A Hope and a Future
Overcoming Discouragement
By Don Wilton
(B&H Books, Paperback, 9780805445558, 256pp.)
Publication Date: October 2009
Categories: Christian Life - Personal Growth, Personal Growth - General
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For I know the plans I have for you” [this is] the LORD’s declaration plans for [your] welfare, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11 (HCSB)
Don Wilton, whom Billy Graham refers to as his TV pastor,” reaches out in his new book to everyone from the rat race to the rut-race” who may need a fresh word of hope and encouragement. It is time for you to know that all of God’s Word is without error and is absolute in all of its truthfulness,” he writes. Jesus Christ came into my life and everything changed. This is where a hope and a future begin.”In A Hope and a Future, Wilton introduces readers to the power of God’s Word, helps them establish biblical principles and apply those to everyday living, and guides them toward resolutions that can fill their lives with spiritual purpose instead of earthbound discouragment.Don Wilton is senior pastor of the 6,500 member First Baptist Church in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and reaches thousands more each week through the congregation’s television ministry, The Encouraging Word. A native of South Africa, Don continues to preach internationally and has served as a faculty member at the Billy Graham Schools of Evangelism across the United States and Canada. Wilton and his wife have three children.











