by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Visit our Pause to Pray page. You will find inspiring short videos of former Presidents who prayed for our nation and spoke words of faith in God. There are also videos of evangelists who call upon the people of...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Last week we addressed a reader’s question about whether the sins of impure thoughts could condemn a Christian and keep them from entering Heaven. (Read: Will impure thoughts condemn me?) The answer in God’s word...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Question: Jesus has answered all my prayers. He has allowed me to organize and lead campground ministries, to do church services in three states and He gave me a great singing voice which I use for His honor and...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Before considering the possible reasons why...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. I have been surfing the web and came across a church group that believes the resurrection was on the Sabbath (Saturday) and that worship of Jesus or His resurrection on Sunday, or any other day, is sinfully wrong...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. This is a favorite question of skeptics. In 1 Samuel we are clearly told that David is Jesse’s 8th son, but a verse in 1 Chronicles seems to contradict this. 1 Samuel 16:6-10, records Jesse presenting his seven...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. [Watch Video Below] “But if not” (or “Even if not”) are three words that should call to mind the three young Hebrew boys in Daniel 3: Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Who are these three, you might be...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Genesis 6:4 tells of giants in the earth prior to the Great Flood in Noah’s day. In the original language of the Old Testament Scriptures, the word for giant is the Hebrew word nephiyl, from which we get the...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Q. I’ve been told that Eve was a helpmeet to Adam and that wives are to be helpmeets to their husbands. What is a helpmeet? A. The word “helpmeet” comes from the King James Version (KJV) of Genesis 2:18, in which...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. [Watch the Video Below] My mother has been with Jesus for more than 12 years. Time definitely has eased the pain of separation, but time has also faded my memories. Circumstances in my life cause me to think...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Tatting Trivia Before addressing the question, “To Tat or Not to Tat,” let’s step back to the early 19th century when a very different kind of tatting was popular. Tatting was the name of a fiber art in which...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Soul sleep is the term used to describe a teaching about the condition of the soul after death. Before going any further, let me say that this is a false teaching. It’s one that is not often spoken about, but it...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Last week I shared how Psalms 22, 23, and 24 reveal the Person and works of our Shepherd, the Lord Jesus Christ. He is our Saviour, our Sanctifier, and our Sovereign. The teaching on those psalms was from a...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. We answered the question, “Is there a hidden message in Revelation 7? by explaining a remez found in the list of the 12 tribes in that chapter of Revelation. Genesis 5 also contains a remez. So, what’s a...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Peter was commissioned by the Lord Himself to be a shepherd. On the shore of the sea of Galilee, the risen Jesus said to Peter, “feed my sheep” (John 21:15-17) and in doing so, Jesus restored Peter to...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. There are many who call Jesus by the Hebrew name Yeshua. Is that better than using the name Jesus? What about Yahweh? We received this question from a reader: My friend consistently brings up the fact that it...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. There was a message nailed to the cross of Jesus. It’s not easily seen, but it’s there. What did Pilate write? He wrote more than what you know. Did Pilate intentionally write the message and have it...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. This is a great question. I believe that Christians err in two ways when it comes to Satan. They either 1) think and worry too much about him and attribute all or most of their sins to his tempting; or they 2)...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. This question is one for which there is not a definitive answer. It is God who saves, so we can never say with certainty who is or is not saved. However, the Bible does provide great biblical reasoning that helps...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. The question or what is love? brings to mind another question, “what is truth?” Reflecting on these two questions should cause us to ponder, “what is true love?” Let’s answer each of these, beginning...