Mary was "blessed" for the same reason we can be blessed! Mary was a godly young woman, engaged to a descendant of King David, visited by an angel. But the reason we all consider her to be "blessed" is that she had the Son of God living inside her. Well, can't we have that same blessing in a different way? What did Paul mean by the phrase, "Christ in you, the hope of glory?" Today Jim completes our discussion from Friday: The People of God are Joyful and Hopeful.Listen to Right Start Radio every Monday through Friday on WCVX 1160AM (Cincinnati, OH) at 9:30am, WHKC 91.5FM (Columbus, OH) at 5:00pm, WRFD 880AM (Columbus, OH) at 9:00am. Right Start can also be heard on One Christian Radio 107.7FM & 87.6FM in New Plymouth, New Zealand. You can purchase a copy of this message, unsegmented for broadcasting and in its entirety, for $7 on a single CD by calling +1 (800) 984-2313, and of course you can always listen online or download the message for free.

Most of us know the joy of December 25th. What if we could have the same joy on December 26th? Or August 11th? If you know Christ only as the "baby in the manger," your Jesus is too small! If you know Him as the Teacher, the Healer, the Savior, the Risen Son of God... well, He is even bigger than that! And knowing Him as He is will fill us with glad confidence. Here's Jim to open the message, The People of God are Joyful and Hopeful.Listen to Right Start Radio every Monday through Friday on WCVX 1160AM (Cincinnati, OH) at 9:30am, WHKC 91.5FM (Columbus, OH) at 5:00pm, WRFD 880AM (Columbus, OH) at 9:00am. Right Start can also be heard on One Christian Radio 107.7FM & 87.6FM in New Plymouth, New Zealand. You can purchase a copy of this message, unsegmented for broadcasting and in its entirety, for $7 on a single CD by calling +1 (800) 984-2313, and of course you can always listen online or download the message for free.

The people of God are caring...and courageous. Those two words, "caring" and "courageous," are an odd pair, aren't they? We think of the people with courage out on the front lines where the battle is most fierce, while the caring folks are back in the hospitals doing their work of mercy. But, since the church has been compared to both an army and a hospital, maybe we should expect to find bravery as well as compassion in her midst. Would outsiders see both in you and me?Listen to Right Start Radio every Monday through Friday on WCVX 1160AM (Cincinnati, OH) at 9:30am, WHKC 91.5FM (Columbus, OH) at 5:00pm, WRFD 880AM (Columbus, OH) at 9:00am. Right Start can also be heard on One Christian Radio 107.7FM & 87.6FM in New Plymouth, New Zealand. You can purchase a copy of this message, unsegmented for broadcasting and in its entirety, for $7 on a single CD by calling +1 (800) 984-2313, and of course you can always listen online or download the message for free.

"A man with one watch knows what time it is, and a man with two watches could never be sure." That old quip about timepieces comes to mind when we see Christians trying to live their lives both by the Word of God, and by the whims of culture. When your authorities disagree, which do you follow? Let's think some more about Colossians 3. Jim will make the case that The People of God are Scripture-Centered.Listen to Right Start Radio every Monday through Friday on WCVX 1160AM (Cincinnati, OH) at 9:30am, WHKC 91.5FM (Columbus, OH) at 5:00pm, WRFD 880AM (Columbus, OH) at 9:00am. Right Start can also be heard on One Christian Radio 107.7FM & 87.6FM in New Plymouth, New Zealand. You can purchase a copy of this message, unsegmented for broadcasting and in its entirety, for $7 on a single CD by calling +1 (800) 984-2313, and of course you can always listen online or download the message for free.

Are you giving off a pleasing aroma... or an unholy stench? The Holy Spirit living in us will produce fruit - beautiful, sweet-smelling, refreshing fruit. It isn't something we have to work at; it's just our new nature as a "planting of the Lord." It's one of the 4 evidences of the Spirit that Jim is counting with us. Yesterday we started with being Born of the Spirit. We'll complete the list today, in the second half of a message called, The People of God are Spirit-Energized.Listen to Right Start Radio every Monday through Friday on WCVX 1160AM (Cincinnati, OH) at 9:30am, WHKC 91.5FM (Columbus, OH) at 5:00pm, WRFD 880AM (Columbus, OH) at 9:00am. Right Start can also be heard on One Christian Radio 107.7FM & 87.6FM in New Plymouth, New Zealand. You can purchase a copy of this message, unsegmented for broadcasting and in its entirety, for $7 on a single CD by calling +1 (800) 984-2313, and of course you can always listen online or download the message for free.

"This is not a pipe." René Magritte painted a picture of a tobacco pipe and captioned it, Ceci n'est pas une pipe - "This is not a pipe." He started people thinking about what he called, "The Treachery of Images." When is a rose not a rose, but only a likeness of a rose? When is a toaster just a hunk of scrap metal? And when is a "Christian" merely a hollow facsimile of the real thing? Jim's sermon is called, The People of God are Spirit-Energized.Listen to Right Start Radio every Monday through Friday on WCVX 1160AM (Cincinnati, OH) at 9:30am, WHKC 91.5FM (Columbus, OH) at 5:00pm, WRFD 880AM (Columbus, OH) at 9:00am. Right Start can also be heard on One Christian Radio 107.7FM & 87.6FM in New Plymouth, New Zealand. You can purchase a copy of this message, unsegmented for broadcasting and in its entirety, for $7 on a single CD by calling +1 (800) 984-2313, and of course you can always listen online or download the message for free.

When "that guy" shows up at the door. You know, the guy who burned you on that business deal; the gal who torpedoed your reputation; the one person you never thought you'd see again. He's here. And he's got some kind of letter in his hands. That was the kind of day Philemon was having when he opened the door and saw his runaway slave, Onesimus. Our lesson in Colossians will take a side trip as we get a case study of the principle that Forgiven People Forgive.Listen to Right Start Radio every Monday through Friday on WCVX 1160AM (Cincinnati, OH) at 9:30am, WHKC 91.5FM (Columbus, OH) at 5:00pm, WRFD 880AM (Columbus, OH) at 9:00am. Right Start can also be heard on One Christian Radio 107.7FM & 87.6FM in New Plymouth, New Zealand. You can purchase a copy of this message, unsegmented for broadcasting and in its entirety, for $7 on a single CD by calling +1 (800) 984-2313, and of course you can always listen online or download the message for free.

One of the things we have to bear, as Christians - is Christians! Paul doesn't sugar-coat the situation in his letter to the Colossians. Sometimes we're just going to have to put up with each other! We are family, after all. But, unlike our "BC" selves, we now have the resources to enable that patience.Listen to Right Start Radio every Monday through Friday on WCVX 1160AM (Cincinnati, OH) at 9:30am, WHKC 91.5FM (Columbus, OH) at 5:00pm, WRFD 880AM (Columbus, OH) at 9:00am. Right Start can also be heard on One Christian Radio 107.7FM & 87.6FM in New Plymouth, New Zealand. You can purchase a copy of this message, unsegmented for broadcasting and in its entirety, for $7 on a single CD by calling +1 (800) 984-2313, and of course you can always listen online or download the message for free.

Hello, dead people! Paul's message to the Colossians is that they died... and were raised with Christ. And this should produce some dramatic changes, to say the least! Yesterday we began studying Colossians, chapter 3, and the first thing we noticed is that the Apostle told them to "Set your mind on things above, not on things of the earth;" or as Jim has put it, be "Heavenly Focused." There are two more distinctives that should also be birthmarks, as it were, of the people of God.Listen to Right Start Radio every Monday through Friday on WCVX 1160AM (Cincinnati, OH) at 9:30am, WHKC 91.5FM (Columbus, OH) at 5:00pm, WRFD 880AM (Columbus, OH) at 9:00am. Right Start can also be heard on One Christian Radio 107.7FM & 87.6FM in New Plymouth, New Zealand. You can purchase a copy of this message, unsegmented for broadcasting and in its entirety, for $7 on a single CD by calling +1 (800) 984-2313, and of course you can always listen online or download the message for free.

What are the marks of a good church? By a "good" church we mean not just an authentic fellowship of believers - that would be rare enough - but also a church that's attractive to someone who's genuinely interested in real Life from the true God. What signs would such a person look for - consciously or unconsciously? Jim will help us think about that as he opens a new series in the book of Colossians. Both the sermon and the series are called, The People of God. Here's Part 1.Listen to Right Start Radio every Monday through Friday on WCVX 1160AM (Cincinnati, OH) at 9:30am, WHKC 91.5FM (Columbus, OH) at 5:00pm, WRFD 880AM (Columbus, OH) at 9:00am. Right Start can also be heard on One Christian Radio 107.7FM & 87.6FM in New Plymouth, New Zealand. You can purchase a copy of this message, unsegmented for broadcasting and in its entirety, for $7 on a single CD by calling +1 (800) 984-2313, and of course you can always listen online or download the message for free.