Please enjoy this excerpt from the introduction of Remarkable Hope: When Jesus Revived Hope in Disappointed People. Steadfast Hope Hope. We use the word every day. I hope it doesn’t rain. I hope you feel better. I hope I get to sleep in. With the best intentions, we cast pleasant desires for ourselves and our friends into the air to vanish. We mean well, but we have precious little control over actual outcomes. I hope it doesn’t rain. (But there are … [Read more...]
Hope for this Life
Thomas Chisholm was not a formally educated man. But in 1941 he wrote in a letter, “My income has not been large at any time due to impaired health in the earlier years which has followed me on until now. Although I must not fail to record here the unfailing faithfulness of a covenant-keeping God and that He has given me many wonderful displays of His providing care, for which I am filled with astonishing gratefulness."* You will not be surprised to learn that a man who writes such a letter … [Read more...]
What to do when you’re not “joyful in hope”
When I wrote my first book, Remarkable Faith, I felt like I had made a pioneer discovery. I saw a pattern in the gospels that demonstrated a biblical truth, and I wanted to share it with everyone. Like a child wide-eyed over a fossil dug from a backyard sandbox, the matter of faith as dependence rather than performance had always been there. But I was just discovering the vivid illustrations in the people Jesus met. Writing my second book, Remarkable Hope, was more of an investigation. Not so … [Read more...]