One Hope Outreach THE HUB Newsletter March 2025

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Dear friends and partners:

To all our friends and partners, thank you for your prayers and generous financial support in all the arms of ministry that One Hope Outreach is involved in. Our production of the gospel message can be seen seven days a week on Facebook and Youtube, and one time weekly on Now T.V. The Now T.V. broadcast is currently airing at 8:30 A.M. each Saturday morning. Other ways of listening can be found on X, MeWe, TikTok and our Podcast: Podpoint.com/Table-Talk-Time. One Hope Outreach internet radio station is nearing the final stages of planning and programming. The goal for the new station is to provide 24 hours a day broadcasting of music, preaching, and teaching the gospel message. Announcements of the radio station name and link will soon be seen on Facebook and other media outlets. Once again, thank you for your support as we work in the fields of harvest, reaping for the kingdom of God.

What are you thinking? Have you ever thought about your thoughts? Have you ever asked the question, why am I thinking this way. Or, why am I thinking along this line of thought? What triggered this or that thought? Or, maybe, where did that thought come from?

Thoughts are a common occurrence for human beings. Every person has been given the responsibility of stewardship over his or her own thoughts. Thoughts are inputs into the mind as seeds or suggestions that can lead to belief. Our beliefs are like a rudder on a ship guiding our lives to embrace what we believe to be good, bad, acceptable or unacceptable.  It is therefore, imperative that thoughts be monitored or filtered to determine what will be allowed or disallowed in the silent world of our thinking.

Throughout the existence of the human race; history reports that men of all walks of life have often yielded to wrong thoughts, which produced the wrong course of action, which in turn produced bad results. Many are the stories of calamity, tragedy and heartache that sprouted from bad thought seeds sown, believed and conceived.

God desires that mankind use the mind to reason, reflect, and make decisions as well as form, discover, and conceive ideas that have their mooring of a Biblical perspective.

The Bible teaches that the mind is to be renewed by the study and practice of God’s written and spoken word (Romans 12:2). The benefits of a renewed mind are that it has the input of a moral code determined by God. The renewed mind has a solid foundation of God’s moral law which enables it to determine with certainty what thoughts are good or bad.  

The Bible is the inspired written word of God that speaks to us as we read or hear it preached. It is His voice speaking through it’s printed pages. I invite you to open its pages and read. It may change the way you are thinking.

-Marvin Smith 

One Hope Outreach THE HUB Newsletter February 2025

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Dear friends and partners:

It is great to be alive in 2025. We have never passed this way before but it is a good time to count our blessings and continue to serve the Lord Jesus Christ with all of our being. A great big thank you for your love, prayers and financial support as we work together in God’s kingdom business. In addition to our current media outlets. On February 1st, 2025, 8:30 A.M. One Hope Outreach began broadcasting it’s Church Without Walls segment on Now TV, a streaming broadcast that can be received on Roku, Apple TV and other outlets.

We are excited about working in the great fields of harvest and look forward to what more God has in store for 2025.

Who do you say that Jesus is?

13 Now when Jesus came to the district of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples, "Who do people say the Son of man is?" 14 They told him, "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." 15 He said to them, "And who do you say I am?"

Matt 16:13-15 (MOFF)

Some say He was a perfect man, the son of Zechariah and that He was not born of a virgin and was not the son of God. Others say before He lived on Earth, he was Michael the archangel and was not God. Some say He is separate from God the Father and that He was created as a spirit being by the Father and Mother in heaven. Still others say He was not the Christ but displayed the Christ idea, that Christ means perfection, not a person. Others contend that He was a man who had Christ consciousness and that “Christ” is a state of perfection in every person. He is considered by some as a spiritual teacher who taught love and compassion. Then there are others who say He is not one true God, was not and is not a Savior but rather a spiritual model and that He did not physically rise from the dead, but rose to a higher spiritual dimension. Some say His death did not atone for sins and He did not rise from the dead. These are all belief statements of eight different cults or religions that exist in our world today

Biblical Christianity declares Jesus to be Co-equal with God the Father and the Holy Spirit and is the second person of the Trinity. He has always existed and will never cease to exist and will forever reign as Lord and King over all dominions. He is the only way to the Father, eternal life and salvation. He was born of a virgin and lived on earth as a man for approximately thirty-three and a half years. He died on a cross according to God’s plan, as full sacrifice and payment for our sins. He rose from the dead physically, immortal on the third day after crucifixion. For forty days He was seen by more than five hundred eyewitnesses. He was touched by human hands and ate meals with His followers. He physically ascended to heaven as eyewitnesses watched Him rise from the earth and disappear into the clouds above. Jesus will come again visibly and physically at the end of the world’s age to establish God’s kingdom and judge the world.

The apostle John, in his gospel account identifies Jesus Christ as the source of all spiritual life and light for the one that believes.

The life of Jesus is the light that penetrates, overcomes and conquers the darkness. This life and light of Jesus removes the ignorance of the consequence of sin from the life of those who believe on Him. The Bible further says the person that refuses to believe is spiritually blinded by Satan.

“3 Even if my gospel is veiled, it is only veiled in the case of the perishing; 4 there the god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to prevent them seeing the light thrown by the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.” 2 Cor 4:3-4 (MOFF)

What about you, who do you say Jesus is? If you desire to know God, you must look to Jesus, He is the exact representation of God the Father. He is waiting on your prayer appeal to heaven to make Himself known to you.

-Marvin Smith   

One Hope Outreach THE HUB Newsletter January 2025

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Dear friends and partners:

It is great to be alive in 2025. Thank you for your prayers and support throughout the past years. We are now broadcasting seven days a week on several media platforms; Facebook, X, Mewe, TikTok, Youtube and podcast.com/tabletalktime. As we reach out to the harvest fields God continues to give increased opportunities to preach His kingdom message. We are happy to announce that One Hope Outreach Ministry has signed on to broadcast our programs on Now T.V. beginning early February. We will announce soon, how and when they can be viewed. Thank you for your continued support as we move forward into 2025.

Where you will spend eternity?

Do you know where you will spend eternity? Every person on planet earth will someday die and spend eternity somewhere. When your day comes to depart this life on earth, do you know for sure what your destination will be?

According to the Bible, there are two possible choices of eternal existence; Heaven or Hell. Heaven is described as a paradise, destiny and dwelling place with God for those that are born again. There, all tears are wiped from the eyes and every sorrow and pain is removed; for the former things have passed away (Rev. 21:1-4), and the redeemed enjoy the peaceful presence of God forever. Hell, on the other hand is described as separation from the presence of God, a place of weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth (Matt. 8:12), a place of pain and anguish, where the soul of man never dies and will languish there in misery for all eternity (Luke 16:19-26-Mark 9:44-48).

The Bible says, “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23). All of mankind is born with the moral disease called sin. The inbred sin nature of man keeps him separated from a relationship with a Holy God. Man, within himself is without remedy for the sin problem. For the rescue of man from the sin dilemma, God provided His own solution. He sent His son Jesus Christ as a redeemer to purchase man unto Himself.

Sin is the reason Jesus came. He was crucified, buried and raised from the dead to effect reconciliation between sinful man and a Holy God. Through His sacrificial death, Jesus paid the ransom for man to be released from the penalty of sin and the dominion of sins. Once that price was paid, the sin problem was taken care of. Even though God sent Jesus to pay for the sin of man and even though He holds nothing against mankind; any person can still go to Hell. Every man is born a free moral agent and holds the right to choose his own destiny. That is a free choice of every individual. The Bible says that no man can see nor enter the kingdom of heaven unless he is born again (John 3:3-8).  Jesus’ first message in the gospel of Matthew, was “repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matt. 4:17). Repentance is a decision that results in a change of mind (a renunciation of and reversal from sin) and a submission to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

There is no birth into the kingdom of God without hearing the call to salvation (This article that you are reading is that call) renouncing of one’s sin and turning from sin to Christ the Savior (Acts 3:19).

Salvation, receiving eternal life, or being born again (all synonymous terms) does not come by doing good deeds, living a good moral life or even becoming a member of a church. The Bible says there is only one way to be saved and that is to be born again.

Jesus’ message of repentance and a call to salvation poses an inescapable decision to every person. Will you repent and receive Jesus as Savior and Lord? Settle that single most important question of your life. Pray the following prayer, sincerely, from your heart and receive Jesus as your Savior.

God, I come to you in Jesus’ name. You said in the Bible, “If I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe with the heart that you raised Him from the dead, I will be saved.” For it is believing in my heart that I am made right with God, and it is by confessing with my mouth that I am saved. I believe in my heart that Jesus died for my sins and was raised from the dead. I confess out loud and publicly that Jesus is my Lord. I repent of my sin and will live for Him forever, amen!  

-Marvin Smith 

[Editor’s note: This article first appeared on One Hope Outreach ministry web page under  “prayer request” “Receiving salvation” (by Marvin Smith) and is adapted for this January 2025 edition of “The Hub” newsletter].