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.
Because humans were dead in our sins, the only possible solution was for God to make us alive because of his grace.
In preparation for coming calamity, the prophet made plans to rejoice in the Lord.
In encounters with a powerful man and a destitute woman, Jesus showed the authority of his word over sickness and death.
