Divide Your Love (10 of 30)
Series: Navigating Home
Scott Maze
1Peter 1:22-25
''What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life'' (Emil Brunner) There are a lot of reasons for us not to be hopeful. I listed some just this week as I thought about this message:
Suicide
Stillborn children
Multiple Sclerosis
Sexual Abuse
Eating Disorder
Special Needs Children
Bankruptcy
Divorce
Meth
Cancer
Aids
Death of Your Children
Peter writes to tell us that our hope rests in God and not in man. Peter is challenging us to place our confidence in God alone. Hope rests in Him. A recent article in The Futurist magazine catalogues some of the worst predictions of all time: ''Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further developments.'' - Roman engineer Julius Sextus Frontinus, A.D. 100 ''Law will be simplified [over the next century]. Lawyers will have diminished, and their fees will have been vastly curtailed.'' - journalist Junius Henri Browne, 1893 ''It would appear we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology.'' -computer scientist John von Neumann, 1949 ''The Japanese don't make anything the people in the U.S. would want.'' - Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, 1954''Nuclear powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within ten years.'' - President of the Lewyt Vacuum Cleaner Company, quoted in The New York Times, June 10, 1955 ''Before man reaches the moon, your mail will be delivered within hours from New York to Australia by guided missiles. We stand on the threshold of rocket mail.'' -Arthur Summerfield, U.S. Postmaster General under Eisenhower, 1959
''Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, 23 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; 24 for ''All flesh is like grass and all its g ...
Series: Navigating Home
Scott Maze
1Peter 1:22-25
''What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life'' (Emil Brunner) There are a lot of reasons for us not to be hopeful. I listed some just this week as I thought about this message:
Suicide
Stillborn children
Multiple Sclerosis
Sexual Abuse
Eating Disorder
Special Needs Children
Bankruptcy
Divorce
Meth
Cancer
Aids
Death of Your Children
Peter writes to tell us that our hope rests in God and not in man. Peter is challenging us to place our confidence in God alone. Hope rests in Him. A recent article in The Futurist magazine catalogues some of the worst predictions of all time: ''Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further developments.'' - Roman engineer Julius Sextus Frontinus, A.D. 100 ''Law will be simplified [over the next century]. Lawyers will have diminished, and their fees will have been vastly curtailed.'' - journalist Junius Henri Browne, 1893 ''It would appear we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology.'' -computer scientist John von Neumann, 1949 ''The Japanese don't make anything the people in the U.S. would want.'' - Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, 1954''Nuclear powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within ten years.'' - President of the Lewyt Vacuum Cleaner Company, quoted in The New York Times, June 10, 1955 ''Before man reaches the moon, your mail will be delivered within hours from New York to Australia by guided missiles. We stand on the threshold of rocket mail.'' -Arthur Summerfield, U.S. Postmaster General under Eisenhower, 1959
''Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, 23 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; 24 for ''All flesh is like grass and all its g ...
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