The New Testament regularly exhorts us to hope. This can be seen as an action, but is equally a virtue. As Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 13 – the three great Christian virtues are faith, hope and love. However we so often see hope as something outside of our control – we may find we are hopeful, or we may lose hope – in either case it is something that ‘happens to us’ and ends up, more often than not, being collapsed into a vague optimism.
This Sunday Tim Murray unpacks a few of the verses in the New Testament that relate to hope and explores how we might approach hope as a virtue – something to nurture, practice and grow in – that we might experience its benefits.
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