by Denise Pass | Jun 16, 2019
Psalm 68:4-6 (NIV) “Sing to God, sing in praise of his name, extol him who rides on the clouds; rejoice before him—his name is the Lord.5 A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.6 God sets the lonely in families, he leads...
by Denise Pass | Jun 3, 2019
2 Corinthians 13:5 (ESV): “Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!” The natural thing in this life is to drift. And...
by Denise Pass | May 27, 2019
Lamentations 3:21-23: “Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this: The faithful love of the LORD never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning.” This month we have learned why our hope might have let us down....
by Denise Pass | May 21, 2019
Psalm 13:12 (ESV) “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.” Having our hope in the right place makes all the difference in the world. But life presses in and the hopes we have, even when we have tried to do everything “right”...
by Denise Pass | May 12, 2019
1 Peter 1:3-6 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and...
by Denise Pass | May 8, 2019
Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know what I have planned for you,” says the LORD. ‘I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you a future filled with hope.” Our hope was set up to fail in a culture where life stories, even those including hard...