Circle of Hope Sunday Meetings: Recent Episodes
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Circle of Hope is one church with four locations, as well as cells (small groups) that meet in and around the area of Philadelphia and New Jersey throughout the week. This podcast delivers talks on a weekly basis from our Sunday Meetings at 5 and 7pm. For more information visit us on the web at www.circleofhope.net.
Season: Lent: What We Need to Resist
Talk: We Resist Scarcity
Speaker: Jonny Rashid
Why is resisting a loaf of bread transformative? Jesus moves away from temptation, something as basic as a loaf...
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.
Season: Lent: What We Need to Resist
Talk: The Antidote to Loneliness
Speaker: Rod White
For Lent, how about we face our loneliness, like Jesus out in the wilderness? Rod comes with the bad news...
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.
Season: Lent: What We Need to Resist
Talk: We resist our appetites
Speaker: Ben White
Lent is about resisting the status quo--both personal patterns inside and oppressive forces outside. Lent is...
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.
Season: Lent: What We Need to Resist
Talk: We resist our appetites
Speakers: Joshua Grace
Our appetites can be normal and healthy. They can be warped and conditioned unconsciously. We can also...
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.
Talk: Jesus submerged in us
Speakers: Rod White
It is all about the WATER stage of the way of Jesus. In the scene of John's baptism of Jesus, it might be tempting to look up and receive the...
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.
Season: What's So Special About Jesus?
Talk: He does the impossible, namely forgiveness
Speaker: Rachel Sensenig
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.
Season: Let's do something new
Talk: Stand firm, not alone
Speaker: Ben White
Our political climate has generated a new awareness. Oh, we ARE part of something bigger. Oh, things can happen that...
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.
Talk: Re-wilding the Way
Speakers: Todd Wynward
Todd Wynward shares about Watershed Discipleship. About Todd: Todd Wynward is a public school founder, small-scale farmer, wilderness educator...
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.
Season: Let's do something new
Talk: Be as different as you are.
Speaker: Ben White
Our mutuality is hard won. Bring who you are to harmonize with us as Christ brings us together. In Ephesians...
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.
Talk: Branches
Speakers: Joshua Grace
How often in life do we look for new ideas/information/evidence to reinforce what we already think? What if our spiritual life was mostly like that? Jesus...
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.
Season: What's So Special About Jesus?
Talk: He Inverts Power
Speaker: Rachel Sensenig
It’s easy to feel powerless in the empire that is the United States—especially now. Many people feel...
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.
Season: Let's do something new
Talk: Discipline Your Desire
Speaker: Jonny Rashid
Our church is like the root system of a tree, or a few trees—the half that we don’t usually see. Their gnarly...
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.
Talk: Jesus isn't trying to be special; he's relating.
Speakers: Rachel Sensenig
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.
Season: What's So Special About Jesus?
Talk: He's a Mirror
Speaker: Ben White
What’s so special about Jesus? He’s a mirror. A much better mirror than the ones we have available to us. From pop...
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.
Season: Let's do something new
Talk: Give what you're given
Speaker: Ben White
Everyone has trouble do something new. You’re not alone. Our resistance to change, our lack of hope for change, our...
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.
Season: Way of Jesus
Talk: The Way is Narrow
Speaker: Gwen White
When Jesus observed that the way to life is narrow (Matthew 7), he wasn’t setting up a standard that he thought most people would...
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.
Talk: Roots
Speakers: Joshua Grace
In his letter to the church in Rome, the apostle Paul says faith gives us access to the grace in which we stand. Likewise, consider the church as a living...
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.
Talk: Seeds
Speakers: Joshua Grace
Faith is a spiritual muscle that we work out, used for connection and transformation.
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.
Talk: Epiphany
Speaker: Jonny Rashid
God’s our friend. My oldest daughter was learning that the other day. I think that might be the summary of God’s work in the world and the culminating reality...
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.
Talk: The Whole World's Story
Speaker: Ben White
We, as a culture, are not very good at looking for a long time at anything. From multitasking to media, we are distracted and generally over...
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.
Talk: The Star of Wonder
Speakers: Joshua Grace
Start with your own working definition of faith. Epiphany gives an opportunity to make space for wonder to transform our faith from a series of...
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.
Talk: Epiphany
Speaker: Rachel Sensenig
Do you ever feel too far away for God to reach you? The revelation of Jesus to the Magi is good evidence that we are never too far away for God to cover the...
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.
Season: Advent
Talk: Ask Me Anything
Speaker: Jonny Rashid
Jonny Rashid answers questions at the Sunday Meeting.
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.
Talk: 2017's Story
Speaker: Ben White
There are some things that happened in 2016 that are going to get in your way as you move into 2017. Naming them and their effect on you is powerful. God...
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.
Talk: Remembering the Innocents
Speakers: Joshua Grace
Our disappointment needs to get named when we can allow God to touch it. It may not remain the same, it might even be composted into respect...
Circle of Hope is a network of congregations in the Philadelphia area, dedicated to being a warm and welcoming place for people to explore God's love. Visit us at www.circleofhope.net for more info.