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.
One of Paul’s purposes in visiting Rome was to receive help to get the gospel all the way to Spain.
In answer to Daniel’s final question about the future, a messenger gave him a simple message we all need to hear.
While David rejoiced in being rescued from an untimely death, his words pointed to his descendant who would experience an untimely death but be...