the HOPE chronicles blog

You may have heard of the old adage, where there’s a will, there’s a way.  The phrase is a pithy way of communicating what many of us who grew up in the Old School know to be true: that overwhelming determination yields results. If the determination is there, so is a way for it to happen. These days,…

The book club I belong to recently completed the second installment in the series Left Behind. For those unfamiliar with the series, it’s a collection of 13 books dealing with a Christian view of Biblical End Times (written by authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins) and weaves a dramatized story line based on the…

As shown in the 2006 movie The Pursuit of Happyness—based on the life of Chris Gardner—the central character had a chance encounter with a man stepping out of a red Ferrari on Wall Street. Whether true or exaggerated for dramatic effect, Gardner (played by Will Smith) eyed the car in awe. He wasn’t in the best financial…