Light in the Darkness

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Light in the Darkness
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Why did the chicken cross the road?
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We don't really care why the chicken crossed the
road. We just want to know if the chicken is on
our side of the road, or not. The chicken is
either against us, or for us. There is no middle
ground here.
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Although I voted to let the chicken cross the
road, I now have a better plan for the chicken to
cross the road.
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Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly
see the satellite image of the chicken crossing
the road.
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The chicken was forced to cross the road
because of the unscrupulous policies of
pharmaceutical companies. I intend to return the
chicken to this side of the road to confront
these criminals in a court of law.
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In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed
the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed
the road and that was good enough for us.
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Light in the Darkness
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The Light of
Hope
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Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone
who asks you to give the reason for the faith
that you have. . . 1 Peter 315
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Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone
who asks you to give the reason for the love that
you have. . . 1 Peter 315
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Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone
who asks you to give the reason for the HOPE that
you have. . . 1 Peter 315
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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils
because it prolongs the torments of
man. -Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life is full of loneliness, misery, suffering
and unhappiness and its all over much too
quickly. Annie Hall by Woody Allen
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A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But
now you all know there was a man named Jack
Dawson, and that he saved me, in every way that a
person can be saved.
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The only time we took drugs was when we were
without hope, and the only way we got out of it
was with hope, and if we can sustain the hope
then we dont need liquor, drugs or anything.
But if we lose hope what can you do? -John
Lennon The Beatles
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In the factory, we make cosmetics in the store,
we sell hope. -Charles Revson Founder of
Revlon
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Welcome to the pit of despair. Don't even think
about trying to escape!"
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EXPECTATION
HOPE
TRUST
PATIENCE
A confident expectation that what God has
promised will happen
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If only for this life we have HOPE in Christ, we
are to be pitied more than all men. 1
Corinthians 1519
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I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the
Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may
know him better. I pray also that the eyes of
your heart may be enlightened in order that you
may know the HOPE to which he has called you,
the riches of his glorious inheritance in the
saints, and his incomparably great power for us
who believe. Ephesians 117-19
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We have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and
of the love you have for all the saints-- the
faith and love that spring from the HOPE that is
stored up for you in heaven and that you have
already heard about in the word of truth, the
gospel that has come to you. Colossians
14-6
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HOPE
TRUTH 1 Hope provides Stability
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HOPE
. . . we have this hope as an anchor for
the soul. Hebrews 619
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HOPE
TRUTH 2 Hope demands a new way of thinking
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HOPE
I remember my affliction and my wandering, . .
. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have
hope. Lamentations 319, 21
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HOPE
TRUTH 3 Hope provides the will to persevere
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HOPE
Who hopes for what he already has? But if we
hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it
patiently. Romans 824-25
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"A leader is a dealer in hope." - Napoleon
Bonaparte
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Hope is one of the theological virtues. This
means that a continual looking forward to the
eternal world is not, as some modern people
think, a form of escapism or wishful thinking,
but one of the things a Christian is meant to
do. It does not mean that we are to leave the
present world as it is.
If you read history, you will find that those
who did most for the present world were just
those who thought the most of the next.
It is since Christians have largely ceased to
think of the other world that they have become
so ineffective in this.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in.
Aim at earth and you will get neither.
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The Light of HOPE
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