by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus | Apr 18, 2019
[Watch the Video “Whatever It Takes” below.] As we celebrate Easter weekend, we remember that Saturday was a day of darkness for the disciples. Jesus was gone and they were alone. With Easter preparations, take time to remember the darkness of another...
by Reasons for Hope* Jesus | Apr 17, 2019
Click on image or download here: Easter Finger Puzzle with Instructions Downloadable PDF Print the puzzle and fold according to directions. Use it as a game to play with children and instruct them on some key facts regarding the Last Supper, Good Friday, and...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus | Apr 17, 2019
[Video Below] When Jesus said, “With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer” (Luke 22:15), He was making reference to an evening meal during the week of Passover. He was not referring to the actual Feast of the Passover, or to the...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus | Apr 15, 2019
Leonard Cohen, as his name suggests, was ethnically Jewish. However, he was not a faithful adherent to the Jewish faith. A Canadian born and raised singer and songwriter, Cohen moved to the US in 1955. His career flourished in the 1960s, which might also have been the...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus | Apr 7, 2019
Psalm 22 is known as one of the three Shepherd Psalms (Psalms 22, 23, and 24; Read: Following the Good, Great, and Chief Shepherd) Psalm 22 is also prophetic and gives a “picture” of the cross from the perspective of our Good Shepherd, the Lord Jesus Christ. In...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus | Mar 31, 2019
Recently, I received an email from Julia, a long-time reader of Reasons for Hope* Jesus resources. She has been defending God’s truth regarding Jesus’ incarnation and asked about our reasons to proclaim it to be true. The virgin birth of Jesus is just as...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus | Mar 25, 2019
In Isaiah, God prophecies that He will create new heavens along with the new earth: Isa 65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. God also said that the new heavens (and the new earth) that He...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus | Mar 17, 2019
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics, behaviors, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities (e.g. animals, objects, even cartoon characters). The term “anthropomorphism” is a combination of two Greek words, “anthropos,” which...
by Chuck Myer, Reasons for Hope* Jesus | Mar 15, 2019
The following question was received at questions@reasonsforhopeJesus.com from one of our regular readers. Pastor Chuck agreed to address it directly by emailing the person who asked. We share Pastor Chuck’s biblical and well-articulated answer on this...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus | Mar 7, 2019
Sons of God is a term used of several people groups in the Bible. The simple answer to why Christians are called sons of God is because Christians are born of God. That makes us “sons” (generically…it also includes daughters) of our Heavenly Father. Let’s...
by Reasons for Hope* Jesus | Mar 4, 2019
Check out our “Get Started List for Lent” (below). Lent begins a season of 40 days before Easter Sunday that are intended to be a time of reflection and preparation. Much in the same way as Advent, Lent is to be a time of commitment, a time of making a...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus | Feb 24, 2019
We end our series of articles during the month of love (February) with a teaching from a long-departed man who is one of “the great cloud of witnesses” (Heb 12:1), those who have gone before us into glory but whose words live on to encourage and inspire...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus | Feb 16, 2019
The Beatles sang, “All you need is love,” and God pretty much says the same thing but not in so few words. The love of Jesus is extravagant love. It is beyond our comprehension. But it is understandable, and God’s love does capture our hearts, stir...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus | Feb 11, 2019
Your Greatest Stewardship – Keeping Your Heart Guarding our hearts is a command and a responsibility for every Christian. It’s found in the book of Proverbs. Keeping one’s heart truly is our greatest stewardship responsibility because, we are told, from out of...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus | Feb 4, 2019
As finite and sinful human beings, trying to understand the perfect, unconditional, generous, and gracious love of our infinite God is very difficult. In fact, we can never fully understand it because, unlike ourselves, God is love. In the essence of HIs being He is...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus | Jan 25, 2019
Every Christian already has peace with God, but the peace of God is a free-will choice. To understand the difference let’s define both. What should we know about the peace we have WITH God and the peace OF God? Peace WITH God Peace with God is an objective...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus | Jan 21, 2019
January 22nd is the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the case in which the US Supreme Court ruled on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions. In doing so, on January 22, 1973, they made abortion legal in the United...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus | Jan 14, 2019
This year, January 20th is National Sanctity of Human Life Sunday. (It’s the Sunday closest to the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Read an abridged history of the day below.) When Does a Woman Become a Mother? We often hear people refer to a woman who is pregnant...
by Reasons for Hope* Jesus | Jan 2, 2019
Thank you to all the faithful readers of the weekly Got Questions? column. We have posted and emailed this column every Tuesday since 2011and it is our hope that, as you read and study the Bible, your knowledge of Jesus will increase and your love for Him will grow....
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus | Dec 29, 2018
The question, “how do I change my life?” is really answered by WHO can change my life. Jesus is the answer. The only thing that brings true and lasting change into the life of any person is the saving grace of Jesus Christ, first in salvation (positional...
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