Steve shares about his favorite USA college football team and their journey of moving up into a higher division against better competition. Their beginning struggles in this taught him a principle that has profoundly impacted his life. Join him today in this powerful message that will inspire you to overcome apparent failure as you seek to live at higher levels of life.

Steve Backlund shares about some research he has been doing about some academic studies related to hope. In this message, he quotes Dr. Shane Lopez’s (former senior scientist at Gallup) definition of hope:” the belief that the future will be better than the present, along with the belief that you have the power to make it so.” Steve mixes some of his own revelations about hope in with what he has been learning from others. This is a powerful message.

If God wanted us to think small for our lives, He did a bad job. In this message, Steve will inspire you to think bigger for your life and those around you. He shares six reasons we might embrace limited thinking, and then unlocks four practical truths from scripture to help launch us to go where no person has ever gone in beliefs and experience.

In this powerful message, Steve Backlund shares a truth from Isaiah 61 that is a key to create freedom for ourselves and others.

Igniting Hope Ministries annual Negativity Fast and Positivity Feast has brought breakthrough to many. In this message, Steve Backlund speaks of the benefits of doing this fast/feast, especially if done with others. This message will inspire you in both your belief journey and in connecting powerfully with others.

What is happening in us is usually more important than what is happening to us. And our response to something is almost always more important than the something. As we embrace these truths, we can develop a habit that will build our faith, hope, and love muscles in great ways. In this message, Steve Backlund shares from his own experience how to benefit from that which would normally discourage us.

If we are listening to unhelpful things on the radio, we can and should change the channel. If we are listening to the wrong messages in our thinking and self-talk, then we can and must change there as well. In this message, Steve shares that we are listening to the right channel if what we are hearing gives us hope for ourselves, others, our circumstances, and for our nation.

“All things work together for good” (Romans 8:28). Steve takes a deeper look at this incredible promise. As you listen, you will be inspired with powerful wisdom to see the good in results in challenges faced in life.