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.
A biblical explanation of church membership and its great privileges and responsibilities
While the people cynically questioned God’s justice and longed for his intervention, in Malachi 2:17-3:5, God told them he would be coming in judgment...
In 2 Peter 3:1-9, Peter’s five answers to the false teachers’ scoffing tell us what it means for us that the Lord hasn’t returned...
