hope in our temptations on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face.

And this week on the podcast, I'm delighted to have with us, Pastor John Crotz,

who is the pastor of Faith Bible Church in Sharpsburg, Georgia.

He has been there for 26 years.

And praise the Lord, John, for your faithfulness and your work there.

I'm sure it's always been simple, right?

Certainly not as you pastor a community, but there's something to be said about pastors who

stick with the role and the work long term and the benefit that it is to the church for stability,

for teaching, for consistency. And I'm so grateful. We get to see in ACBC some of the

benefits or the fruit of that long-term ministry by so many of the counselors that we see going

through our process and the quality that they are and their devotion to the ministry there in

Sharpsburg. That's just a beautiful thing for me. And so I want to say,

thank you for that. Thank you for your faithfulness. Faith Bible Church is one of our

training centers in the United States. And so I'm just grateful for the way that John leads.

And today what I want him to do is if he can is this is sort of built off of a book that he

wrote recently called Hope, Living Confidently

in God. And I wanted us to continue a conversation and specifically look at passages,

specific passage in the scripture, that really helps us to understand the beauty of hope

and how hope is intrinsically helpful, no matter what scenario, particularly for our case today

when we're talking about temptations, in our own temptations and in the temptations of our

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