Posts with the tag “hope”

HOPE: Holding on with Patient ExpectationGreg Laurie“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord; and my prayer went up to You, into Your holy temple” (Jonah 2:7 NKJV).A lot of people in our culture today are starting to lose hope. Experts say that one of the reasons suicide rates are so high is because people have lost hope.From the inside of a very large fish, Jonah was beginning to lo...  Read More

HopeCharles SwindollCan you remember a recent "gray slush" day? Of course you can. So can I. The laws of fairness and justice were displaced by a couple of Murphy's Laws. Your dream dissolved into a nightmare. High hopes took a hike. Good intentions got lost in a comedy of errors, only this time nobody was laughing. You didn't soar, you slumped. Instead of "pressing on the upward way," you felt li...  Read More

Inoculated with Faith/Hope/Loveby Shawn McEvoySo now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love (1 Corinthians 13:13).I remember the morning following the 2012 presidential election, I found myself musing peacefully about what's important in life. I was finding out, through realizing how little the outcome affected me, how little stock I'd had in the result persona...  Read More