In Pastor Cindy's sermon "A Living Hope," she addresses 1 Peter 1:3-9. When we say, “yes,” to becoming followers of Christ, we are birthed in to:    (1) a living hope, and (2) an inheritance.  What is a “Living Hope?”  It is not a “dead Hope.”  Hope that doesn’t “live,” is not Hope at all.  “Living” in the Greek, means it is alive today, it will be living tomorrow, and on in to the future.  We have this Hope because of the Resurrection.