Journey with Hope

The Christian life is a battle—are you ready? Following Jesus means facing trials, temptations, and spiritual opposition. But God hasn’t left us unarmed. Through His Word and the power of the Holy Spirit, we can stand firm, fight the good fight of faith, and live in victory every day.

A minister has so many jobs. He teaches, he corrects, he encourages, he visits the sick, and he is constantly thinking of new ways to...

Being a busybody can harm others and push them away. Peter warns against meddling, gossip, and judgment (1 Peter 4:12-19). True Christian influence comes through love, humility, and letting the Holy Spirit work. Speak wisely, act with grace, and trust God to change hearts.

Are you ashamed of your past? Do you feel like God can never use you for His Kingdom because of the things you have done? Of the four...

YouTube is filled with every imaginable person preaching and/or teaching about the Bible. We can find highly educated and qualified...

How many times, when people describe a failed marriage, have you heard them say, "We just drifted apart"? When a person drifts away...

We live in a world full of noise. A person can barely find anywhere that is truly quiet. From the doctor's waiting room filled with...

The God who created the universe dwells in the hearts of those who believe, transforming them into living temples of His presence. The...

When we know we have been betrayed, what is the first thing we want to do? You probably didn't say, "serve others", but that is what our...

Do you want to eat? Do you want your children to eat? What if you had to make a choice: feed your children or starve? Do we truly...

Why does life feel meaningless without God? Ecclesiastes wrestles honestly with life’s emptiness, fleeting pleasures, injustice, and the search for purpose. Solomon shows that work, wealth, pleasure, and wisdom fail to satisfy when lived “under the sun.” True meaning, contentment, and hope are found only in fearing God and trusting Him, ultimately fulfilled in Christ, our eternal hope.

One of people's greatest desires is that someone truly knows them and then still love them. Of course this also brings with it fear. ...

In John 1:1, the disciple tells us, " In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God ." and in John 1:14,...

When you blind fold someone they may think they are walking in a straight line but yet they may be very far from where they should be. ...

Imagine a world where Jesus had not yet been born. In this world, the Gentiles, everyone who wasn't Jewish, had little knowledge or even...

When Jesus calls, do we answer? What blessings await us when we do answer? Following Jesus: trusting His plan for our lives begins with a willingness to hear His call and respond with faith. Can you hear Him even now calling you to more—more life, more love, more sacrifice, more of Him and less of you? In Luke chapter 5, Jesus is by the Sea of Galilee. Jesus sees a boat and steps into it to preach to the crowd from the water. The owner was no less than Simon Peter. Simon

Suffering servant or conquering Messiah? Israel had long awaited their conquering Messiah. Many sects had arisen claiming that their leader would be him, but each one rose and fell. Our Savior was called by the Holy Spirit of God to go into the desert for 40 days to show who the Messiah really was—a suffering servant sent to heal His people. Old Testament Parallels in Jesus’s Temptation When we see Jesus in the desert we can see Old Testament parallels. Jesus, the second A

Small beginnings don’t mean small endings. From a boy’s lunch to the mustard seed and yeast, Scripture shows how God uses what seems insignificant to bring lasting impact. Through faith, obedience, and the power of the Holy Spirit, ordinary believers become agents of extraordinary change in God’s kingdom.

Imagine a battle you might be facing: a sick child, a job lost, a family member who is not a Christian, loneliness, illness, loss of...

Does your faith ring forth in the community where you live? Does it resound? Is it a trumpet call for God? When Paul writes to the...