#ForTheHope daily audio Bible

One theme that bubbles up today: The uncertain timing of the Messiah’s return should motivate us to remain faithful so we are ready whenever he comes.

Jesus came the first time to save sinners. He’ll come again to everyone and everything as judge.

One theme that bubbles up today: God invites his people to ask him to work in ways that upset the status quo and display his glorious power and grace.

One theme that bubbles up today: The king’s authority will threaten those who desire to usurp his authority for themselves.

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One theme that bubbles up today: The kingdom of God overturns all human valuations and possibilities

One theme that bubbles up today: We come to Christ initially with child-like humility and then continue to follow Him under the loving discipline of a local church.

One theme that bubbles up today: God’s mighty acts of creation and salvation reveal his enduring and faithful love for his people.

One theme that bubbles up today: For an endurance test, respond in faith. For a relationship test, respond in love.

God is able to punish justly and preserve perfectly.

When our promiscuous hearts grieve God, He steps in to remind us who He is and that whatever we choose in His place is not worth what it costs us.

Even in discipline God does not abandon His people but sustains them for the sake of His glory.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984

One theme that bubbles up today: Doubt…is a wistful longing to be sure of the things in which we trust. ~Alistair McGrath

One theme that bubbles up today: In sin’s ruin, we repent and pray for God’s mercy.

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. ~AW Tozer

Your options are limited, the fruit is evident, and the consequences are eternal.

One theme that bubbles up today: Compare up, not out.

God looks upon the heart because there is where life’s destiny decided.

One theme that bubbles up today: God’s values are complete inversions of the world’s values.

One theme that bubbles up today: Even if we face Satan exerting his power as ruler of this world, we should not be surprised that God defends those who are his own.

Messiah, like the Israelites of old, was brought out of Egypt.

One theme that bubbles up today: Know your Bible to get the right Messiah.

One theme that bubbles up today: God is jealous for his own glory and for the good of his people, which means we should live zealously toward those same ends.

One theme that bubbles up today: Defend the faith, strengthen yourselves, be merciful to those who are weak.

One theme that bubbles up today: The differences between Paul and a legalist: the reason for one’s conduct, the depth of one’s behavior, and the results of personal actions.

One theme that bubbles up today: Even at work you’re a witness by simply wearing robes of grace.

Growth in “godliness” is the hallmark of the true gospel

One theme that bubbles up today: There is no neutral — we either choose Christ’s way, or we fall into the devices of Satan.

One theme that bubbles up today: The only way we rise to the importance of preserving and passing on the gospel is to endure in the grace of God.

Persuading people to believe lies ruins lives in the direction of death.

How to respond relationally & spiritually

One theme that bubbles up today: God reacts to us when we respond to others.

God will not break the broken.There is strength in honesty.

One theme that bubbles up today: The trusting life is the blessed life.

One theme that bubbles up today: What we believe shapes how we live.

One theme that bubbles up today: We can respond to God when we feel forgotten

One theme that bubbles up today: God’s grace doesn’t help us avoid suffering…it’s helps us maintaing hope through suffering.

One theme that bubbles up today: The opposite of idolatry is intimacy. The cure for worshiping false gods is to know the one true God.

We should fear a fake faith.

One theme that bubbles up today: Let’s be a “Jesus first, others second, me third” church for God’s glory

No one is righteous and exempt from God’s judgement, including the state.

One theme that bubbles up today: God seeks the return of everyone — whether returning for the first time or the thousandth time.

The Jews, like you and me, have an eternal choice to make.

One theme that bubbles up today: God’s saving promises to Israel are irrevocable since they depend upon his word of promise and his electing grace.

What do we wait for? The rescue of the body from sin and death that will happen when it is raised from the dead…because hope transforms suffering

One theme that bubbles up today: The Spirit’s presence in our lives inevitably produces fruit pleasing to God. Thus, we are secure. But the Spirit does not do his work apart from our response.

In Christ, we’re not free to do what we want, we’re free to do what we ought.

One theme that bubbles up today: Life’s most important question is “How can one have peace with God?” The answer: to be declared just in God’s sight.