Hope

Rehoboam the Unready

2 Chronicles 12:14

… I hope no one whom I am addressing would resolve to lead a bad life, but, mind you, it may happen to you, as it did to Rehoboam …

Two Pauls and a Blinded Sorcerer

Acts 13:12

… What a door of hope for this prudent man! What a splendid opening for the two preachers of Christ! Barnabas and Saul can go to court and hold …

Why Should I Weep?

Luke 23:27-31

… But the finally condemned have no prospect of reward nor hope of rising from their doom. How can they expect either? He was full of hope, they are …

A Home Question

… Let our reformation begin at home, for we cannot hope that our remonstrances against the sin of other nations can be powerful, unless we have cleansed ourselves. How …

Joy in Harvest

Isaiah 9:3

… I hope that with many there mingles the second cause of joy, namely, sincere gratitude to God that an abundant harvest will give bread to the poor and …

The Unchanging God Cheering Jacob in His Change of Dwelling Place

Genesis 46:1-4

… Therefore we read, "Israel took his journey." I see the old man revived and stirred up to a high degree of hopeful energy. He traveled some few miles …

Patience, Comfort and Hope From the Scriptures

Romans 15:4

… not the brightness of hope that there is in the New Testament, yet there is enough, even there, to make us very hopeful for the future. And if …

The Rough Hewer

Hosea 6:4

… When carnal hope is killed, spiritual hope begins to live. Thus have we seen the rough methods of tender Love and spied out the devices of effectual Grace …

Spots in Our Feats of Charity

… Now good Christian began to tremble, and so did Hopeful, his companion, yet, as the devils led away the man, Christian looked to see if he knew him …

Nearer and Dearer

Solomon 5:2-8

… The song before us reminds us of A HOPEFUL SIGN. "My heart wakes." What a riddle the Believer is! He is asleep, and yet he is awake! His …

One Lost Sheep

Matthew 18:12

… You would like to pick out a hopeful case, in order that you might feel sure of success. Take another course this time—seek the one which is …

To Sunday School Teachers And Other Soul-winners

James 5:19

… Alas, many professed Christians do not look upon backsliders in this light—neither do they regard them as hopeful subjects for conversion. I have known a person who …

Darkness Before the Dawn

Solomon 2:17

… I would encourage that hope till it becomes a firm conviction and a full expectation! The day will break for you, dear mourner! The shadows will yet flee …

"How Good to Those Who Seek!"

Lamentations 3:25

… There must be something really cheering and hopeful when such a man as that, who dares to look at the dark side of things, can yet venture to …

Compassion on the Ignorant

Hebrews 5:2

… I have nobody to pray for me, nobody to care for me, or I might have some hope." It is clear, beloved Brothers and Sisters, that if you …

Healed or Deluded? Which?

Jeremiah 8:11

… A physician who has to commence his practice by convincing his neighbors that they are sick has not a very hopeful sphere before him. Such is our work …

Creation—An Argument For Faith

Jeremiah 32:17

… We should, without exception, if we have been begotten again into a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, tell to all around us …

The Touch

Mark 5:28

… It is a hopeful sign, a gracious token when there is a determination worked in men that, if saved they can be, saved they will be! I admire …

Young Man, Is This For You?

Luke 7:11-17

… There was then no hope—no hope from the dead man, no hope from anyone in the crowd either of bearers or of disciples. They were all powerless …

A Memorable Visit to Stambourne.–Mr. Knill’s Prophecy

… me, I doubt not, all the more intent upon seeking salvation, and more hopeful of it, and when by grace enabled to cast myself upon the Savior’s …

Pleading and Encouragement

Ezekiel 18:23

… When a man believes that there is no hope for him in the right way, he determines that he will get what he can out of the wrong …

Holding Fast the Faith

Revelation 2:12

… I hope it is a fact with many here present as surely as it was a fact with Pergamos. I trust it can be said of this Church …

The Well-beloved's Vineyard

Isaiah 5:1

… Time is short and eternity is near— how precious is a good hope through Divine Grace! We who are not yet old ought to be exceedingly hopeful. And …

Gathering to the Center

Mark 1:45

… They have a little hope as they look to Him and then a little more, till it comes to a humble trust. Then from a feeble, trembling trust …

I Was Before

1 Timothy 1:13

… evil of that name which they confessed to be their joy and their hope—surely that was the worst form that persecution could assume! He forced them under …

Romans, But Not romanists

Romans 16:1-16

… Beyond this, our text is singularly full of instructive matter, as I shall hope to show you. Without preface, let us notice, first, that THIS PASSAGE REMARKABLY ILLUSTRATES …

The Two Debtors

Luke 7:41

… Indeed, I shall rather be glad, for it will be a more hopeful position for you to occupy than that which you once felt was your right place …

The Little Dogs

Matthew 15:26

… If it is Your will, Lord, it is my will"— she spies a gleam of hope, where, if she had not possessed faith, she would have seen only …

The Duty of the Present Hour

Hosea 10:12

… There is one text which I should like to drop into your ear in the hope that it may drop down through your ear right into your heart …

Our Lord before Herod

Luke 23:8

… This Herod Antipas was the son of the old Herod the Great who had put to death the babes at Bethlehem in the hope of destroying the King …

Underneath

Deuteronomy 33:27

… Christian cried out to young Hopeful, "I sink in deep waters! The billows go over my head! All His waves go over me." Then said Hopeful, "Be of …

Present Privilege And Future Favor

Deuteronomy 33:27

… Now I hope that many of us can say that the Eternal God is our dwelling place— "Home, home, Sweethome, There's noplace like home," says the song …

Mourners, Inquirers, Covenanters

Jeremiah 50:4

… It is a hopeful sign when children ask questions. If we can get them to desire knowledge, the desire will be more valuable than the knowledge, itself. The …

The Lord's Own Salvation

Hosea 1:7

… In ourselves we have neither health, help, nor hope. We are not, we cannot be saved by our works. We dismiss the idea with an honest indignation, each …

The Inner Side of Conversion

Jeremiah 31:18-20

… Every now and then we meet with a man who has seemed hopeful enough till he has taken a wrong turn. And ever since then we have heard …

Warning and Encouragement

Solomon 5:2

… Yet, secondly, there is, in the text, A HOPEFUL SIGN. I think that most of us, though we do sleep, can say as the spouse does, "my heart …

Where Go You?

Job 23:10

… His hope is safely to arrive at the desired haven and he knows which is the haven of his choice. He would not expect to get there if …

Preceding Grace

Galatians 1:15

… The best master of the age is selected to be the master of the hopeful young scholar and the school in which he is placed must be a …

Five Links in a Golden Chain

Titus 1:4

… I hope that I love all Christians, yet I cannot help saying that when I sit down and talk with a Brother who believes the Doctrines of Grace …

The Private Tutor

John 14:24-26

… Perhaps this is an odd way of putting it, for how can hope have a memory? But I mean this, that hope seems to forget that the Lord …