Psalm 19 : What Directs Your Life. If you ask what should be at the center of the life of a church, hopefully people would say Jesus! But how we know anything about Jesus is through God's Word. Psalm 19 celebrates the power of the Word to direc...

Pastor Sam Lago. Psalm 4: God's King and the Lost.In Psalm 4, David confronts the lost, calling them to turn from empty pursuits, acknowledge him as God's King, and trust the Lord for joy in His presence - foreshadowing Christ, who as Ki...

Pastor Sam Lago. Psalm 3: Strength in the Storm.In Psalm 3, David shows us how to find rest and courage when life falls apart - by remembering who God is, trusting what He does, and praying with bold faith in His promises. Co...

Pastor Sam Lago. Psalm 2: Blessings for a Rebellious World.God confronts a rebellious World - not to destroy, but to bless. Through His Son, the true King, He invites all people to refuge, repentance, and joy-filled submission to His Kin...

Pastor Sam Lago. Psalm 1: An Invitation into Blessedness.In Psalm1, God invites us into true blessedness - found not in following the ways of this world, but rooted in His Word, sustained by His Spirit, and fulfilled in Christ. This bles...

John 12-1-11: Encounters With Jesus: The Scent of Devotion. There are two examples of devotion in this passage that show us the two ways humanity can live. Which one defines your life?Contact Pastor Smart from our Church websi...

John 11-17:45: Encounters With Jesus: Living in a City without Walls. Death is a reality we all face throughout life, and one day personally. Society struggles to find an answer to it, but here Jesus declares his authority even over the grave.&...

Pastor Sam Lago. John 9: Encounters With Jesus: Responding to the Light.In healing a man born blind, Jesus reshapes our understanding of suffering, reveals the urgency of God's redemptive work, and shows that true sight - faith - often l...

John 5:1-18: Encounters With Jesus: Who is the Healer?John reveals to us the touch of the one person who can heal humanity. Here, Jesus seeks out someone in the deepest need, and by the end of the story, his life is transformed. It revea...

John 4:43:54: Encounters With Jesus: Double Vision. Life is hard. Many things happen to us that really challenge our faith. How can we trust God through suffering? Jesus shows us through the encounter with the Royal Official that there is alway...

John 4:1-29: Encounters With Jesus: Reaching an Outsider. All people long for more in life. Jesus addresses that directly and personally in this moving story of his love, which reaches a social and religious outsider, overcoming all barriers to...

John 3:1-21: Encounters With Jesus: Jesus challenges religion. Jesus' Encounter with Nicodemus reveals how the Kingdom of God confronts 'religion gone wrong'. Salvation can only be experienced through the sovereign work of God's Spirit and is f...

John 1:35-51: Encounters With Jesus: The Skeptic. When talking to someone skeptical about Christianity, see how Jesus handled such situations. He reaches out to people through friendships and reveals who he is by showing what he knows about us....

John 1:19-34: Encounters With Jesus: Great Expectations. What is the logic behind the universe? John points us to Jesus, who claims he can bring meaning to our lives. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send a...

Isaiah 39: Handling Success Successfully! When things go well, they can often be followed by a crash, often because of our pride. Here we see the dangers of mishandling the achievements of life, processing the fallout and how to handle these mo...

Isaiah 38 Bad News From The Doctor! When bad news comes, Isaiah outlines how to handle it by calling us to rely upon God's power, not our own, to do so in prayer and then to process it creatively. Contact Pastor Smart from our Churc...

Isaiah 37:21-38 Pursuing Greatness. How can we pursue excellence in all things while not succumbing to the spiritual danger of pride? We need to learn that whatever we achieve in life is built upon the greatness of God and what he has done for ...

Isaiah 37:1-20 Intimidation 101. God is more real than the most threatening of life's circumstances! Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.      hope4tampa.com/smartalk ...

Isaiah 36: Trust Issues With God. We look at what it's like to trust God in the up and the downs of life, and when compelling voices are speaking into your life that undermine such trust.Contact Pastor Smart from our Church we...

Isaiah 35: Highway to Heaven. There are days when life is like walking through a desert, but when God turns up, everything changes, from the direction we are walking in to finding the road to recovery to profound character transformation throug...

Isaiah 34: Justice Will Have The Final Word. The longing for justice is something that is innate within each one of us. Here, we see what God's justice will mean for this world, something we will all have to face.  Contac...

Isaiah 33 Stability in Unstable Times: the whole world is unstable. It always has been but we are feeling it acutely in our present times. So how do we live in unstable times? We aren’t the first and won’t be the last to ask that question. Isai...

Isaiah 32 The Parable of De-Churched Deborah. 40 Million Americans have stopped going to church over the last 20 years. We follow the story of Deborah, becoming a Christian, falling away from church and how she came back. 

Isaiah 31 Picking the Wrong Friends: Who has been the worst boyfriend or girlfriend you have taken home or could take home? The kind that would make your dad reach for the gun? You see parents are touchy about bad friends. The reason bei...

Isaiah 30:1-21 Listening to God does not come naturally to us, but when we do learn to listen, we discover the truth that Isaiah shares in verse 15, In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength. ...