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 Galatians 4:21-31, Paul gave an interpretation of the story from the Old Testament about Abraham and the two sons he had, one to...
Saul’s two acts of foolishness contrasted with his son’s two acts of faith, and they changed the course of history.
If someone hears a message but does not act upon it, sometimes we say that “it went in one ear and out the other.”...