Glorifying God by making mature, multiplying, world-changing disciples of Jesus who exude Gospel hope!

A coke and a smile. Peanut butter and jelly. Cookies and ice cream. There are certain things that just GO together. So it's INTERESTING that Mother Theresa was KNOWN for her pervasive and LIFE-giving SMILE in the midst of serving in the overwhelmingly destitute poverty of Calcutta, India in the name of Jesus. She famously said, "We must always greet one another with a smile, for it is the beginning of love." When a U.S. Senator visited her and observed the unimaginable poverty and the masses of people she poured her life into so that they could recover or unfortunately die with dignity, he asked her, "How can you bear the load without being crushed by it?" Mother Theresa said to him, "My dear Senator, I am not called to be successful, I am called to be faithful." Faithful. Mother Theresa was faithful... and joyful. She was tapped into the very Presence of He Who is faithful. When the multitudes of oppressed Jews in Jesus' day, seeing Him as the long awaited second-coming of King David, expected Him to charge into Rome and Leonidus-style LIBERATE God's chosen people from their oppressors... Jesus told them a parable that corrected their misunderstanding. He expressed to them that He would in fact Liberate and Reign... but not in the way or the timing that they expected. He would first be unconventionally crowned King, and begin growing His Kingdom through on-the-ground investment from afar. And after a loooooong time, He would return with a fantastic reward for His servants who were faithful, and a fearful retribution for His enemies. "Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love." -Mother Theresa .................... If this message adds value to your life, hit that like button, subscribe, and share with someone you care about. May God BLESS you! Hope City Sermons is a ministry of Hope City Fellowship, an authentically Christian, intentionally-diverse church based in Asheville, North Carolina that officially launched in November 2021. Our mission- "Glorifying God by making mature, multiplying, world-changing disciples of Jesus who exude Gospel-hope!" To learn more or to support our ministry, visit our website at hopecityfellowship.org. ............. #HopeHelpAndReconciliation #HopeCityFellowship #PastorJazzionCathcart #JazzCathcart

The price of progress and God's purpose is extremely HIGH! But it's far LESS than staying STUCK. That is what WEB Du Bois was saying when he said, "The price of liberty is less than the cost of repression." Born three years after President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated for signing the Emancipation Proclamation, Du Bois knew that the path towards progress, equality, and opportunity was to be tremendously arduous. But he didn't let that stop him from becoming the first black person to ever receive a PhD from Harvard University less than thirty years later, and to go on to become one of American history's greatest intellects, activists, and change agents. Jacob fell in love with Rachel at first SIGHT! But it cost him 14 YEARS of LABOR to pay for her marriage dowry. He was tricked and treated unfairly in the process. Yet Moses reports for us, "But his love for her was so strong that it seemed to him but a few days.” - Genesis 29:20b Jacob points forward to another Man who did the unTHINKABLE in order to get the bride His heart was full of love for, and had to navigate not getting what He deserved in the process. The price of progress and God's purpose is extremely HIGH! But it's far LESS than staying STUCK. .................... If this message adds value to your life, hit that like button, subscribe, and share with someone you care about. May God BLESS you! Hope City Sermons is a ministry of Hope City Fellowship, an authentically Christian, intentionally-diverse church based in Asheville, North Carolina that officially launched in November 2021. Our mission- "Glorifying God by bringing hope, help, and reconciliation through Christ!" To learn more or to support our ministry, visit our website at hopecityfellowship.org. ............. #HopeHelpAndReconciliation #HopeCityFellowship #PastorJazzionCathcart #JazzCathcart

"Zacchaeus quickly climbed down and took Jesus to his house in great excitement and joy. But the people were displeased. 'He has gone to be the guest of a notorious sinner,' they grumbled.'" Luke 19:6-7 ..................... If this message adds value to your life, hit that like button, subscribe, and share with someone you care about. May God BLESS you! Hope City Sermons is a ministry of Hope City Fellowship, an authentically Christian, intentionally-diverse church based in Asheville, North Carolina that officially launched in November 2021. Our mission- "Glorifying God by bringing hope, help, and reconciliation through Christ!" To learn more or to support our ministry, visit our website at hopecityfellowship.org. ............. #HopeHelpAndReconciliation #HopeCityFellowship #PastorJazzionCathcart #JazzCathcart

"He was oppressed and treated harshly / yet he never said a word / He was led like a lamb to the slaughter / And as a sheep is silent before the shearers/ he did not open his mouth.." -Isaiah 53:7 ..................... If this message adds value to your life, hit that like button, subscribe, and share with someone you care about. May God BLESS you! Hope City Sermons is a ministry of Hope City Fellowship, an authentically Christian, intentionally-diverse church based in Asheville, North Carolina that officially launched in November 2021. Our mission- "Glorifying God by bringing hope, help, and reconciliation through Christ!" To learn more or to support our ministry, visit our website at hopecityfellowship.org. ............. #HopeHelpAndReconciliation #HopeCityFellowship #PastorJazzionCathcart #JazzCathcart

"Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not an earthly kingdom. If it were, My followers would fight to keep Me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders. But My Kingdom is not of this world.” -The Gospel according to John 18:36 Politics are something ELSE! They divide families for Thanksgiving, and they create all KINDS of challenges to friend groups. But... they are inescapable. The question, how will we go ABOUT our politics. What's tricky about politics for Christians, is that the Kingdom of God and of His Christ is not political in nature... it's deeper than that. So there are sincere Christians on both sides of the aisle, all called to move the needle towards Christ. The stakes are extremelyyyyyyyyyy high. ..................... If this message adds value to your life, hit that like button, subscribe, and share with someone you care about. May God BLESS you! Hope City Sermons is a ministry of Hope City Fellowship, an authentically Christian, intentionally-diverse church based in Asheville, North Carolina that officially launched in November 2021. Our mission- "Glorifying God by bringing hope, help, and reconciliation through Christ!" To learn more or to support our ministry, visit our website at hopecityfellowship.org. ............. #HopeHelpAndReconciliation #HopeCityFellowship #PastorJazzionCathcart #JazzCathcart

"That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong." -2nd Corinthians 12:10 Mannnnnnnnn LISTEN. Before I had ever even HEARD of pre-blessed chicken and waffle fries at Chic-fi-la, I was team Kentucky Fried Chicken all DAY! For a season of my childhood, I actually grew up directly across the street from a Bojangles and a KFC. Yes, I lived at 526 N. New Hope Rd in Gastonia, North Carolina and to this DAY, there is STILL a Bojangles and KFC across the street! My auntie worked at the Bojangles and would bring my friends and I chicken strips and seasoned fries, sometimes twice a WEEK! But when I had it MY way… I would have the KFC Original RECIPE! It was truly SOMETHING about that secret blend of 11 herbs and spices that ministered to ya boi’s SOUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I literally smile THINKING about those times, lol! KFC has a real clean, concise version of the story they share in their marketing material, about how Colonel Sanders perfected the recipe and began the restuarant. Harlan Sanders was born in 1890. He left his home in Indiana at the age of 13 to enter the big world of opportunity and create his fortune. After short term stints working- among other things, as a farmer, firefighter, railroad worker, and insurance salesman, in the 1930s he was running a service station in Corbin Kentucky. After finding that his hungry customers had nowhere to eat for miles, he began selling fried chicken meals like the ones he had growing up. The birth of the titan Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise was upon us and the rest is history!!! But there is more in that history worth knowing! KFC doesn’t share some of the most potent details because customers are focused on jumping into a bucket of chicken! But it turns out, the REASON Colonel Sanders ever learned to cook in the FIRST place was because his father died when young Harlan was 5 years old, and he HAD to cook in order to feed his siblings while his mother worked multiple jobs to make ends meet. The secret blend of 11 herbs and spices that would change America, was strength being perfected in the midst of weakness. And that’s exactly what the Apostle Paul said was his recipe for the Anointing on his incomparably powerful life and ministry. ..................... If this message adds value to your life, hit that like button, subscribe, and share with someone you care about. May God BLESS you! Hope City Sermons is a ministry of Hope City Fellowship, an authentically Christian, intentionally-diverse church based in Asheville, North Carolina that officially launched in November 2021. Our mission- "Glorifying God by bringing hope, help, and reconciliation through Christ!" To learn more or to support our ministry, visit our website at hopecityfellowship.org. ............. #HopeHelpAndReconciliation #HopeCityFellowship #PastorJazzionCathcart #JazzCathcart

"But whoever looks intently into the Perfect Law that gives freedom, and continues in it- not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it- they will be blessed in what they do." -James 1:25 Simba, now a young adult lion- looking down into a small pool of water and seeing his own reflection hears the joyful, jovial baboon Rifiki tell him gently, “Look haaaaaaarder.” Simba looks more intensely into the mirror and begins to see and hear his father Mufasa speaking to him through the reflection. “You have forgotten me Simba. When you forgot who YOU are, you forgot ME… You must take your place in the Circle of Life Simba… You are my Son… Rememberrrrrr.” Simba is deeply moved by what he sees and hears and realizes that he must now go back and face his past, and a powerful foe- the lion Scar who destroyed his family. But he becomes afraid to do so. He says, “I can’t go back and face my past. The past is the PAST! It doesn’t matter!” Rifiki the priest quickly smacks him over the head with his staff! Simba says, “HEY!!!!! What was THAT for?!!!!!!” “It was in the past so it doesn’t matter!” He swings again, this time Simba DUCKS! Rifiki says, “The way I see it, you can run from it, or you can learn from it.” James, the half-brother of Jesus Christ- critic turned Christ Ambassador via his brother’s literal Resurrection from the dead… told his readers, “When you look intensely into the mirror of God’s Word, you will begin to hear the voice of your Father in Heaven speaking to you”... “and you will be powerfully blessed if you not only HEAR Him, but Do what He is says.” Principles: 1) Righteousness 2) Ridiculous 3) Religious ...................... If this message adds value to your life, hit that like button, subscribe, and share with someone you care about. May God BLESS you! Hope City Sermons is a ministry of Hope City Fellowship, an authentically Christian, intentionally-diverse church based in Asheville, North Carolina that officially launched in November 2021. Our mission- "Glorifying God by bringing hope, help, and reconciliation through Christ!" To learn more or to support our ministry, visit our website at hopecityfellowship.org. ............. #HopeHelpAndReconciliation #HopeCityFellowship #PastorJazzionCathcart #JazzCathcart

Dating... Today many WELL-intended people, including those who love GOD and aspire to follow JESUS go about finding a romantic companion the same way they go about finding a religious community... all wrong. ... without GOD and without GRACE at the center. ................ If this message adds value to your life, hit that like button, subscribe, and share with someone you care about. May God BLESS you! Hope City Sermons is a ministry of Hope City Fellowship, an authentically Christian, intentionally-diverse church based in Asheville, North Carolina that officially launched in November 2021. Our mission- "Bringing hope, help, and reconciliation through Christ!" To learn more or to support our ministry, visit our website at hopecityfellowship.org. ............. #HopeHelpAndReconciliation #HopeCityFellowship #PastorJazzionCathcart #JazzCathcart

Honey I Shrunk the Kids was a blockbuster HIT in 1989! It tells the fantastic fictional story of a scientist who accidentally shrunk his children and a few of the neighborhood kids with a shrink ray that he hadn't quite dialed in yet. When he shrunk the kids and they are unknowingly swept up and put into a garbage bag and taken to the street for the weekly pickup, they make their way out of the garbage and into the front yard, but now have the overwhelming task of trekking through the yard, into the house, and up to their dad's attic laboratory again in order to be zapped back to size- but must navigate monstrous bumble bees, angry ants, and the deluge producing sprinkler system along the way. Although at times they absolutely wanted to give up, the need and the mission were far, far, far too great to give up. They needed strength, encouragement, and wisdom. And that's what we see going on within Hebrews chapter 10, and our lives today. Jewish people in the first century who became followers of the Messiah Jesus found themselves overwhelmed at their opposition and adversity. Some of them were tempted to shrink back and to turn their backs on Jesus and return to Judaism in order to get away from the overwhelming adversity they faced... ridicule, rejection, getting their homes and assets confiscated, and imprisonment. However, the writer to the Hebrews encourages them, and challenges them... Jesus didn't shrink back in coming to SAVE us, and we can not and will not shrink back in living for and serving HIM! He goes on to insist that they practice a fundamental of the faith in order to be strengthened and encouraged and equipped for the adversity they faced... Faithfully, and consistently locking in on... Church attendance. Passage: Hebrews 10:19-39 Points: 1) Hard 2) Help ................ If this message adds value to your life, hit that like button, subscribe, and share with someone you care about. May God BLESS you! Hope City Sermons is a ministry of Hope City Fellowship, an authentically Christian, intentionally-diverse church based in Asheville, North Carolina that officially launched in November 2021. Our mission- "Bringing hope, help, and reconciliation through Christ!" To learn more or to support our ministry, visit our website at hopecityfellowship.org. ............. #HopeHelpAndReconciliation #HopeCityFellowship #PastorJazzionCathcart #JazzCathcart