September 12, 2021
by Tom Jackson
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Category:
Hope
| Tags: hope, Biblical hope, God's promises
Biblical hope is the joyful, confident anticipation and expectation of something that is certain; specifically, the joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation. In other words, God wants us to live with confident certainty that He is going to keep his promise to us. ...
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September 12, 2021
by Tom Jackson
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Category:
Hope
| Tags: hope, Biblical hope, priest, an anchor
The picture of an anchor points to something that gives stability in times of shaking or trouble. To anchor the soul means that our souls – our heart, our minds, our emotions – have a source of stability. And that source of stability is the hope we have. And this is where we get into the content of that hope: it is a hope that enters into the inner place behind the cur...
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September 12, 2021
by Tom Jackson
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Category:
Living Hope
| Tags: Christianity, hope, living hope, Salvation
Our salvation is not "manufactured by man" but by God. And the same thing is true of the hope we’re talking about. I’m not encouraging you to start thinking optimistic thoughts; I’m inviting you to step into something GOD has created....
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September 12, 2021
by Tom Jackson
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Category:
Living Hope
| Tags: hope, future, living hope, heaven
Another way living hope is described is as a guaranteed future. He points to two dimensions of the guarantee – He keeps an inheritance safe for us, and He protects us so that we can receive the inheritance He has for us....
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March 22, 2017
by Tom Jackson
| Tags: holy spirit, Power, hope, March, Wind, Gospel, Europe,
The active presence of the Holy Spirit is not something God intended to be limited to the early church; this is also our inheritance in Christ....
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