Isaiah 60:1 “Arise, shine for your light has come.” Mark—Chapter 5. One chapter that describes three of the most hopeless situations recorded in the Gospels: a man whose sanity had been stripped away by not just one, but a legion of demons; a woman who, after twelve years, had Continue Reading…
Isaiah 50:10-11 “Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God. But now, all you who light fires and provide yourselves with flaming torches, go, walk in the light of your fires and of the torches Continue Reading…
Romans 4:18 “Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed….” I’m thankful that hope is so stubborn. If it wasn’t, I think I’d be a goner. In spite of how many times circumstances tempt me to throw in the towel, I find that entity of hope again popping to the Continue Reading…
Psalm 42:5 “Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.” Our lives are packed with expectations. Daniel Boorstin’s book, The Image, describes it well: “We expect anything and everything. We expect the contradictory and impossible. We expect compact cars which are spacious; Continue Reading…
Ephesians 6:18 “And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests.” We’ve all heard the expression, “They don’t have a prayer.” I think that’s a claim that should be stricken from the Christian’s lexicon. Scripture tells us that nothing is impossible with God, and Continue Reading…