Spirit-Led Hope
Spirit-Led Hope is a sequential teaching podcast for Christians who want to grow in hope, peace, and everyday life with the Holy Spirit. Each episode in a season builds on the last, offering clear, practical guidance for following Jesus in a complicated world.
Season 5 explores the supernatural and paranormal from a Spirit-led perspective.
Season 4 examines the doctrine of God and what it means to know our Creator.
Season 3 focuses on understanding the Bible.
Season 2 looks at the tension between the biblical creation story and modern science.
Season 1 introduces the activity, gifts, and fruit of the Holy Spirit in a believer’s life.
For a given season, themes build on each other. For each season the episodes are best experienced in order.
Hosted by Glenn Erichsen — a licensed and ordained lay pastor in the Foursquare movement, with a background in physics and a passion for the intersection of faith and science. (His employer is not involved in the content.)
Episodes
94 episodes
S5 M10: Jesus is the Healer
Season 5 covers the supernatural and paranormal from a Spirit-led perspective. Glenn is taking a short mid-season break, but posting "mini-casts" just to stay in touch. In this mini-cast, Glenn shares how Jesus is the Healer, and ta...
S5 M9: I Watched God Do Something Amazing
Season 5 covers the supernatural and paranormal from a Spirit-led perspective. Glenn is taking a short mid-season break, but posting "mini-casts" just to stay in touch. In this mini-cast, Glenn talks about watching how God touched p...
S5 E1: Season 5 Backstory and Ground Rules
Spirit-Led Hope made Feedspot's top 20 list of Spirit-Led podcasts! Thank you Feedspot!20 Best Holy Spirit Podcasts You Must Follow in 2025Season 5 launches with thi...
S5 E2: Two Christian Worldviews
Spirit-Led Hope made Feedspot's top 20 list of Spirit-Led podcasts! Thank you Feedspot!20 Best Holy Spirit Podcasts You Must Follow in 2025Season 5 will cover the su...
S5 E3: The Unseen Realm--Part 1
Spirit-Led Hope made Feedspot's top 20 list of Spirit-Led podcasts! Thank you Feedspot!20 Best Holy Spirit Podcasts You Must Follow in 2025Season 5 will cover the su...
S5 E4: The Unseen Realm--Part 2
Spirit-Led Hope made Feedspot's top 20 list of Spirit-Led podcasts! Thank you Feedspot!20 Best Holy Spirit Podcasts You Must Follow in 2025Season 5 will cover the su...
S5 E5: The Unseen Realm--Part 3
Spirit-Led Hope made Feedspot's top 20 list of Spirit-Led podcasts! Thank you Feedspot!20 Best Holy Spirit Podcasts You Must Follow in 2025Season 5 will cover the su...
S5 E6: The Book of Enoch and Personal Experiences
Spirit-Led Hope made Feedspot's top 20 list of Spirit-Led podcasts! Thank you Feedspot!20 Best Holy Spirit Podcasts You Must Follow in 2025Season 5 covers the supern...
S5 E7: Consciousness and Near-death Experiences
Season 5 covers the supernatural and paranormal from a Spirit-led perspective. In this episode, Glenn looks at three different views of consciousness and their relationship to the supernatural and paranormal. Glenn then shows the importance of ...
S5 E8: Near-Death Experiences (NDE)
Season 5 covers the supernatural and paranormal from a Spirit-led perspective. In this episode, Glenn looks at near-death experiences and discusses the difficulties in verifying what really happens. He points out that the Christian view of cons...
S5 E9: Visits to Heaven
Season 5 covers the supernatural and paranormal from a Spirit-led perspective. In this episode, Glenn continues looking at NDEs, specifically ones that involve going to heaven. Glenn shares his own skepticism about all accounts of visits to hea...
S5 E10: Remote Viewing and Astral Projection
Season 5 covers the supernatural and paranormal from a Spirit-led perspective. In this episode, Glenn discusses remote viewing and astral projection. These two practices will become more common as more people come to believe in universal consci...
S5 E11: Ghosts
Season 5 covers the supernatural and paranormal from a Spirit-led perspective. In this episode, Glenn discusses how Christians and believers in universal consciousness think differently about ghosts. Glenn looks at how the Bible addresses ghost...
S5 E12: Should We Always Blame Demons?
Season 5 covers the supernatural and paranormal from a Spirit-led perspective. In this episode, Glenn discusses the demonic and offers an approach to viewing situations where people perform practices prohibited by God. These practices are thing...
S5 E13:The Telepathy Tapes Overview
Season 5 covers the supernatural and paranormal from a Spirit-led perspective. In this episode, Glenn discusses "The Telepathy Tapes Podcast" from a brief scientific and Biblical perspective. Glenn explains what the first season of "The Telepat...
S5 E14: How Does Telepathy Work?
Season 5 covers the supernatural and paranormal from a Spirit-led perspective. In this episode, Glenn discusses possible ways that telepathy "works." He looks at this from the perspectives of materialism, universal consciousness, and Christiani...
S5 E15: You Were Made for a Supernatural Life
Season 5 covers the supernatural and paranormal from a Spirit-led perspective. In this episode, Glenn steps back from paranormal topics and explains that humans were made for a supernatural life in God. Glenn gives three tips to help anyone liv...
S5 E16: Spiritual Beings in the Unseen Realm
Season 5 covers the supernatural and paranormal from a Spirit-led perspective. In this episode, Glenn takes a high-level look at spiritual beings other than God and humans. When were beings like angels created? Do angels have wings? And what ab...
S5 E17: Can We See Angels Today?
Season 5 covers the supernatural and paranormal from a Spirit-led perspective. In this episode, Glenn takes a deeper look at angels as described in the Bible. He gives a reasoned answer to anyone wondering if we can see angels today, and ...
S5 E18: Are Aliens the Next Satanic Panic?
Season 5 covers the supernatural and paranormal from a Spirit-led perspective. In this episode, Glenn wonders if the interest in aliens bears a resemblance to the "Satanic Panic." The Satanic Panic took place in the 80's and 90's and was a seas...
S4 E1: Season 4 Prelude
Season 4 of Spirit-Led Hope is covering the Doctrine of God, or theology, from a Spirit-led perspective. In this episode, Glenn gives a prelude to Season 4 by covering the principles which will guide Season 4. The content of this episode is not...
S4 E2: The Knowability of God
Season 4 of Spirit-Led Hope is covering the Doctrine of God, or theology, from a Spirit-led perspective. In this episode, Glenn discusses that we can know God, and not just know about him. Also discussed, are the limits of intellectualism when ...
S4 E3: God is Spirit
Season 4 of Spirit-Led Hope is covering the Doctrine of God, or theology, from a Spirit-led perspective. In this episode, Glenn begins to discuss the nature of God, with an emphasis that God is spirit. Glenn points out our limitations in fully ...
S4 E4: The Goodness of God
Season 4 of Spirit-Led Hope is covering the Doctrine of God, or theology, from a Spirit-led perspective. In this episode, Glenn looks at the goodness of God. Glenn discusses how God sets the standard for goodness and that he always acts true to...
S4 E5: All Attributes All the Time
Season 4 of Spirit-Led Hope is covering the Doctrine of God, or theology, from a Spirit-led perspective. In this episode, Glenn teaches how the attributes of God are interconnected. We learn that all of God's attributes are true at all times. G...