
The Hope and Faith You Hold Onto
There is great joy in this season, but the more you know joy, the more you are aware of the struggle it stands against.
In 1978, author Loren Eiseley published an essay called “The Star Thrower.” It recounts a beach walk by a narrator...
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There is great joy in this season, but the more you know joy, the more you are aware of the struggle it stands against.

You shared your inspiration; we’d like to highlight some great advice and inspiring ideas.

If you’re looking for some hope and inspiration, I’m excited to recommend a book that can help just about anyone: 25 Books Every Christian Should Read.

Some books stay around for decades. But why haven’t more books telling stories of hope and faith come along? Has God stopped doing extraordinary work in our lives?

I was recently reminded that sometimes I see the world through anxieties and fears, which drive me to act in ways that are anything but tender.

If we can’t offer words of hope at the right time and place, with power and passion, then let’s not say them.

As we recover from an unusual early snowstorm, here are ten signs of hope I didn’t expect from life coming to a halt like this.

David Wilkerson’s The Cross and the Switchblade is a classic true inspirational story and a testament to the astonishing things that can happen when you claim a bold faith.

Unemployment statistics are still discouraging, and yet I see an expression of hope in each prayer request we receive. Hope doesn’t just cave under discouraging statistics. Hope believes in a better future. Hope prays.

Like many other people, I sometimes find reading the Bible just a bit overwhelming. But when I pick it up and chart my own way in encountering what it has to say, I find things there I never really heard before.

Do you ever read just to grab a factoid or catch up on celebrity gossip? Have you ever read a book just to say you read it? I know an antidote to that kind of reading.

The colleague he lost in the collapse of the South Tower on 911 returned to reassure him that “all is well.”
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