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.
While David used desperate and even deceptive means of escape, God provided for him because of his grace and faithfulness.
In Peter’s first of eleven speeches in Acts, he showed how Judas needed to replaced with another apostle so that the remade Israel would...
With the books of Ezra and Nehemiah, we arrive at the end of Old Testament history with the Jews back in their land after...