The Culture of Hope Founded on Faith
Monthly Archives: March 2020
Lessons From Behind the Shopping Cart
Shopping has recently become a challenge. Extensive empty shelves loom large in most stores, a phenomenon we in America are not used to. Driving around on less crowded streets is nice, but waiting in long lines to get into a lot of stores early enough in the day to find toilet paper still in stock violates our sense of efficient use of our time. But then, in the middle of social distancing and non-essential…..
God’s Personal Involvement, Continued
My husband’s father lost two teenaged sisters during the flu pandemic of 1918, aunts that my husband never got to meet. Right now we are living through another pandemic and find ourselves in circumstances that can sometimes seem to be a worst case scenario. When bad things happen to us or to loved ones, we find ourselves wondering why.
Many times we hear Romans 8:28 recited as proof against discouragement: “And we know that for those…..
God Is Personally Involved In Each of Our Lives
I’m sure I have read this passage numerous times over the course of my life. But when I came across Acts 17: 24-28a recently again, I was moved by the action God continues to take on our behalf. He didn’t create us and then drop us off to fend for ourselves.
“The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not…..
Metaphors of God’s Strength From the Psalms
Romans 15:13 reads “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.”
When we talk about God as Almighty and the Holy Spirit as having power, as in this verse, we don’t always think in terms of how that affects us. God being the God of hope that He is, fills us…..