When you're hurting and frustrated, do you sometimes think about giving up? It is hard to keep going some days, and keeping the faith becomes one of life’s most difficult challenges. It is relatively easy to live out our Christian lives when things are going...
This Week at Hope
An Astounding Request
Annie Dillard, who won a Pulitzer Prize in literature at age 30, has written explicitly about her Christian faith. As a teen, however, she once decided to quit the church because of the hypocrisy of those who came on Sunday mornings mainly to show off their clothes. ...
Filled with the Holy Spirit
In Acts 4, Peter and John are confronted by the Sadducees for teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. The Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection of the dead. To picture the scene correctly, we need to understand how...
Contribution vs. Commitment
Recent surveys indicate that there are still a large number of Americans who consider themselves to be Christians, but that a relatively large number have not translated that profession into worshipping, committed members of Christ’s Church. There are too many...
God Doesn’t Give Up!
How do you look at life? Do you look at life from your limited perspective or God’s grand perspective? As a follower of Jesus Christ, I encourage you to look at life from God’s perspective. God doesn’t see what is, He sees what will be – by grace. The next time...
Rooted
Are you rooted? We read in Colossians 2:6-7, “Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.” Friends, we are to be rooted and built up in...
Wait!
I was reminded recently of what my mom used to say when I would ask her something – “We’ll just have to wait and see!” It’s like when you go to the hospital with a heart attack and the doctor comes out to talk with the family, and he says, “The first 24 hours are...
Living Hope
Is there a hopeless situation you are dealing with today? What are you hoping for today? We all live with some kind of hope. We hope it will be a nice day. We hope our IRA will grow. We hope our team will win the championship. But what is hope? The Bible tells...
God’s Instructions
As we look back at Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, we read in Matthew 21:1-3 that Jesus “drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, ‘Go into the village in front of you, and immediately...
No Compromise
Many people love Jesus, but they also love the sin of the world. You don’t have to teach someone to sin . . . it comes naturally! And because people dabble in both, they are miserable. It is like loving lemonade and Frappuccino and mixing them instead of drinking...