Hope and Grief Can Walk Together

For a people group who claim to have so much hope, followers of Jesus often struggle to live with hope in troubled times. We know the hope of the resurrection of Christ Jesus. We believe in this hope. But often we do not know how to appropriate our hope in and through difficult times, like the pandemic we have just been through. Quite often, what we lack is the endurance in our hope. Hope and endurance are two closely connected and yet distinct gospel values. We sometimes need to grow in our endurance in order to grow in our hope....