by glenholman | Jul 4, 2024 | This Week At Hope
Today is July 4th! We celebrate the 248th birthday of freedom for our country. Independence Day commemorates the independence we have as a nation. On July 4, 1776, we claimed our independence from England, and the United States of America was born. Every day...
by glenholman | Jun 12, 2024 | This Week At Hope
Did you ever consider that when we respond to others, we are responding to Christ? Dietrich Bonhoeffer said it well in his book, The Cost of Discipleship: “The bearers of Jesus’ word receive a final word of promise for their work. They are now Christ’s fellow...
by glenholman | Jun 6, 2024 | This Week At Hope
The Apostle Paul calls us “to put off [our] old self, which belongs to [our] former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires (Ephesians 4:22) . . . and then he counsels us “to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness...
by glenholman | May 31, 2024 | This Week At Hope
The Apostle Paul declared in Ephesians 2:8, “For by GRACE you have been saved.” This means that we did NOTHING to earn or deserve our salvation. A more literal rendering of this phrase “for by grace” is “by the grace”. “For” is a term of explanation, which always...
by glenholman | May 24, 2024 | This Week At Hope
I pride myself on having a good memory of dates and numbers. I can tell you the dates of all of my family’s birthdays and anniversaries. I can remember the dates members of my family have died, and many other significant dates. Memories are important. What are...
by glenholman | May 17, 2024 | This Week At Hope
Did you ever wonder why people reject Jesus? The foundational reason people reject Jesus is that they are in spiritual darkness. As Jesus is in conversation with Nicodemus, as recorded in John’s gospel, he declares in John 3:19, “And this is the judgment: the light...
