The document discusses three biblical concepts: faith, hope, and love. It defines hope as a confident expectation of something good that is a gift dependent on a promise. It describes three stages in the parable of the prodigal son: alive in the father's house, dead in a far country, and alive again in the father's arms. It also lists three ways faith may decline: sudden spiritual suicide, gradual starvation of the soul, and strangulation by sin. Finally, it quotes a passage from Colossians about continuing in faith and not being moved from the hope of the gospel.