Human creatures are subjected to all of the buffeting

that comes to us from one degree and another.

And we long to have something of permanence,

something of stability,

and what the New Testament says is that anchor

for our souls, not for our ships, but for our souls,

is this idea of hope.

If we're honest for ourselves, we probably think about the things of this world

quite a bit more than we think about the things of God.

We look to our stability and comfort in earthly things,

our personal or professional accomplishments, our possessions.

Today, on renewing your mind,

RC Sproul teaches us the radical difference between the hope of this world

and the hope that Christ gives His people.

One of my favorite games for sheer enjoyment is trivia.

In fact, as we prepare for these lectures,

one of the things that people don't know who aren't in the studio

where we do these things is that as a matter of procedure,

before we begin each taping,

I have to have a trivia question from the staff on baseball

just so that I can warm up the little gray cells as Hercute Perot used to say.

But I want to begin with a trivia question today,

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