The Christians Hour

Welcome to TCH.  You’re listening to the Christian’s Hour Program, I’m Stan Smelser, program host.   Here it is, the Holiday Season!  Thanksgiving in the rear-view mirror, and the Christmas Season is underway.  What should be “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year; is for some of us overshadowed by Stress, Anxiety, Isolation or loneliness, Depression.  Add to all of that, since the pandemic, some of us still feel the distance that came from that period of our lives.  Wow!  Let’s take a minute and rethink this a bit.  Maybe, just maybe we’re looking at this whole Holiday thing all wrong?    Sometimes, going into the Holidays we just need to be reminded what this celebration is all about.  So let’s pause, take a breath and listen to some Good News!  Good News that God is near, God is not distant and in fact, like the Christmas Carol reminds us, “Emmanuel”… God is with us!    Over the next few weeks Ben Cachiaras, the lead minister with Mountain Christian Church, Joppa, Maryland will be unpacking how we can find the nearness of God, and through Him; Hope, Joy, New Beginnings if we just take time to notice.    So…  when it seems we live in a world that is distanced here’s some really Good News about how God wants to come near to us, in fact some really Good News that God has come, is here, and that’s Christmas!

Welcome to the Christian’s Hour broadcast, I’m program host Stan Smelser and from all of us at The Christians Hour, we pray you have had a Happy Thanksgiving!   Few other two-word combinations can change your life like “Thank you”.  They change your perspective, they fuel compassion, they fuel generosity, they sweep away entitlement, they connect us to our good, good, father.  They can steer our course, if we let them.   This week, Pastor Mike Breaux peals back the layers of what incredible power is wielded by a thankful heart, and how, according to the Bible’s book of Philippians, we can “grow” that power inside of us.   So… with the answer to the age-old question; what is God’s will for my life, here’s Mike Breaux…

The Gospel of Grace can do what no other “Good News” or Gospel can do.  It not only saves us from our sins, but it saves us FOR a life of freedom and service.  It rescues us!    Rick Atchley, the lead minister at The Hills Church, with multiple campuses throughout the Fort Worth, Texas area today concludes his series of messages entitled “Rescued”.     In today’s message, Rescued, for Life in the Spirit, from the Bible’s book or letter to the Galatians, Chapter 5; Rick explains how Christlikeness is a pursuit, but also a promise.    So… exploring spiritual change from the inside out; here’s Rick Atchley.

No other “Good News” or Gospel can do what the Gospel of Grace can do. It not only saves us from our sins, but it saves us FOR a life of freedom and service.  It rescues us!    Rick Atchley, the lead minister at The Hills Church, with multiple campuses throughout the Fort Worth, Texas area in this series of messages is unpacking for us, how the book of Galatians reminds us of the gift and responsibility of being “Rescued”.     Ever been so frustrated, that you feel like you are at the end of your rope, so to speak, and had to “Take Matters into Your Own Hands”?    Today, from Galatians 4, Rick takes a look at how not “keeping the faith” and “helping God out” can bring “toxic” side-effects into our attempt to be religious.  So, with a clarifying look at how the Holy Spirit and the Cross set us free and keep us free, here’s Rick Atchley.

No other “Good News” or Gospel can do what the Gospel of Grace can do. It not only saves us from our sins, but it saves us FOR a life of freedom and service.  It rescues us!    Rick Atchley, the lead minister at The Hills Church, with multiple campuses throughout the Fort Worth, Texas area in this series of messages is unpacking for us, how the book of Galatians reminds us of the gift and responsibility of being “Rescued”.     So; do you remember when your obedience to your parents became motivated by your love for them instead of threat of correction or punishment?   In today’s message, Rick sheds light on how God’s laws and grace  bring us to maturity and give us Hope.  So here’s Rick with a look through a spiritual “rear view mirror” at rules, grace, obedience and love…

No other “Good News” or Gospel can do what the Gospel of Grace can do. It not only saves us from our sins, but it saves us FOR a life of freedom and service.  It rescues us!   Rick Atchley, the lead minister at The Hills Church, with multiple campuses throughout the Fort Worth, Texas area in this series of messages is unpacking for us, how the book of Galatians reminds us of the gift and responsibility of being “Rescued”.    I remember as a child trying to prove my maturity to my parents saying; “I can do it myself!”  That usually did not end well.  Many of us are trying to work out our salvation that same way by telling God in so many words; “I can do it myself”, but what God wants, is for us to put our faith, our trust, in the saving grace of Jesus.    So… with a lesson on bridge building, grace, trust and being rescued; here’s Rick Atchley!

Did you know that gospel means “Good News”?  No other “Good News” can do what the Gospel of Grace can do. It not only saves us from our sins, but it saves us FOR a life of freedom and service. In this study of the Bible’s letter to the “Galatians” we are going to be reminded of the gift and the responsibility of being RESCUED!   Over the next 5 weeks Rick Atchley, the lead minister with The Hills Church in Fort Worth, Texas will be leading us through the book of Galatians in a series entitled “Rescued”   So, if you feel like you’re trapped in a life that has you at odds with God or maybe you just feel like you are trudging through joyless religion, here’s Rick to explain how you can be Rescued!

Trust is a fragile thing: it’s hard to earn and easy to lose. All of us have trust issues—with people, organized religion, and even God himself.  This is the final installment of 3 messages getting honest about our trust issues, and discovering how God is ultimately the only one worthy of our trust.   In this concluding message in this series, Aaron Brockett, lead minister with Trader’s Point Christian Church in Indianapolis, Indiana tackles how trusting God requires us to wrestle with our own trust baggage to develop an authentic, intimate, trust relationship with God. And how, for some of us, this can be challenging.   So… with a road map for growing deep foundational trust, by getting real and authentic in our relationship with God, here's Aaron...

Trust is a fragile thing: it’s hard to earn and easy to lose. All of us have trust issues—with people, organized religion, and even God himself.  This month we’re on the second of 3 messages that are getting honest about our trust issues, and we’re finding how God is ultimately the only one worthy of our trust.   Today, Aaron Brockett, lead minister with Trader’s Point Christian Church in Indianapolis, Indiana contends that it is a given that where there are relationships, conflict is inevitable.  And that way we disagree can break trust or build it.   When it comes to building trust, maybe we need to ask ourselves, what is the trust of others worth to us?  So… helping us wrestle with the concept of whether trust requires interpersonal conflict and what that looks like, here’s Aaron…

Trust is a fragile thing: it’s hard to earn and easy to lose. All of us have trust issues—with people, organized religion, and even God himself.  This month we have 3 messages that will get honest about our trust issues, and we take look at how God is ultimately the only one worthy of our trust.   This month, Aaron Brockett, lead minister with Trader’s Point Christian Church in Indianapolis, Indiana will be helping us tackle the question of trust.  We know we don’t come into the world with trust issues, we develop them. Trust issues occur when someone you felt close to hurts you, disappoints you, or lets you down in some way.   The breaking of trust, it could be intentional or unintentional—it doesn’t really matter. When trust is broken, a relational debt develops;  so… with the nitty, gritty of balancing trust in relationships here’s Aaron…