Hope - Page #21

The Broken Vessel

The rain falls on everyone, saints and sinners alike. We’ve heard that. Its truth is inescapable. We experience its reality every day. We’re headed to our son’s ball game, and we pray for ...

Breaking Out of Our Captivity

We are meant to be spiritually free. It’s why Jesus came to us, dying on the cross, and bringing us salvation. What part should captivity have in our ...

Finding Fault with God

It’s easy to punch holes in the promises of God. We pray, often in desperation, and lay our needs out before God. We trust that he loves us as his very special creation, and that he desires to ...

Storms will come upon the earth. May of 2015 was the wettest on record for much of Texas. The rains came at first, a welcome relief to a years-long drought. The lakes began to fill. Then the rains ...

Proclaiming Our Victory

Youth is a time of protected victories. We want our children to feel the thrill of success without the fear of failure. We keep the harsh truth of life at bay: The world will try to beat us down ...

Launched into Greatness

The ocean is beautiful. Visit a beach on a sunny day, and the water stretches unbroken into the distance, blue and serene. We want to walk along the shore, grateful for the handiwork of God and the ...

Joy Out of Trouble

Earthquakes are never good for humanity, except for one that rocked Turkey in 1999. Turkey and Greece maintained an outspoken feud, with the Greek foreign minister calling the Turks “thieves and ...

Sliding Scale of Justice

War is a tricky business. Sometimes we think we have all the power, and the enemy punches holes in all our defenses. In the years preceding World War II, French Minister of War André Maginot built ...

Our Wilderness Struggle

We feel alone. We live in a world crowded with people, buildings, and events, and yet, sometimes we still feel isolated. We can be surrounded with family and friends; and we can laugh and look ...

The War Within

Living in a war zone isn’t easy. In America a century and a half ago, much of the country was decimated as the American Civil War ripped holes in the fabric of people’s daily lives. In the early ...

Leaving the Land of Forsaken

Steve Errey writes in TheChangeBlog.com how his life has taken an unexpected turn the last few years. Steve considers himself to be what he terms a social butterfly, a person who needs laughter, ...

No Stone Too Great

Aron Ralston, hiker, gained fame he probably wished he could have avoided. He was in a Utah canyon when he became trapped by a rock. Alone, unable to free himself, he made the fateful decision to ...

Rising in Glory

A television travel host stumbled on a Chinese village that was made up entirely of little people. It was a tourist attraction, with scaled-down houses, smaller furniture, and acting stages sized to ...