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.
God's presence in the early church produced awesome acts of community giving and healing but also an awesome judgment against hypocrisy and deception.
While David rejoiced in being rescued from an untimely death, his words pointed to his descendant who would experience an untimely death but be...
Dying and rising with Christ through faith transforms wives and husbands and solves the basic problem of marriages.
