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.
Instructions to slaves and masters orient all Christians toward commitment and service to the Lord Jesus.
The detailed instructions for the construction of the Tent of Meeting held important lessons for Israel and also for us today.
With so much insistence in Galatians on our being right before God through faith in Christ and not by the works of the law,...