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.
In this section of Daniel, there is the clearest declaration in the Old Testament of the resurrection and eternal life.
The personal letter Paul wrote to Philemon contains a beautiful picture of redemption through the work of Christ.
Two stories combine to show how Jesus has power to make people whole again and to call us to believe his words.
