David's life summary is as straightforward as it is uplifting for anyone who's overwhelmed by life: I call upon the Lord, and he saves me.
The Book of Jonah is ultimately a message of God's mercy toward all, even the bird-brained, the depraved, and the calloused. Christians have the privilege of stewarding this message of mercy as we proclaim it to the lost.
The hope of heaven sets our mission as a local church. It shapes the message we share with others, and the life we share together.
You do have to grieve. But you don’t have to grieve without hope.
How do you not lose heart when there are so many reasons to? You need to know that heaven is where you are going, and suffering is how you will get there.
There is no peace without hope, and no hope without heaven.
In heaven we will be perfected by sight. In the meantime, on earth, we are being purified by hope.
For a Christian, the day of judgment is a day to long for, because on that day we will finally see ourselves as God already sees us in Christ, defined not by all our sins and failures but by his beautiful, spotless righteousness.
Though we fear many things, Jesus has the power to free us from every overwhelming evil power (particularly fear of our sin and being in a sinful world) so we should not fear his power but trust his power.
No one is ever fully satisfied, and often the better we seem to have it the worse we seem to feel. How did we get here? And what can be done about it?
At the center of the Christian life Paul places intentional, disciplined focus on the hope of heaven. Why?
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