This Week at Hope

We read in Acts 4:13, “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished.  And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.”  What a wonderful compliment for people to recognize that we are...

In the final chapters of all four gospels, the Apostle Peter denies Jesus not once but THREE times!  But in Acts, Peter is like a new man.  After being put in custody in Acts 4 for healing a crippled man, he could have been fearful.  He could have said only what he...

Have you been instructed to do anything recently?  God gives us instructions through His Word.  And, those instructions always require faith.  For example, “Noah, build a boat big enough to hold pairs of every animal in the world.”  “Moses, go down to Egypt and tell...

The prophet Malachi’s first utterance is “I have loved you” (Malachi 1:2).  The Hebrew word for love (ahav) describes an affection based on a close relationship.  In other words, there is a strong emotional attachment. This love is the kind of love a man has for a...

I wonder how many of you have watched the Christmas classic, “It’s a Wonderful Life” during this Advent season.  Each December, millions of people around the world watch Frank Capra’s movie, produced just after World War 2 in 1946.  Did you know that it wasn’t a hit...

We read in Matthew 1:23, "Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name 'Immanuel' (which means God with us)."  During this season of Advent, we acknowledge that God is with us at our deepest point of need.  Not only is God at the...

We read in Luke 2:20, “And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.” Praising God is the only adequate response when we behold God’s goodness and when He showers His love and favor in our lives.  Is...

We read in Malachi 3:3, “He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord.”  When the Messiah comes, He will make our offerings...

How many of you have watched the movie, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?  I watched that movie often when our children were young.  One character in the Winnie the Pooh movie is Eeyore the donkey.  Do you remember him?  In contrast to Pooh, Eeyore is a...