-Galatians 3:27

There is a lot of psychology in how we dress. 

Miucia Prada, granddaughter of the founder of the Prada brand said, "What you wear is how you PRESENT yourself to the world.” "Primetime" Deion Sanders famously said, "When you look good, you feel good. When you feel good, you play good. And when you play good, they PAY good!"

In this sermon, Pastor Jazz agrees and also suggests that what you wear says something about the way you PERCEIVE your own self. He contends that it is also a powerful means by which we position ourselves inwardly for success and to seize the day. 

But this conversation gets most interesting and impactful in its relationship to the Gospel. The Apostle Paul says that all believers in Christ have been given the freshest fit known in existence... the perfect righteousness of Christ Jesus. This gives us total access to the Banquet Hall of God Himself and powerfully shapes how we live out our day to day lives for His glory.

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Hope City Fellowship is an authentically Christian, intentionally-diverse church plant 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 carry Gospel-hope!"

To learn more or to support our ministry, visit our website at hopecityfellowship.org

-Romans 12:18

On September the 4th, 1957, a fifteen year old African American young woman named Dorothy Counts walked into Harry Hardin High School in Charlotte, North Carolina along with the three other black teenagers for the first time in the newly de-segregated Southern school. She was met by a crowd of white students as well as adults spewing racial slurs, throwing stones, and literally spitting at her.

Forty-nine years later, in 2006... a Sunday School teacher at Assurance United Methodist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina asked his senior citizen class members if anyone had a story to tell about dealing with a sin of omission. 

Woody Cooper raised his hand and said two words: "Dorothy Counts". 

He had been in the crowd on that fateful day that Dorothy Counts walked into Harry Hardin High School, was actually filmed making a monkey face at her, and had been consumed with conviction and deep regret for 49 years. 

What followed became a story of repentance, reaching out, and reconciliation that mirrors the powerful story of Jacob and Esau reuniting and finding peace all the way back in Genesis chapter thirty-three.  

In this sermon, Pastor Jazz speaks on how fulfilling Jesus' call to be peacemakers requires mastering peace within oneself... by virtue of encountering the Prince of Peace Himself.

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Hope City Fellowship is an authentically Christian, intentionally-diverse church plant 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 carry Gospel-hope!"

I started this podcast in part so that my audience could have a window into people with different convictions having conversations like this one about the big issues.

I am a passionate Follower of Jesus... and I take His loving command to share the Gospel and to tactfully challenge people and perspectives in order to shine the light of God's Kingdom and grace seriously! 

The video you are seeing is the first of what I hope will be MORE with Karen who is a Unitarian Universalist... meaning she doesn't believe there is a Hell, or a Devil, or that Jesus is the Divine Son of God, or the only way to God. 

Karen, THANK you for having a discussion with me. God bless you and may He help us all come to know truth and build our life on it. 

Let me know what you'd like to see us engage in this podcast next time!

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 carry Gospel-hope!"

To learn more or to support our ministry, visit our website at hopecityfellowship.org

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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 carry Gospel-hope!"

To learn more or to support our ministry, visit our website at hopecityfellowship.org

“I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up."

Jesus asked a man who had become debilitatingly sick and lived as a beggar- barely scraping by for thirty eight YEARS... a powerful and offensive question.

 "Do you want to get well?"

Let's be honest. It's easier to stay stuck in our station of life and to remain in our comfortable dysfunction than it is to get up and walk in all that God has for us. That's because getting up requires sacrifice and an overhaul of all that we've come to experience as our home and identity.

However, Jesus reveals that God is in the business of provoking our comforts and commitments if they keep us from Him and all that He has intended for us and for His glory. 

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Message by Pastor Jazz Cathcart, November 2025, during a Hope City Fellowship Sunday Service.

Hope City Fellowship is 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 carry Gospel-hope!"

To learn more or to support our ministry, visit our website at hopecityfellowship.org

We are in week one of a fresh new series called "Sign Language: The Gospel according to John". There was nobody this side of Glory closer to the Jesus than John. And in his biography of Jesus' life, ministry, death, and resurrection, he shares seven of Jesus' miracles that he says were "signs"... miracles with a message... supernatural exploits that point to something beyond the miracle itself and reveal something significant about Jesus and His salvation. 

The first miracle was Jesus attending a wedding and reception where the wine supply ran completely out. 

What happened next reveals that reaching for Jesus is far superior than reaching for that drink. God sent His Son into the world because the Messiah brings true recreation... fun, gladness of heart, pleasure, peace, and the means to deal with our pain- without the grief and regret.

Message by Pastor Jazz Cathcart, November 2025, during a Hope City Fellowship Sunday Service in Asheville, NC.

Hope City Fellowship - An authentically Christian, intentionally-diverse church plant 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 carry Gospel-hope!"

To learn more or to support our ministry, visit our website at hopecityfellowship.org

Try starting your day with these. 

Listen to them, repeat them in your mind and heart, and consider recording them in your own voice and listening to them each day.

You will be BLESSED.

May God give you grace to grow, thrive, and prosper in His purposes for your life. 

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Affirmations and Declarations to Read Out Loud:

Today is going to be a great day....

I have been carefully and wonderfully made.

I am deeply loved.

I have been adopted by the Triune God.

God not only loves me, He really likes me.

God is good. He is the righteous King of the universe and He is my dad. I am His royal child… Because of Christ I am royalty in His Kingdom.

God has a future and a hope for my life.

God has a plan and a purpose just for me.

I have been entirely forgiven of all my sin, mistakes, and regrets through Jesus’ sacrifice.

I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.

I am a masterpiece... God’s own masterpiece... hand-crafted and created NEW in Christ to do great things.

I am built for glory- to show-off the greatness of God through the way He specifically created and is crafting me.

I am anointed.

I am gifted.

God is powerful through me.

I am a city on a hill that cannot be hidden.

I am the light of the world shining the glorious light of Christ.

I am blessed. 

I am blessed in the city, I am blessed in the field.

I am blessed going out and I am blessed coming in.

I am highly favored.

I am the head and not the tail.

I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.

I have the mind of Christ.

I am an overcomer.

I am a winner.

I am MORE than a conqueror through Christ’s matchless presence in me.

I’m not a victim... I’m a vicTOR!

I can do absolutely all things... yes all things through the power of Christ living in me.

The Spirit of God is producing fruit in my life in increasing measure as I continue to yield to Him... love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

The wisdom of the Eternal God is available to me at all times... all I need to do is ask.

I have NOT been given a spirit of fear or of timidity... but of POWER, and of LOVE, and of a sound mind with self-control.

I have been entirely forgiven of all my sin, mistakes, and regrets through Jesus’ sacrifice.

God is GOOD!

He is the God of GRACE!

He is the God of LOVE!

He is the perfectly righteous and beautifully merciful God of the Gospel.

Because of Christ and His cross, He is my dad. I am his royal child… because of Christ I am royalty in His life-giving Kingdom.

I don’t pursue other people’s approval because my Almighty Father already approves me… in Christ! I don’t have to perform in any way for anyone- because my Dad already gives me a perfect 10! I don’t fear rejection from anyone because my Almighty Heavenly Father joyfully and passionately receives me. He not only loves me. He likes me.

He is God. He is GOOD! He is my dad. I am His royal child… because of Christ I am royalty in His Kingdom. The Kingdom of the God of the Gospel of Jesus.

"...but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God."

-1st Samuel 30:6c

In 2013, what happened to Harrison Okene of Nigeria"made international headlines. Serving as a cook on a tugboat off the coast of Nigeria, a massive wave hit the boat causing it to completely capsize and sink to the bottom of the ocean floor trapping Okene in an air pocket inside the vessel. Within minutes Harrison heard the voices of his eleven fellow crew members go deafly silent as they perished in the carnage. Minutes turned to hours, and then to three long days in the dark, cold, upside down world of the tugboat where Harrison had only a Coca-Cola and a prayer that somehow God could save Him. 

One can only imagine the feeling Okene had when deep sea divers searching for the boat came with light pouring from their head lamps and found him alive- rescuing him. 

Between the time that David was anointed to be Israel's next king, and the time where he was appointed to rule, David was constantly on the run from Saul's army. When a thug-militia of Amelekites raided his home village of Ziklag, kidnapping he and his men's wives and children, his once faithful men turned on him and deliberated killing him.

1st Samuel 30:6 says that David, on the brink of being completely overwhelmed and killed, "encouraged himself in the Lord His God" and found light, strength, and total salvation. 

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May God BLESS you!

Message by Pastor Jazz Cathcart in October 2025 during a Sunday Service at 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

God has placed divine assignments on your life. 

Yes, He is audacious and awesome enough to tie up the advancement of His Kingdom with the His kid's completing their individualized assignments. 

He's that good. 

And He considers you that important. 

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May God BLESS you!

Message by Pastor Jazz Cathcart in September 2025 during a Hope City Fellowship Sunday Service in Asheville, NC

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

Unfortunately my friend is WRONG. 

And we got to talk about it. 

In order for you to BECOME one of God's children, you have to understand that because of your SIN, you are actually one of His ENEMIES. 

But the Gospel is GREAT news for sinners!

"Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—"

-John 1:12

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Our society is on fire.  

Followers of Jesus have PRECISELY what our country, society, and souls need to squelch the flames.

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May God BLESS you!

Message by Pastor Jazzion Cathcart in September 2025 during a Hope City Fellowship Sunday Service in Asheville, NC

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

She asks, "How do you deal with all the hate? How do you not take others feelings as your identity?"

I believe that what I share in this video will add great value to your life...  especially those of you who- like my dear sister-queen, find yourself feeling moved to be much more bold and outspoken for Jesus Christ, His Kingdom, and God's purposes for YOUR life in this world. 

"Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but overcome evil with good." -Romans 12:21

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The cheesecake was to be picked up from a specific restaurant in Brooklyn. The cast mates were to walk all the way across the Brooklyn Bridge on FOOT, and back, in the middle of the night... an eight hour trek, in order to prove to Puffy and the MTV viewing audience that they were qualified to make the Band and become a part of the next big thing in hip hop. 

The Apostle Paul told the Colossians that they did not have to jump through hoops and humiliate themselves in order to become a part of the prestigious, world-impacting Kingdom of God because the Father Himself had already qualified them... and all of US... who respond correctly to the Gospel.

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Message by Pastor Jazzion Cathcart in August 2025 during a Hope City Fellowship Sunday Service in Asheville, NC

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!"

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God WINS. 

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Advisory: This video does contain some language and cursing that is not suitable for children to overhear. 

I did not want to overly edit and sanitize the conversation. Thank you for understanding and accommodating. 

If you have a question you would like me to answer on my podcast, or if you would like to engage with me on a recorded zoom call about a specific topic, shoot me an email and let's talk!   allthatjazzion@gmail.com

Pure evil was behind Charlie Kirk being shot at a university in Utah. But make no mistake about it... great is his reward in Heaven, justice will absolutely be served, and God & all His saints will absolutely win. 

King George VII made a prestigious appearance and gave hs royal blessing as an important hospital was being built. The momentous occasion was accompanied by beautiful music sang by school children who were wonderfully excited to have the honor of seeing the king of England himself. After the event concluded a schoolteacher noticed that one of her students was crying and she asked her, "What's the matter dear child? Didn't you see the king today?"

The girl replied, "Yes, but he didn't see me."

In this sermon, Pastor Jazz talks about how in the Kingdom of God, every single citizen is seen, known, and treasured by the High King of Heaven Himself and has immediate, intimate, and infinite access to Him. 

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 May God BLESS you!

Message by Pastor Jazzion Cathcart in September 2025 during a Hope City Fellowship Sunday Service in Asheville, NC

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

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May God give you grace to grow, thrive, and prosper in His purposes for your life. 

Young Ray Charles discovered that the taking AWAY of ONE of his senses... radically and powerfully INCREASED the strength of the others. Young Ray losing his ability to SEE, gave him the ability to SENSE in ways that he never could have otherwise. His limitation SERVED him as the backdrop to becoming one of the greatest music artists of all time. 

This is the nature of fasting... denying oneself food and/or other pleasurable things in order to strengthen one's spirit and draw closer to God Himself. 

Fasting has both physical and spiritual benefits and was a part of Jesus Christ's own journey through the wilderness and temptation to making an impact on the world that has forever changed history and altered the future of the Universe for the glory of God. 

Advisory: Please consult a medical professional before fasting if you have any physical concerns or issues that could be negatively impacted by going extended periods without food. 

May God bless and increase you, and give you grace to prosper in all of His purposes for your life. 

Message by Pastor Jazzion Cathcart in July 2025 during a Hope City Fellowship Sunday Service in Asheville, NC

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One of the things we got to discuss... something that I needed to INSIST about with him... was that without JESUS, we will not get any credit for all the GOOD we've done because doing GOOD doesn't pay for the WRONG that we've committed and harbored in our hearts. 

It doesn't work that way in a regular court of law. 

And it doesn't work that way in God's court of law, of which we all have an appointment to stand before the Judge of all the world when we die. 

I pray that this video gives you insight, understanding, and encouragement... to repent of your sins and receive Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, Satisfier, Leader, and Lord if you haven't... or to share the GOOD NEWS of His reality and Kingdom if you already hit the lottery of His Grace!

This is 'all that JAZZION' and it's my goal to share the WEALTH and help people WIN... especially in their relationship with God!

May He BLESS and INCREASE you

Having a LITTLE bit of something versus having a whole LOT of something can make a massive difference. 

Think about money. 

When you are barely getting by paying your bills, you feel and move one way. Yes, your bills are paid and you have somewhere to live. But the stress, anxiety, and uncertainty is daunting. 

But when you are doing extremely WELL financially and you have the means and freedom to not only pay your bills, but to eat where you want to, to bless somebody with the proverbial "golden handshake", to serve the destitute among us, and even mess around and go on a nice vacation that is stress-free... the entire experience is completely night and day. That's because having a LITTLE bit of something is very different from having a whole LOT of something. 

In this sermon, Pastor Jazz impactfully preaches and teaches about how there is a difference between HAVING the Holy Spirit of God by trusting and following the Savior Jesus Christ, versus being FILLED with the Holy Spirit of God as you trust and follow the Savior and make room for the Spirit to fill you. 

The Apostle Paul told the Ephesians, 

"Don't be drunk [filled] with wine because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit."

As Shakespeare so powerfully depicted in his masterpiece Othello, deep and desirous in the heart of every man is the yearning for freedom... to do what one pleases without unnecessary restraint and restriction. 

The God of the Gospel not only imputes righteousness so that we might be FORGIVEN, but He unshackles and empowers us so that we might be FREE. 

...Free from religion gone bad, free from the slavery of the lusts of the flesh... and free to be abundant as we join God in blessing the world in Jesus' Name as those who are FULL of the One who liberates. 

What could you do with a wholeeeee lot of LOVE?... JOY... PEACE... PATIENCE.... KINDNESS... GOODNESS... GENTLENESS... FAITHFULNESS... and SELF-CONTROL?

Message by Pastor Jazzion Cathcart in June 2025 during a Hope City Fellowship Sunday Service in Asheville, NC

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Check out my answer. It has insight that I believe will enrich your life and your relationship with God. 

May God give you grace to grow, thrive, and prosper in His purposes for your life. 

If you have a question you would like me to answer on my podcast, or if you would like to engage with me on a recorded zoom call about a specific topic, shoot me an email and let's talk!   allthatjazzion@gmail.com

The Apostle Paul in chapter 1 of his letter to the Galatians, In his quest to bring them back into Gospel forgiveness and freedom, he explains, "I used to be the world's most vehement opponent of the Gospel message, Messiah, and movement. Now I'm its most passionate champion."

But WHY?!

Very much a Harriet Tubman before there WAS a Harriet Tubman, Paul couldn't just leave those he once brought into life and liberty in Christ in their slavery- despite the fact that they caused him so much ongoing grief. The reason is that the same Being who intercepted, saved, and liberated him, also COMMISSIONED him to fight for the Freedom of others... and Jesus has done the same FOR and TO us. 

Sermon Points: Connection - Commission

Message by Pastor Jazzion Cathcart in May 2025 during a Hope City Fellowship Sunday Service in Asheville, NC

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Check out my answer. 

I believe you'll find it to be very considerate, comprehensive, biblical, real, and redemptive. 

And I think it has insight that will help you understand the wisdom of God who loves all people and deeply desires to redeem and reconcile all things to Himself through Christ. 

May God bless you. 

If you have a question you would like me to answer on my podcast, or if you would like to engage with me on a recorded zoom call about a specific topic, shoot me an email and let's talk!   allthatjazzion@gmail.com

Message by Pastor Jazzion Cathcart April 2025 during a Hope City Fellowship Sunday Service in Asheville, NC

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Try starting your day with these. 

Listen to them, repeat them in your mind and heart, and consider recording them in your own voice and listening to them each

day.

You will be BLESSED.

May God give you grace to grow, thrive, and prosper in His purposes for your life. 

Message by Pastor Jazzion Cathcart April 2025 during a Hope City Fellowship Sunday Service in Asheville, NC

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I'm convinced that laziness is NOT the primary culprit although it IS an issue for many!

I have found that most people's prayer life is trash because they don't know HOW to pray in a robust way.

And they are in pretty good company. Jesus' own disciples asked Him to teach THEM to pray the same way John the Baptizer's disciples needed him to teach THEM how to pray well (Luke 11:1-4). 

In this video, I share some encouragement, information, personal experience, and uberrrrrrr practical advice that I've gained from God via some incredible resources that I believe will change your LIFE!

This is 'all that JAZZION' and it's my goal to share the WEALTH and help people WIN for GOOD and for God's GLORY. 

May He BLESS and INCREASE you!

Message by Pastor Jazzion Cathcart April 2025 during a Hope City Fellowship Sunday Service in Asheville, NC

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