Never Beyond Hope

Never Beyond Hope
Author: J. I. Packer
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2005-02-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780830832729

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For all those who have ever felt useless to God, J. I. Packer and Carolyn Nystrom offer this encouraging look at characters from Scripture who all failed, but who God used for his glory. Includes study questions, prayer suggestions and journaling ideas.

Understanding Hope and Its Implications for Consumer Behavior

Understanding Hope and Its Implications for Consumer Behavior
Author: Deborah J. MacInnis
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1601980361

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The marketplace provides rich sources of hope and invites us to the endless pursuit of happiness.

Our Only Hope

Our Only Hope
Author: Margaret B. Adam
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2013-08-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1621898229

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The most popular source of theological hope for American Christians is that of Jurgen Moltmann. Preachers, teachers, and lay people reflect Moltmann's influence, with their hope in a this-worldly eschatology and a suffering God. However, an exclusive reliance on that hope deprives the church of crucial resources in the face of global economic, environmental, and military crises. This book explores Moltmannian hope and considers its costs before looking elsewhere for additional contributions, from Thomas Aquinas's theological virtue of hope to nihilism and beyond, in order to encourage the church to sustain and practice hope in Jesus Christ, our only hope.

An Unpromising Hope

An Unpromising Hope
Author: Thomas R. Gaulke
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725296934

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Written in a theopoetic key, this book challenges Christian reliance on the motif of promise, especially where promise is regarded as a prerequisite for the experience of hope. It pursues instead an unpromising hope available to the agnostic or belief-fluid members and leaders of faith communities. The book rejects any theological judgement about doubt and hopelessness being sinful. It also rejects any hope which is grounded in a sense of Christian supremacy. Chapter 1 focuses on Ernst Bloch’s antifascist concept of utopian surplus, putting Bloch in conversation with queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz and womanist theologian M. Shawn Copeland. Chapter 2 explores the saudadic and theopoetic hope of Rubem Alves. Chapter 3 turns to the womanist theologies of Delores Williams, Emilie Townes, and A. Elaine Brown Crawford. Finally, chapter 4 engages the post-colonial eschatology of Vítor Westhelle, framing hope as nearby in space, rather than nearby in time. Each chapter offers an unpromising hope that may be tapped into by those who wish to affirm belief-fluidity in their own communities, and by those who wish to speak of hope honestly, whether or not, at any given moment, they believe in God or in the promises of a god.

Live Hope Minute

Live Hope Minute
Author: Mark Smeby
Publisher: BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2017-12-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 142455568X

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Become a champion of hope! As we see chaos in the world around us, we want to have hope. But what is hope, and where does it come from? Hope is more than simple optimism that things get better, or a finger-crossed wishing that things go our way. Live Hope Minute explores the life-transforming concept of true hope and how to keep a godly perspective in our current circumstances. Through these short, inspiring devotions: • Your hope will become grounded in unshakeable faith. • Your life will become marked by love that you cannot help but give away. • Your vision will grow and keep you moving toward God and his plan for your life. When you discover true hope, you will find you are building your house on the rock that will not move. Regardless of the storms and challenges you face, you can demonstrate to those around you that life is more than just what we can see or feel. Be amazed at the power and comfort God’s hope can offer.

Education for Hope

Education for Hope
Author: John E Hull
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 448
Release:
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1039145345

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This book traces the little-known history of an alternative school system erected in Canada by post-WWII Dutch Neo-Calvinist immigrants. In less than four decades, this community established a kindergarten to university education system that extended from Ottawa, Ontario to Victoria, BC. This remarkable tradition of education imagines the school as a dissident and transformational social institution. While this book offers the narrative of faith-based tradition of education, the author makes a strong case that educators from diverse ideological backgrounds, can learn important lessons from it about the implementation of an alternative educational vision, teacher-led curriculum reform and a self-formative pedagogy. To supplement this narrative, the author also provides a separate set of theoretical discussions on key issues in school reform, as well as, his memoir as an educator and curriculum designer within this tradition.

Hope and Education

Hope and Education
Author: David Halpin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2002-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134569009

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This book is a welcome addition to the thinking about education and education policy making at a time when the future of education is highly politicised and very negative.

Treasures of Hope

Treasures of Hope
Author: Teresa S. Johnson
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2010-06-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1449095623

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We all have treasures within. When we explore those treasures, “we offer hope to a dying world.” Treasures of hope will release so many others to share their experiences without guilt, shame or condemnation. Even the soft spoken will begin to allow their stories to burst forth like thunder. In order to become an overcomer, deliverance of some sort has to take place. We have each been given a gift, not a gift of gab, but a gift of the word of our testimony. When we use our testimonies to glorify God we show others that though there will always be “tests” the “monies” are never too far behind. Move outside of yourself and inspire others to live. Come out of bondage to secrecy.

Hope and the Longing for Utopia

Hope and the Longing for Utopia
Author: Daniel Boscaljon
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2014-08-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1630874876

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At present the battle over who defines our future is being waged most publicly by secular and religious fundamentalists. Hope and the Longing for Utopia offers an alternative position, disclosing a conceptual path toward potential worlds that resist a limited view of human potential and the gift of religion. In addition to outlining the value of embracing unknown potentialities, these twelve interdisciplinary essays explore why it has become crucial that we commit to hoping for values that resist traditional ideological commitments. Contextualized by contemporary writing on utopia, and drawing from a wealth of times and cultures ranging from Calvin's Geneva to early twentieth-century Japanese children's stories to Hollywood cinema, these essays cumulatively disclose the fundamental importance of resisting tantalizing certainties while considering the importance of the unknown and unknowable. Beginning with a set of four essays outlining the importance of hope and utopia as diagnostic concepts, and following with four concrete examples, the collection ends with a set of essays that provide theological speculations on the need to embrace finitude and limitations in a world increasingly enframed by secularizing impulses. Overall, this book discloses how hope and utopia illuminate ways to think past simplified wishes for the future.