Illustrations About Hope

Afraid to Hope

It is challenging to amp oneself up for an optimistic new year when the wounds of the previous year still gape. Instead of hope, we

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Better Days

We often struggle for hope. Depending on the vantage point, some people won’t be able to grasp the struggles that others face. Poverty and violence

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Hope In The Church

In a 2005 question-and-answer session following a public lecture in Denver, Colorado, Barbara Brown Taylor was asked if she had any hope for the church.

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Is the Past your Future

Imagine that you started your career working for yourself. You enjoyed thefreedom that comes with self-direction. Unfortunately, you also developed badhabits that eventually forced you

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Finishing The Race

When Paul described the Christian walk, he sometimes likened it to a race. Using the images of the Roman Colosseum, he pictures us running while

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Hope Through Love

In the movie Spider-Man: No Way Home (directed by Jon Watts [Columbia Pictures, 2021]), Peter Parker realizes that the only way to save the multiverse

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Good News

When a weary world receives good news, it rejoices. It pays attention and wants more. During the height of the global shutdown from the COVID-19

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A Hopeful Hymn

In 2017, while imprisoned in Turkey for his faith, missionary Andrew Brunson wrote the hymn, “You Are Worthy of My All.” After being arrested and

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Living A Life Of Hope

Emily Dickinson wrote a beautiful poem about hope in the face of trials and opposition, “‘Hope’ Is the Thing with Feathers” (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42889/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers-314). Hope is depicted

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Hope-Letters

Despair Into Hope

In movies and literature, the main characters often face dark times and difficult circumstances. When the situation seems hopeless, something happens to turn their despair

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Anchors

This video shows how an anchor works in the water. The Ultra Anchor (the one seen in this video) buries itself deep in the ground

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Messing Up

On his podcast The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, Mike Cosper interviewed Joshua Harris about Harris’s path from evangelical golden boy to leaving the

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Giving Him Time

In her book In Pursuit of Love, Rebecca Bender shares how she was lured by a boyfriend from the safety of friends and family into

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