Trust, Hope, Medicine, Death
Read: 1 Corinthians 15:12-28 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. (v. 22) Theologian J. Todd Billings begins his book The End of the
Jeff Munroe May 10, 2023
Jeff Munroe shares Hopeful, Not Optimistic, where he considers what biblical hope looks like in a world torn apart by so many seemingly unresolvable problems.
Read: 1 Corinthians 15:12-28 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. (v. 22) Theologian J. Todd Billings begins his book The End of the
Read: Psalm 146 Happy are those . . . whose hope is in the Lord their God. (v. 5 NRSV) I wrote in our previous reading about trusting our physicians but not putting
Read: 1 Corinthians 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three. (v. 13) Theologians use the fancy word perichoresis to describe how the three persons of the Trinity relate to
Read: Romans 8:18-30 Who hopes for what he sees? (v. 24) It’s important that our faith and hope are personal. But it’s a mistake if our faith and hope are only
Read: Jeremiah 29:1-14 I know the plans I have for you . . . to give you a future and a hope. (v. 11) Delivering the word of the Lord didn’t make Jeremiah popular.
Read: Colossians 1:15-29 . . . Christ in you, the hope of glory. (v. 27) Our condo has a small piece of dirt, maybe 15 square feet, that’s ours to plant flowers in.
Jeff Munroe is the editor of theReformed Journaland, in addition to being the author of the best-selling book Reading Buechner: Exploring the Work of a Master Memoirist, Novelist, Theologian, and Preacher, is also a poet, blogger, and essayist. His work has appeared in Christianity Today, The Christian Century, US Catholic, and The Reformed Journal.