Hope

Love's Labours

1 Corinthians 13:7

… If there has been a little amendment in their life, be hopeful about them. Even if you can see nothing at all hopeful in them, yet hope that …

Out Of Egypt

Matthew 2:14

… The Lord may, in order to prevent His people falling into a worse evil, permit them to go into that which seems hopeful, but ultimately turns out to …

Commendation for the Steadfast

Revelation 3:8

… It may be, you have little strength of mind; but I hope even then grace enables you to be firm for truth. In other things you may be …

Others To Be Gathered In

Isaiah 56:8

… The power and Grace of God are continually drawing men from all nations and kindred and tongues to the common hope, even the Atonement made by the death …

The Underlying Gospel for the Dying Year

Romans 5:6

… A hope that makes not ashamed. Has God really given you a hope? "Oh! "says one, "it is sometimes a very poor hope." Yes, but is it hope …

The Marvelous Magnet

John 12:32

… The man's successors desert his principles, or maintain them with but little life and energy and, therefore, what was once a hopeful effort expires like a dying …

Faint—but Not Faint-Hearted

Judges 8:4

… Let me just mention them in the hope that the strength of Grace may come to you even as it did to Gideon's band. Are you a …

The Free-agency of Christ

Mark 8:22-26

… If there is any instrumentality which God peculiarly blesses to the conversion of souls, take care that you bring your friend under that instrumentality in the hope that …

Beginning at Jerusalem

Luke 24:47

… If you dare pray in that name, if you dare hope in that name, if you hear the music of joy in that name, then in the name …

The Best of All Sights

Hebrews 2:9

… spoil! This is the antidote to all depression of spirit, the stimulus to hopeful perseverance, the assurance of joy unspeakable! II. Nor is this sight a mere compensation …

Fickle Followers

Luke 9:57-62

… Much more in believing than in bearing testimony to anything you have done, yourself, or hope to do, yourself, or resolve to do, yourself! This first man is …

Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled

John 14:1

… Our hopeful spirit has been accustomed to say, all things considered, there are no times like the times present. Think about whether any times have been more vexatious …

Preaching! Man's Privilege and God's Power

Mark 6:20

… But when the sower goes forth to sow seed, he scatters it broadcast upon you that hear, and there is to you the hope that in you the …

Children'S Bread Given To Dogs

Matthew 15:27

… Do try now, my Hearer, thus to find hope in the very hopelessness of your condition, in whatever aspect that hopelessness may appear to you. The Bible says …

A Savior Such As You Need

Hebrews 10:15-18

… They are good people in many senses, and you are very hopeful that there is a work of Divine Grace in them, but they cannot be happy. They …

Swooning and Reviving Christ's Feet

… I hope this happy assembly and its heavenly exercises have melted the Ego within us, and made it, for the while, flow away in tears. Dying to self …

All of Grace

Ephesians 2:8

… To which class do we belong? I hope that, by the witness of the Holy Spirit, we may be so assured of our safety as to sing, "The …

Early Religious Impressions

… There was nothing like cheerfulness in it; but all the way through a flood of declamation against hopeful Christians, against people going to Heaven who are not always …

Wheat in the Barn

… The enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, hopeful that the false wheat would destroy or materially injure the true; but he failed in the end, for …

Psalm 100

Psalm 100

… It breathes the same gladness; it is filled with the same hope, that all nations shall bow down before Jehovah, and confess that he is God. J.J …

Communion With Christ And His People

… Jesus was exceedingly sorry that the hopeful young man turned away, and went back to the world: we know that sorrow. Those who have sympathetic hearts, and live …

A Mingled Strain

Psalm 51:7

… Here is a depth of sorrow and a still greater deep of hopeful joy—"deep calls unto deep." I thought that this expression of mixed feeling might guide …

Taught That We May Teach

Ezekiel 40:4

… But when you have much sadness, be hopeful—there is a joy on the way to you—you can be sure of that. Our blessed Lord reveals Himself …

Spiritual Gleaning

… I hope the custom will never be banished from the land, but that the poor will always be allowed their little share of the harvest. I am afraid …

The Absent Pastor’s Care for his Flock

… It was, therefore, only natural that this very hopeful portion of the congregation should receive a considerable share of Mr. Spurgeon’s attention while he was away. The …

The Unkept Vineyard—or, Personal Work Neglected

Solomon 1:6

… The first is that there are many Christian people—I hope they are Christian people—who will be compelled to confess that the greater part of their life …

The Poor Man's Prayer

Psalm 106:4

… BELOVED, we always reckon it a very hopeful sign when a man begins to think of personal religion. Merely to come with the crowd and professedly to worship …

Seekers Directed and Encouraged

Jeremiah 29:13

… Expect not to find the remedy in the disease! No one turns to his empty purse in the hope that it will supply his necessities, for poverty is …

Frost And Thaw

Psalm 147:16-18

… Let me encourage you to hope, and yet more, to pray for gracious visitations. Miss Steele's verses will just suit your mournful, yet hopeful state— "Stern winter …

Frost and Thaw

… Let me encourage you to hope, and yet more, to pray for gracious visitations. Miss Steele’s verses will just suit your mournful yet hopeful state. “Stern winter …

Spring In The Heart

Psalm 65:10

… hope of a Church having an extensive revival in its midst unless there is continued and importunate waiting upon God together with earnest laboring, intense anxiety, and hopeful …

Spring in the Heart

… hope of a church having an extensive revival in its midst unless there is continued and importunate waiting upon God, together with earnest laboring, intense anxiety, and hopeful …

The Minister’s Fainting Fits

… To see the hopeful turn aside, the godly grow cold, professors abusing their privileges, and sinners waxing more bold in sin—are not these sights enough to crush …

Light at Evening Time

Zechariah 14:6-7

… It is not altogether dark, for it is broken with some gleams of hope. Nor is it altogether bright, for heavy masses of darkness intervene. It is neither …

Timely Reflections

Romans 13:11

… Did we always do it? Well, I hope there are many of you who, during past years, have been the means of bringing some to Christ. I know …

The Question of Fear and the Answer of Faith

Job 23:6

… Unless Christ shall wash me in his blood, I feel I can never hope to stand among the ransomed.” He has not that strange idea of God’s …

The Fruits of Grace

Isaiah 19:18-25

… Let us have hope for the worst of men, and let the worst of men have hope for themselves under the gospel of Jesus Christ. The Egyptians were …

Jacob Worshipping on His Staff

Hebrews 11:21

… He alone who has faith will pray for the redemption of his children, especially when they exhibit no signs of being in bondage but are hopeful and amiable …

The Growth of the Institutions, 1878-1892

… I wrote to her somewhat to this effect : — ' I am very grateful for the proposal ; but I am not very well, and the times are not very hopeful …

Confession of Sin—A Sermon With Seven Texts

Exodus 9:27

… Ah! dear friends, I hope none of you will have such a death-bed repentance as that; I hope your minister or your parents will not have to …