2023. I feel that as the season of holidays centering on family and hope that it is fitting to revisit this episode.
This episode focuses on regaining hope when we feel hope is lost. Hope is not lost. It may be misplaced or overlooked, but hope remains. The only time hope is truly lost is when we give it up.
Please listen and share with someone who is facing c...
There are many ways in which we can help those facing challenges to their hope. A very successful way is to help them focus their efforts on personal and spiritual growth and to reach out to help others do so as well.
In this episode I am speaking with Jim Lucas of HomeMission. His personal motivation and the efforts of this incredible organization is to help bring hope to those seeking to grow. They focus on help...
We've explored what hope is in several of our episodes. In fact, I always like to ask my guest how they understand hope. They've always given me wonderful insights.
In this episode I want to share further some of my thoughts about what hope is and especially, what is the source of true and lasting hope. It is something that is real, necessary for life, and achievable for all of us.
I invite you to join me...
If you’ve followed this podcast you’ve heard me say several times that one of the ways to overcome a challenge to your hope is to get out of yourself and help others. This almost always brings your hope thrive.
My guest today has spent his life helping others through many different volunteer activities. He uses his passion for volunteering to inspire others to do so. And in doing so, he helps bring a quality of lif...
Sometimes we find out what someone is doing for those whose hope is being challenged and it takes our breath away. Such is the case with my guest in this episode.
Ashley Pharr is part of an organization that fly patients and caregivers to receive care at no cost. It began small and now has about 800 flights per year.
I invite you to listen to how the founder recognized a need and took what he had to serve others b...
Our Lord Jesus stated on several occasions that He would return. To the apostles and other first century Christians, was the expectation that the return was imminent . The return of Jesus is something we look for, perhaps even long for. Yet here we are, over 2,000 years and He has not returned yet.
How are we to think about that? How do we handle any doubt we might have about His return? How do we answer the ques...
In this episode I have a conversation with Weston Brandon about how he recovered after what is arguably one of the greatest challenges to hope. Shortly after the premature birth of his son, his wife died.
Join us in this conversation as you hear how Weston not only overcame this challenge but grew from it into a way to help others discover, sustain, or regain hope.
Weston is an author, speaker, and podcaster who shar...
Courage takes many forms. It often involves doing something that you might be uncomfortable with doing. In this episode I am speaking with Damien Barber. Damien is part of a team that is involved in starting a new congregation known as the Compass Church of Christ in Millbrook, Alabama. Damien and his team are focused on carrying the gospel to those who are finding their hope challenged.
I invite you to listen to t...
A commonality among many of those that have gone through or are going through a challenge in life is that they feel compelled to turn around and help those facing challenges on their own. Such is the case with my guest in this episode.
I am speaking with Ingrid Hanson-Popp. She experienced the joys and challenges of being a caregiver for her mother. Through it she gained many valuable insights that she shares with u...
When we face challenges in life, usually health or age related, amoung those who are of the greatest value to us are the non-paid, often family caregivers. These dedicated individuals help us to discover, sustain, or regain hope in what for many is the most challenging time of our life.
My guest in this podcast is Kristi Horner. Kristi has been a caregiver herself and is now dedicated to helping caregivers realize th...
There are many remarkable events in the life of Jesus. In fact, as the apostle John closes his gospel, he states,
"Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written."
In this episode I want to focus on one event early in the ministry of our Lord. It is the event when He confirmed throug...
In Matthew 25 our Lord gives us an insight into judgment day through the Parable of the Talents. Now, although in the day a talent was a measure of money, the priniciple Jesus was teaching us was to use what God has given us to glorify Him.
My guest in this episode has been gifted with a wonderful ability to use photography to show us not only the glory of nature, but the glory of the creator of Nature, God the Father...
I’ve stated many times that all of us have gifts that we can use to help others who are having challenges to their hope. Sometimes we think we have to do great and wonderful things or have special knowledge and skills. And yet, more often it is the seemingly small or insignificant things that mean the most.
In this episode I am speaking with Lorraine Smith about her ministry of sending out cards of encouragement to ...
There are some things we take for granted because it’s been a part of our entire life and we just don't think about it. Such is the concept of communication. Most of us think we’re good communicators, and we probably are, but all of us can improve. And, as I’m trying to do through this podcast, I want to know how can I can use communication to help others who’s hope might be challenged.
Dan Streety is my guest...
What a delightful and talented guest!
In this eipsode I have a conversation with Addie Ott about her understanding of hope. She brings excellent insights to help those whose how is being challenged.
I encourage and invite you to listen. Note the joy in her voice. Also note the scriptures she offers to help us remember, as she states, God's promises and His faithfulness to us.
It's very common to find someone who has experienced challenges in their life to look to how they can use the experience to help others. Such is my guest, Beverly Ross. Beverly experienced the loss of a child and a personal battle with cancer. Through it all, although hope was challenged, she held on to her hope and hope flourished.
Beverly now is the founder and executive director and a counselor with Wise C...
In this fourth installment of the series on how grandfathers help instill hope in their children, I am speaking with Russ Knowles. Russ is a brother in the Lord, good friend, and a granddad. I’ve always appreciated his insights into other topics, and I think he’ll have some interesting ideas for this podcast.
I invite you to listen and be encouraged by Russ’ insights.
In this third installment of the series on how grandfathers help instill hope in their children, I am speaking with Dr. Steve Wages of the Cloverdale Center for Youth & Family Ministries at Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama. Steve brings a wealth of insights into this topic as both a grandfather and a researcher and teacher. I invite you to listen to the depth of wisdom from Steve.
In our discussion Ste...
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