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.
Irony occurs when a situation turns out to be the opposite of what is expected. Dramatic irony is when the author and the audience...
I Corinthians 7:25-35. With an increasing number of adults living alone and only about half of American adults being married, it is important to...
Daniel’s three friends preferred to die rather than renounce their faith, knowing that God would be with them no matter what.