God comes to us, in seemingly insignificant places and borne by easily overlooked people.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Hope (Page 7)
A growing incidence of cataclysmic violence is not a sign of God’s activity, but it does call us to hold on to our hope and look for God’s action in small signs of life coming from death.
The Spirit of God is acting to bring life out of death and hope and vitality out of despair.
Hope is the melody of the future – Faith dances to it today
The unfailing love of God is with us, even in the tragedy, confusion, and anguished questions and doubts.
God is with us to comfort and revive us in the face of horror, but also to challenge us to turn things around.
Jesus meets us with not just words of hope, but with actions of authority and integrity.
Let us keep the festival by standing confidently, and affirming our faith in the God who takes flesh among us, today!
In God’s coming reign, things we find impossible to reconcile will be reconciled.
Love is both a command and an eschatological promise. The promise undergirds our striving to obey the command.
Jesus calls us to do the hard work to prepare the soil of our hearts an minds, ready to grow the fruits of faith, hope and love.
The coming Christ will accomplish his purposes, which will be the best for us but may conflict with what we want from him.
God’s merciful and all-inclusive love is steadfast, not arbitrary, and so fills us with hope in the coming Christ.
Amidst the variety of opinions about the Coming Christ, there is a real message of hope that reshapes our lives.
The Christian life is often lived against overwhelming odds, but the presence of Christ and some basic godly resources make it a good bet.
To those for whom the griefs of yesterday or the fear of tomorrow is just too much, come Lord Jesus.
In Advent, we wait to discern more carefully the One for whom we wait, and the One who waits for us.
We are given gifts from God – faith, love and hope – to help us cope with all that is less than God – especially when ‘principalities and powers’ overwhelm us.
When hopes have been extinguished and all is despair, God comes back.
The coming Christ will continually confound our expectations, no matter how well informed or righteous they may be.