Recognizing the key role that hope plays in our lives, we encourage each other by saying, “Keep your hopes up!” We also realize that a situation is lost if someone gives up hope. With so many difficulties in our lives, we need hope to keep going. In I Peter 1:3-12, God calls his people to be a hopeful people, but not based on wishful thinking but on his own work for us.
Just like us, the people of Jesus' day spent much of their time laboring for things that perish. Just like us, they often found...
All of a sudden, in John 11:55-12:26, Jesus not only permitted but encouraged people publicly to recognize him as king. What had changed? What...
In James 1:9-18, the author continues to urge us to have a biblical perspective on the difficult and the good things in life, including...