How to avoid making a car crash out of your faith! If anybody's faith could have suffered from a car crash it could have been Abraham as he was promised a child when he was in his old age. But in Romans Chapter 4:13-25 Paul walks us through his faith as an example of how we drive all the way home to God. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/l ..read more

The Parable of The Orchard. By looking at  Romans Chapter 4:9-12 through the lens of a parable about an orchard we see who is in and who is out of God's kingdom. The view may shock religious people!  Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100340 ..read more

Boasting. Romans Chapter 3:27-31. Worship is like a well of water, it should refresh you. But it can be poisoned by boasting. If we think we have contributed even a tiny amount to our salvation we can’t put God on the highest level of gratitude. We “loom too large and God too small.” “We will not worship with the absolute sense of humility, dependence, and thanksgiving that always marks the best worship.” Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Ke ..read more

What Lies Beneath the surface of the people we think we know? Movies have been made to investigate that idea. In Romans Chapter 3:9-20  paints the darkest colors of humanity which Wester Civilisation for more than a thousand years gave strong credence to.  It paints the picture of our inability to reach God through our efforts and thus sets the scene for humanity's desperate need for divine intervention in the coming of Christ. We see that we even need to repent of our good works because we have inevitably twisted them for personal gain i.e. putting God in our debt.  But freedom ..read more

One of the big changes in people's thinking has been to put God on trial for all the evil things we see in this life. So in  Romans Chapter 3:1-8 we see a very different picture, that it's humanity that has to answer for evil, even if we come from a place of spiritual privilege like the Jews did in the days when the Apostle Paul wrote these words. We see past hang-ups about God being put to good use, present blessings that make you more responsible for trusting in God, and a picture of faithfulness for the future. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.   &nbs ..read more

How can people be lost who have never heard about Jesus? The Bible addresses this question in Romans Chapter 2:12-16 by telling us that people will be judged based on what they know about God through creation and their conscience.  They won't be judged for rejecting Christ when they've never heard of him but they still face the judgment of the One who made them. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creativ ..read more

The Dangers of Criticism. It's very easy when you feel you hold the moral high ground to look down on others. But in Romans Chapter 2:1-11 God puts a stop to that as we see that religion by itself cannot stop our own hearts sinning in similar ways to those we are quick to judge. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: ht ..read more

When God Gives Up? Instinctively everybody knows there is a God. But what do people do with that knowledge? Romans Chapter 1:21-32 tells us that we push that thought away because we are so focused on fulfilling the desires of our heart. The real fall out of that though is if God gives us over to those desires. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons ..read more

The Heart of the Christian.  The news that should travel through our lives is our faith. Romans Chapter 1:8-17 lays out the deepening, spreading, and emboldening nature of our trust in Christ. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100340 ..read more

Have you ever wondered why Christianity has had such a massive impact on human history? Well, in Romans Chapter 1:1-7 we see the power that has transformed Western civilization. Here we see how Christ can bring the most unlikely of people together as we begin to understand the significance that Jesus is  God's son. Contact Pastor Smart from our Church website or send an email.       hope4tampa.com/smartalk       smartalk@hope4tampa.com Music: Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creat ..read more