Tag: hope

  • Darkness to Light, Despair to Hope

    Darkness to Light, Despair to Hope

    The world has gone through 80 years of relative balance, where there were no world wars. There were regional ones, sure, and a lot of tension sometimes, but no world war. The economy in much of the world has been on a basic upward trajectory, even though there were a few potholes along the way…

  • Make hay while the sun shines

    Make hay while the sun shines

    We all have dreams of things we’d like to accomplish: places we’d like to go, maybe a book we want to write, or a landscape to paint, or a course we want to take, or well, you get the idea. There could be things that would help someone: work in a charity shop once a…

  • Redemption and the Road Ahead

    Redemption and the Road Ahead

    In our modern evangelical, evangelistic vocabulary, the key word is “saved”, to get saved, to be saved. You hear it a lot. It’s like… we were drowning, in a burning house, or being attacked by a bear, and someone came in and rescued us — we were saved, WHEW. Theologically, we were trapped and steeped…