Category: Enduring Hope

Anchored

I turned 32 in January and I have fought my own share of battles. Battles that people ten years older will quake at the magnitude of what I have been through. Sometimes I tease myself, calling myself an old soul. There have been moments I have told God that I

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Hope: A Catalyst for Renewal

It is easy to listen to the world’s words, for we are constantly surrounded by them. Even subconsciously, without knowing, we all find ourselves internalizing the culture’s views and labeling them as truth. I have found myself adopting the world’s definition of beauty and determining my behavior based on it.

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Hope in Him

“Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face.” Job 13:15 Job was a faithful servant of God, but God allowed Satan to take all of Job’s possessions, his children, and even his health. Job was crushed, as all of

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Enduring in Hope

“We are experiencing trouble on every side, but are not crushed; we are perplexed, but not driven to despair; we are persecuted, but not abandoned; we are knocked down, but not destroyed, always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also

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Fixed on Jesus

Recently I found myself reading Matthew 26. If you’re familiar with that passage you know that before Jesus went to the cross, He went to a garden. And in that garden, He got on His knees and begged God to let the cup of suffering pass before Him. He begged

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Building Endurance

My whole life all I’ve ever wanted to be was a wife and a mother. In my mind, I’d meet some great guy in college, get engaged and get married the summer after graduation. Then a couple years later we would start our family and live happily ever after. That’s

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Faith-Filled Hope

Last year I went to a museum in our city to see an art exhibition of eighteen portraits of different people who had been affected by The Troubles—a difficult period in the history of Northern Ireland, the place where I live. It was fascinating to see how a very talented

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Crying Out in Faith

Have you ever walked through a season of long suffering, of crying out in pain? Have you ever felt as if your life was defined by sorrow? If so, you are not alone. I, too, have walked through much loss, grief, and disappointment. It really does bring a familiar comfort

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Fully Convinced

In seasons of suffering, hope can be a difficult thing to hold on to and be fully convinced of. Seasons of hopefulness can turn into seasons of weariness, grief, doubt, and despair as suffering lingers.  For years my husband and I have hoped to grow our family. But hope of

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He Is Faithful Through It All

“But as it is, they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.” Hebrews 11:16 I became a Christian at the sweet age of seventeen. Since then, I have walked

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