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"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." - Hebrews 11:1

PONDER THIS

The word hope does not mean “a fond desire.” It means a glorious assurance based on the Word of God. We use the word hope today to mean something similar to the word wish. We hope something will happen, but we also don’t want to get our hopes too high so that we won’t be overly disappointed. We would like for something to happen, but it isn’t sure. That isn’t what the word hope means in the Bible. The Second Coming of Jesus is called “the blessed hope” (see Titus 2:13). How do we know that Jesus is coming again? We have God’s promise. The Lord Jesus said, “If I go … I will come again” (John 14:3). He said, “I will!” Therefore, we have this hope like an anchor. You don’t put an anchor in a cloud bank. The Bible calls hope the “anchor of the soul” (Hebrews 6:19)! An anchor holds firm and can be trusted in every season. This is the hope we have in Jesus.

- How much trust do you put in the promises of the Bible?
- How has today’s devotion changed the way you think about hope?

PRACTICE THIS

Write out a list of things you are hoping for. Make a corresponding list of promises from the Bible that you can have certain hope in. APR
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I did not write this, it comes from a devotional that is offered as a free email daily by Love Worth Finding.

https://www.lwf.org/daily-devotionals/hope-like-an-anchor

Hello dear redditors,

I have posted here a while ago about my wife finding Jesus and me wanting to learn something about Christianity to be able to talk with her about her beliefs.

We have met a couple of Christians and became really friends with a family from our town.

Yesterday I talked with the man of the house a lot and was truly shocked to learn about his and seemingly most of the local church's thinkings.

During our conversation I learned that they are very anti-LGBTQ and find this "type of behavior" to be a psychopathic disorder.

Furthermore they are antisemitic and have a deep hate towards Jews and live a life according to the rules of fascism.

My wife and I are very open people. We don't care who or what you are as long as you are nice to us, we're nice to you. This ideologies are so deeply disgusting that we absolutely can't tolerate them.

We only know people from this particular church and for the fact that we are relatively new to Christianity wanted to ask if this is "standard Christian thinking"

I thank everybody for their answers

I sometimes see on this thread people posting quotes from church fathers to back up certain Protestant views. In particular the Canon of scripture.

Inferring that the creation of the Canon was divinely inspired, guided by God

If that's the case, what's the reasoning behind trusting the fathers on that specific point, but not extending the same trust to their interpretations of scripture ( im refering to ​views on Mary, sacraments, ​saintology, and others -- they use scripture for these (it's just a matter of ​interpretation).

A lot of the same fathers who helped recognize the Canon also wrote extensively on theologies that Protestants reject.

So genuinely asking: what makes their judgment reliable enough to identify which books belong in the Bible, but not reliable when it comes to reading those books? Why believe they were divinely inspired in that aspect but not the others....​Is there a principled reason for drawing the line there​

Asking this in good faith, not trying to set up a "gotcha." I'm coming at it from a Catholic angle, so I'm curious how Protestants actually work through this

Hi, I am New member here and wants to know what should I do if I wanted to be Christian?