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.
When were the glory days of the church: perhaps when it was being persecuted, or maybe when it held sway over the culture? In...
Was the incarnation of the Son of God really necessary, and if so why?
In a second vision, Daniel saw into the future when the Jews would need to remain faithful under terrible persecution.