Hope against Hope: The Relevance of Christian Hope Today
Three Ways the Resurrection of Jesus Can Transform Your Life Today
What is the significance of the resurrection of Christ for you? The gospel reveals that the resurrection eliminates doubt, brings hope in grief, and offers forgiveness to sinners.
Three Keys to a Christian Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic
How can a Christian respond to the COVID–19 pandemic? Many people have reacted to the with fear, despair, or apathy. The article provides three keys to a Christian response to the current pandemic: faith, hope, and love.
Where to Find Hope When You Need It
Do you find your hope and security in your culture, status, and wealth? Many people look to these things for security. However, the Scriptures tell us that our true security is found in the promises of God, which are grounded in a firm hope (Hebrews 6:16-20).
Hope Is a Very Good Thing: What Is the Active Ingredient in Antidepressant Medication? (Part 2)
What role might hope play in healing from life's hurts? This article discusses research that has suggested that hope within a depressed person might be more healing than antidepressants.
The Christian Hope
Hope for the Discouraged Shepherd
This article offers a word of hope for the discouraged pastor. It advises to cry out to the Lord, to lay down your life for the sheep, to turn to Christ in trials and afflictions, and know that nothing can separate you from the love of Christ.
Hope When You Face More Than You Can Bear
How do you gain hope in afflictions? Understand the reality of suffering, the reason for affliction, and then respond with hope.
Looking for Hope in a Better Person
How do you help people who have placed their hope in places other than Jesus? It is by learning to identify false hope. This article points to four things that will help you identify false hope.
No Hope without Character
Learning to Suffer Well: Hoping in God's Character
2 Corinthians 5:1-8 – Where There's Hope, There's Life
This article explores the matter of Christian hope, through the lens of 2 Corinthians 5:1-8.
What a Wonder!
Isn't a wonder to know that the Holy Spirit dwells in you? This article explains that this knowledge should be the source of assurance, hope, and motivation.
Hope
Bringing Heaven Down to Earth – Lost in the Cornfield: Hope in Crisis
This volume is about Christian hope. Part of the Christian hope is heaven. The promise of an afterlife in heaven places our lives in a larger context, to fix us to a firm foundation. Bierma takes a look at the reasons why hope for the afterlife is not a heartfelt reality in our daily walk. Part of the answer can be found in misrepresentations people have about heaven and afterlife and Christ’s return, like the rapture.
Christian Hope in Death
Hope: The Best of Things
What does it mean to have hope? Christian hope is differently from worldly hope. Based on Romans 15:8-13 this article shows that Christian hope in its nature is rooted in the faithfulness of God.
The Hopeful Parent & Teacher
Understanding the Promises of God
How Christ's Resurrection Shapes Our Hope
An Apologetic Problem: No Hope Where the Gospel Has Not Been Heard?
Is there any hope for those who never heard the gospel? In this essay Baker affirms that the Scriptures teach that salvation is by faith in God, and mediated through Jesus Christ. The author wants to look at safeguards against the dangers of unwarranted inferences from this. He wants his readers to be wary of speaking carelessly about the hope we have.
The Triune God – The Greatness of God
Where There's Hope, There's Life
What is the Christian hope? From 2 Corinthians 5:1-8 this article shows that Christian hope is looking forward to a new dwelling place, new clothing, new home, and being with Christ. This should be the Christian's comfort as he faces the aging period.
Comfort While Living in a Dying Body
Lift High the Cross
What does it mean to have assurance of salvation in the atoning work of Christ? This is the critical question that the article deals with, as a reminder of the sure and unwavering hope that believers have in the finished work on the cross of Christ.
Job 19:25-27 - Everlasting Life
Christ the Victor
This article focuses on Christ's accomplished work of redemption and His exaltation. The meaning of Christ's exaltation is evaluated and contrasted with other human sources of hope and comfort, such as secularism and marxism.
Don't Take My Grief Away Grief and the Role of Pastoral Care
Ecclesiastes 7:13 - God Made It Crooked
Hopeful Pilgrims
The Bible reminds Christians that they are strangers and pilgrims in this world. Why is this so? This article names God’s election as the cause of this. By electing individuals, God has prepared heaven for them. Therefore, the daily life of a Christian is filled with hope and an eager desire to be home.
Cycles (2): Pictures of the Vanity of Life
Creation abounds with cycles. The sun rises, sets, and rises again. Is there anything to learn from these cycles? The author affirms with a resounding Yes. Without Christ, these repetitions of life reveal the emptiness, and fill one with a sense of vanity. However, in Christ one has hope that this repetition will come to an end with our death, and that we will then enter into eternal fellowship with God.
1 Peter 1:13 - Sober and Hopeful
The Leading of the Spirit (Part 3)
This is the third article of a three part series discussing how Christian believers are led by the Holy Spirit. In this article the author looks at the path of sanctification and that He leads us in hope and confidence.
The School of Grace
2 Timothy 2:8 - Resurrection Encouragement
In this article on 2 Timothy 2:8, the author discusses the encouragement and hope that we have in Christ. We have hope in the fact that Jesus is the Christ, He died for our sins, He rose from the dead, and He has been exalted over all things.
Facing Death With Hope: Living For What Lasts
This Side of Heaven
Jeremiah 29:11 - A Future and a Hope
Looking at Jeremiah 29:11, this article shows that true peace and hope for the future can only be found in God.
Christ's Appearance
Moving Beyond a “Doom And Gloom” Message
When Christians become concerned about social issues in society they are sometimes viewed as bearers of bad news. This article is a call to Christians to give biblical hope in politics through the gospel.
Theological Eschatology 5 - Heavenly Mindedness
Looking at Christian eschatology and how it shapes the hope we have, this article shows how this understand calls Christians to develop an ascetical practice in this life. This way of life is achieved through being heavenly minded. It is only in being heavenly minded that Christians can be or real use in this life. Read on...
Theological Eschatology 3: A Christ-Centered Vision of Hope
The presence of God is the center of Christian eschatology. This article shows that this is also the character of Christian hope. This is the third in a series of articles on the topic of eschatology.
Theological Eschatology 2: In the End, God
Looking at the relationship between Genesis 1-2 and Revelation 21, this article shows how both these scripture passages highlight the presence of God as the center of everything. This perspective allows us to view God as the Creator of our hope. This is the second in a series of articles on the topic of eschatology.
Theological Eschatology 1
Though commending the effort by Neo-Calvinists to raise the Lordship of Christ in all of life, this article shows that this has the tendency to root Christian hope in this world. This article calls for a balanced perspective in which the Lordship of Christ in all of life will not blind Christians to the reality of their spiritual hope. This is the first in a series of articles on the topic of eschatology.
Anointed Affections
The author of this article looks at Psalms as the depiction of all parts of a religious emotional life. WIth this in mind, and with the conviction that all of Scripture speaks about Christ, this article looks at how the Book of Psalms reveals the emotions of Christ, such as his anger, compassion, grief, hope and joy.
The Lord’s Supper in Christian Experience
The Hope of Salvation
Hoping and Waiting, or Why Christians Aren’t Apathetic Cynics
The Religion of Gravestones
Hope as an Incentive to Godliness
This article is about hope, and how it is an incentive for godliness. In other words, what does the return of Christ have to do with our piety? The kingdom of God is discussed from a amillennial point of view, as a spiritual kingdom. It also looks at the relation of the kingdom of God to this world.
The Life of Faith
In this article the author looks at the relation of faith and trust, faith and obedience, faith and hope, and faith and the promises of God. Hebrews 11 is also discussed.
How then will we live?
Hope
This article is a basic description of the Christian hope.
Hebrews 6:19 - The Hope Anchored Soul
Negativism
Psalm 42 – Tears for Food
1 Corinthians 15:19-20 - The Christian Hope
Psalm 102 - Will the Lord Rebuild His Church in Scotland?
The Great Healer
The Gospel of God's Providence
H.E.L.P. Spells "HELP!"
Philippians 3:13-14 - Looking to the Future, Forgetting the Past
A Reformation Martyr Comforts His Wife
This article is about the letter the martyr Guido de Bres sent his wife shortly before he was hung. It shows that the normal Christian life is not one of health and wealth, but of suffering and hope for the future.
Hope as the Motivation of Love
A Call to Heavenly-mindedness
This article is about the relation of hope and piety, and hope and worship. The promises of God and afterlife is also discussed.
Civilization & its Discontent
This article is about the expectation of the new heaven and earth and the worldly hope and optimism and the idea of utopia we find in our society today. The author also looks at the joy and the patience of the kingdom of God.
The Other Four Illustrations: How Hope Compels Love
Hope plays such an important role in the believer's perseverance in the faith. Using a few well-chosen Biblical texts, this author provides four illustrations of how hope moves and sustains love.
A Christian View of Death and Dying
This article is about sin and death, hope and comfort.
Dead and buried...the End?
Let's Find "Grace for a Well-Timed Help" Together
The Use of "Hope" in Hebrews
The word "hope" (elpis) occurs in Hebrews in five places. This confidence that our future is secure is so important to our life of freedom in God's household.