excerpt!

"'Now these three remain' says Paul, 'faith, hope, and love' (1 Corinthians 13:13). Faith is the means by which we appropriate the salvation accomplished in Jesus Christ. Love is the outward expression of that faith, which marks the life of the believing community. And hope of that faith, which marks the life of the believing community. And hope is the confident expectation that god's future kingdom will come. Hope is a settled conviction about the future, a conviction giving meaning and shape to life in the present."
-Excerpt from The Drama Of Scripture by Craig Bartholomew and Michael Goheen

What a good reminder of the Truth by which we live.