Hope Church - Fort Worth, TX

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Hope Church - Fort Worth, TX is a religion podcast hosted by Hope Church, with 100 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  3C: The Hidden Idols You Never Knew You Had

  Aug 19, 20261h 2m

  What happens when good things become ultimate things? In this episode of The 3C Podcast , the guys continue the conversation about the heart—why pressure often reveals what's really going on inside us, how our reactions can expose deeper desires, and why we shouldn't "waste the squeeze" when life gets difficult. They also explore some of the hidden idols that can quietly take God's place in our hearts . And they aren't necessarily bad things. Ministry, family, plans, belonging, knowledge, theology, and even our memories of the "good old days" can become dangerous when we begin looking to them for what only God should provide. How can you tell when something good is creeping onto the throne of your heart? What does your response when it's threatened reveal? And how does Jesus actually transform us from the inside out? It's an honest conversation about pressure, priorities, idolatry, spiritual growth, and learning to keep God where He belongs—at the center of everything.

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  Be Transformed: Guard Your Heart

  Aug 17, 202651 min

  Pastor Matt opens with a vivid image: Jesus doesn't want to be a guest in your life, peeking into only the rooms you're comfortable showing Him. He wants your heart to become His home — every room, every closet, every hidden corner. The heart, as Pastor Matt explains, is not simply the seat of emotions, but the command center of life itself. As Proverbs 4:23 puts it, "Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life." Your words, relationships, decisions, and habits all flow downstream from whatever is happening in your heart. The danger, Pastor Matt warns, is that our hearts are never neutral — they are always worshiping something. Jesus makes this clear in Matthew 6 when He says, "Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Whatever sits on the throne of your heart will ultimately direct your life. Even good things — family, success, comfort, approval — become dangerous when they become ultimate things. And as Jeremiah 17:9 soberly reminds us, the human heart left to itself is deceitful and desperately sick, incapable of fixing itself. But that's exactly where the gospel shines brightest. God promised through the prophet Ezekiel, "I will give you a new heart and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh" (Ezekiel 36:26). Pastor Matt calls this a heart transplant — and it's available to anyone who surrenders to Jesus. Behavior modification alone will never produce lasting change. Only a transformed heart, made new by Jesus, can produce fruit that lasts.

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  3C: Is Your Phone Discipling Your Kids?

  Aug 12, 20261h 18mS1

  Pastor Matt Sturdevant and the pastoral team at Hope Church gather around the table to dig deeper into Sunday's sermon on winning the battle for the mind. The central text, Romans 12:2, calls believers not to be conformed to the world but to be transformed by the renewing of their minds. As the Phillips translation puts it, "Do not let the world around you squeeze you into its own mold, but let God remold your minds from within." The team walks through a practical "discipleship audit," asking honest questions: What gets the first word of your day? What gets the most time? Where do you instinctively go when you have questions? The answers to those questions reveal who — or what — is truly discipling your mind. The conversation gets personal as the pastors share how social media, anxiety, and current events have each tested their own thought lives, and how returning to God's Word and Biblical community has made a real difference. Pastor Matt also challenges parents directly, pointing out that a parent's greatest failure with technology may not be what they give their kids, but what they passively allow. Devices aren't just entertainment — they are formation, shaping children's understanding of truth, identity, beauty, and value. Technological freedom, he argues, should never outpace a child's level of maturity and character. The team closes by getting practical about how to actually take thoughts captive, leaning on tools like the "Hey, Say, Pray, Obey" framework, the thought filter of Philippians 4:8, and the four ordinary means of grace: Scripture, prayer, Biblical community, and obedience. None of it is dramatic or flashy — it's the same faithful, boring-but-it-works training, day after day. As Pastor Brian puts it, keeping the Shield of Faith raised isn't a one-time act; it's a practiced discipline, strengthened over time through consistent, ordinary faithfulness.

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  Winning the Battle for Your Mind

  Aug 10, 20261 hour

  Pastor Matt opens with a penetrating question: "Could there be a lie influencing your thoughts, attitudes, or decisions that you have never recognized as a lie?" Building on the previous week's foundation of faith, he turns the focus to what comes next in the Christian journey — transformation. Anchoring the message in Romans 12:1-2, he makes the case that God transforms our lives by renewing our minds, and that lasting change doesn't begin with trying harder, but with thinking differently. Salvation, he reminds us, happens in a moment, but transformation happens over a lifetime. Pastor Matt draws a sharp contrast between two forces described in Romans 12:2 — being conformed by the world, which presses in on us from the outside in, and being transformed by God, who works from the inside out. He warns that our minds are always being shaped, and that every day we are being discipled — either by the world or by the Word. The world, he explains, disciples us to follow our feelings and fit into culture, while the Word disciples us to follow Jesus and be transformed by His truth. Like Eve in Genesis 3, who accepted a lie before she ever reached for the fruit, we are reminded that long before a sin becomes visible, it usually becomes believable. To help his congregation fight back, Pastor Matt offers a practical three-step battle plan: identify the lie, confront the lie with truth, and continue to take every thought captive (2 Cor. 10:5). He also outlines four ordinary but powerful ways God renews our minds — Scripture, prayer, Biblical community, and obedience — and challenges the congregation to move from merely trying to actually training for godliness, as Paul urges Timothy in 1 Timothy 4:7. The sermon closes with an invitation to write down the lie you battle most and pair it with a truth from God's Word, because freedom begins when God's voice becomes louder than the lies we've been believing.

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  The 3C Podcast: Our First Episode Ever!

  Aug 5, 20261h 20m

  Pastor Matt and the team at Hope Church launch the 3C Podcast as a companion to their Sunday messages, diving deeper into ideas that didn't fully fit the sermon or deserve more unpacking. The first episode picks up from a message on Biblical faith, built around the big idea that faith is not simply believing the right things about Jesus, but responding to him with a trust that renews the mind, transforms the heart, and deploys the life. Pastor Matt draws a sharp distinction between historical or intellectual belief and saving faith, pointing to James 2:19 — "even the demons believe and shudder" — to show that knowing facts about God is a far cry from belonging to him. The conversation gets refreshingly practical as the pastors share personal stories of what "everyday faith" actually looks like — trusting God through a daughter's gymnastics injury, releasing control over a college-bound teenager's decisions, and dying to self in the middle of an ordinary parenting moment. They also walk through a spiritual health self-assessment introduced on Sunday, encouraging listeners not to obsess over their score or compare themselves to others, but to use it as a baseline — a starting point to ask better questions, identify next steps, and measure growth when the assessment is revisited at the end of the series. The goal, as Pastor Matt puts it, is simple: the version of you today should look more like Jesus than the version of you yesterday.

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