by Don Johnston, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus Be encouraged by the hope John 16:33 offers. If you know Jesus, you have nothing to fear. Take 15 minutes and watch this video to clear your mind, calm your soul, and condition your heart to have...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus One verse in Psalm 48 tells us that God is preeminent, personal, permanent, and pastoral. Take the time to learn more about these four attributes of God. You will be blessed! Psa 48:14 For this God...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus Luke 2:30-32 [Simeon said] “For my eyes have seen Your salvation which You have prepared before the face of all peoples; a light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of Your people...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus The gospel of Luke records that first Christmas night when God intervened in human history. And God did this in such a way that no one was left out. These good tidings were for all men and all women...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus The coming of the Messiah had been prophesied for centuries, but most were not anticipating when, where, or how He would appear. The good news of Christmas is literally for all people of all colors,...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus Good tidings started 2000 years ago when angels appeared to startled shepherds one night. Luke 2:8-11“Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus Samuel and David both wrote a great deal of Scripture. Both were godly men. Samuel is often thought of as a man who earned Israel’s trust and David was said by God to be a man after His own...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus The book of Judges is a very dark time in Israel’s history. This infamous period is summed up by the words…“in those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” ...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus In back-to-back verses in God’s Hall of Faith chapter (Hebrews 11), we have two Bible characters that were truly worlds’ apart in character and reputation — Joshua and Rahab. The first and...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus In God’s Hall of Faith (Hebrews 11), the one commonality is that these are all people of great faith. But on the other hand, they are all quite different in their personalities, ages, and stages of...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus Some of the Bible characters in God’s Hall of Faith are not mentioned by name. That is the case regarding the parents of Moses. Heb. 11:23 By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden three...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus Joseph is one of the most outstanding men in the Bible and he is most certainly worthy of inclusion in God’s Hall of Faith. Heb. 11:22 By faith, Joseph, when he was dying… It’s interesting that...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus Jacob cunningly deceived his brother Esau into forfeiting his birthright, and then he fooled his elderly father into giving him the coveted blessing of the firstborn. Therefore, many Bible-believing...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus The Lord often referred to Himself as “the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” Isaac was right in the middle of the “big three” patriarchs that were chosen by God to begin the Jewish nation of Israel....
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus Virtually everyone has heroes, and it’s generally a good thing to have men and women of character that we highly respect. There are heroes in conceivably every area of life; history, science,...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus Hebrews 11 begins with, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”. (Read the first article in this series: Who are Heaven’s Heroes in God’s Hall of Faith?)...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus Heaven’s heroes are found throughout the Bible and one specific chapter highlights many of them. It’s Hebrews 11, and it’s appropriately called God’s Hall of Faith. There are many thematic...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus Little did I know that as I was concluding the “Saints in Glory” series in June, that the Lord would take my dear wife, Jenni, to Heaven. I had written the final article but had not yet sent it to...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus It’s been said, “To dwell above with the saints we love, Oh, that will be glory! But to dwell below with the saints we know, well, that’s another story!” Admittedly, there are many challenges...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus In the previous two articles, we addressed how many saints are in glory? From where have they come? Where are they now? How do they look? and What are they doing?’ Let’s now consider who else is in...