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.
God used the sinful actions of humans to fulfill his will to provide the innocent one to take the place of the guilty.
Four short parables point to the surpassing value of the kingdom of God and the need to find it now.
In 2 Peter 2:10-22, the apostle described the character, methods, and end of the false teachers, showing us the way to avoid returning to...
