The ”all that JAZZION” Audio Podcast

Sermon - "I'm Dressed For Success" - Pastor Jazz Cathcart

"And all who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like putting on new clothes."
-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

Sermon - "... but Abba Said Be at Peace with All Men" - Pastor Jazz Cathcart

"Do all that you can to be at peace with all men."
-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!"

A Unitarian Universalist and a Christian Pastor Walk Into a Bar - Jazzion Cathcart

I met and made friends with Karen while having lunch in town with one of my best friends. I told her, "Let's talk more on my podcast channel!"
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!

Sermon - What does GOD feel about what happened to Alex Pretti? - "Stepping Into The Fire" - Pastor Jazzion Cathcart

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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
 

Sermon - God is going to GROW you - Christmas & New Years Sermon FIRE! - Pastor Jazzion Cathcart

The Apostle Paul said at justttttt the right time in history God sent His special Son Jesus Christ into the world... born of a woman (that's the first Christmas)... not only to come and SAVE us... but to GROW us. 
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If this message adds value to your life, 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 carry Gospel-hope!"
To learn more or to support our ministry, visit our website at hopecityfellowship.org
 

Sermon - "Do you actually WANT to get well?" - Sign Language the Series - Pastor Jazzion Cathcart

Bible Reference: John 5:1-18
“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

Sermon - "Wait, what was your last name again?" - Sign Language - Pastor Jazz Cathcart

Bible Reference:  John 2:1-11
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

POWERFUL Affirmations to Start Your Day and Strengthen You in Christ - Pastor Jazzion Cathcart

Affirmations are powerful. 
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.

Sermon - "Capsized with a Coke" - Secret Society - Pastor Jazzion Cathcart

Bible Reference: 1 Samuel 30:1-20
"...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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If this message adds value to your life, share with someone you care about. 
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

Sermon - "Individualized Educational Plan" - Secret Society - Pastor Jazz Cathcart

Bible Reference:  Acts 20:16-27
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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If this message adds value to your life, share with someone you care about. 
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