Category: Hope
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His Mercy: Faith, Hope, Love
Many believe that Paul is the author of Hebrews. The author starts a three-step process to moving the reader to be roused spiritually and start moving forward. The first step is in today’s verse for the January Scripture writing plan: His Mercies are New each day. The author writes. “let us draw…
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Never Ending Mercies
A little while ago, I wrote about a verse in this series from the book of Lamentations. We looked at how Grieving our Sin brings us a renewing through how merciful God is. Lamentations 3:22-23 offers a message of hope and reassurance amidst the backdrop of immense sorrow and devastation. The…
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Hope for the Despair
Have you been rebelling lately? Do you feel far from God? DO you feel demoralized? Do you feel exhausted? Do you feel hopeless? Do you feel like God has abandoned you? Are you on the edge of despair? Maybe you feel one or many or all these things, then chapter…
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The Wait is Over
Imagine the Lord your God came and told you that you would not die without having seen the Messiah. You are well in your years, at the temple, perhaps praying for the Messiah, and one day two teenagers, with a little boy in their arms walks through the entrance, and there…
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Love.
Love: affection for a person or an object. There are many different attributes we could apply to the word love and most be appropriate. However, when we examine the word love from God’s Point of view, we get a very different picture of what love is. Love is the foundation…
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Hope.
Hope: the desire to see something happen or become true. It is hard to survive without hope. Because of this, we tend to put our hope in objects, experiences, and people. This leads us to great disappointments when our expectations are unrealistic and mismanaged. We need to place our hope…
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Faith.
Yesterday I wrote faith is: simply putting trust or confidence in something or someone and having a belief that is not based on proof. Worldly faith is different from the faith I am addressing here. A great example of the faith we are talking about can be found in 1…
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Only These Remain.
Paul gets right to the heart of the matter in 1 Corinthians 13. CHapter 13 of first Corinthians is commonly called the chapter on love. After describing the word love in detail, he finishes the chapter by saying that these things will last forever: faith, hope, and love. 13 Now these…
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The Bible: our sourcebook for life
What we believe governs our lives and choices. Our belief is the foundation from which we form our opinions and make decisions. For those who have received Christ, it is essential to know what we believe and why we believe it. Most people inherit their convictions from their parents and…
It Starts Small 