We are to be diligent in living our eternal life today by partaking in His divine nature.

The promises of God are both a future-focused faith (hope) and a present practice of our faith (behavior).

You already have been fitted for your super bowl ring, now you just need to trust that the victory is your’s and live like a champion and wait for the day when the ring is put on your finger.

One of the promises of Christmas is that God is actively working to make all things new. It is His work!

Heaven is a glorious truth that gives us hope, but if your only view of God’s peace is being in Heaven one day, then you have an insufficient view of God’s peace.

A Reader's Theater focusing on the people surrounding the birth of Jesus.

Christmas is the true story of the first royal visitation of Jesus Christ! Yet, everything about it seems to be upside down!

Christian hope is not a misplaced belief in our human ability to work for a utopian life here and now—as we are all learning, no amount of political ideology or medical science is going to save us, nor will greater education or a larger economy is not going to save us, our jobs or recreation, our families or friends, or anything else can save us. Progress is not the hope we thought it was!

“Hope is, therefore, not irrational, but rather is based upon God, who has proven himself faithful. Biblical hope is hope in what God will do in the future. At the heart of Christian hope is the resurrection of Jesus” (Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible, 997).

We have to be reminded that we must keep God first in all that we do. If we truly love someone, we desire to listen and obey, to cherish and serve and to demonstrate our love in all that we do.