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.
As the second Adam and the faithful Israel, Jesus resisted temptation and so can help us when we are tempted.
In the sixth dispute between God and his people in Malachi 3:13-4:3, we find the proper response to everything God was saying to them....
In a series of verbal skirmishes with religious leaders, Jesus showed who we are and how we should live as the image of God...
