Igniting Hope Ministries

Steve shares about the incredible hope in the Christmas story, and he shares more about how to start the new year with a radical plan of growth and transformation.

Steve Backlund will ignite your hope in this podcast, plus shares a catalytic forty-day strategy for starting the new year off powerfully. To top it off, he shares his favorite hope quotes.

There is a message that frequently comes through our negative circumstances. It is saying, "These situations define you as a person and limit what your future can be." In this message, Steve Backlund brings a spiritual sledgehammer to accepting as truth these lies.

As America celebrates Thanksgiving, Steve Backlund shares some powerful reasons to increase our saying "thank you" to God and to the people in our lives.

This is a continued blog/podcast from June 2020 which you can find here: https://ignitinghope.com/igniting-hope/standing-strong-in-the-evil-day/ “Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand...” (Ephesians 6:13). The "evil day” is not a single day but refers to the times in our lives where we are facing circumstances that seem overwhelming. In this message, Steve Backlund shares empowering keys of how to stand in these times.

We become part of the problem, and not the solution when we "label" people in our thinking or words. Who hasn't heard or spoken labels like alcoholic, stupid, or Doubting Thomas? In this message, Steve Backlund will motivate you and equip you to overcome the tendency to judge and label others and ourselves.

Proverbs 23:7 is a great verse for radical mind renewers to consider: “For as (a man) thinks in his heart, so is he”. In this podcast, Steve Backlund uses this verse to take us to another level in valuing intentional thinking and then gives keys for how to effectively do it.

"Be transformed by the renewing of our minds" (Romans 12:2). Current mind renewal creates future experiences. This is true in the positive (truth) and negative (lies). Join Steve Backlund in this powerful message which gives inspiring and practical keys for how to bring true change (transformation) into your life.

What we conclude about a circumstance is almost always more important than the circumstance itself. In this inspiring message, Steve Backlund shares about the twelve spies in Numbers 13 and how two groups of people had a different conclusion which dramatically impacted what they experienced.

The life of faith will cause us to have to let go of something before we can grab hold of the new things that we are destined for. In this message, Steve Backlund shares five things to release our hold on.