NEW SERMON SERIES: TAKE HEART - SEIZING HOPE - BEGINS DECEMBER 26 +27

The word “hope” is a powerful word. The ancient Greeks believed that without it, mankind would perish. The Austrian psychologist Viktor Frankl saw men survive the concentration camps of the Holocaust because of hope – and wither and die if they lost it. The word “hope” is tied to meaning. To the future. To rescue.

But hope can also be a very flimsy word. As in “wishful thinking.” As in “it probably won’t happen.”
In the Bible, though, the word “hope” is one of the most charged words in Scripture, serving as both a reminder of what God has done and who He is, and pulling that historical proof forward as a promise. Biblical hope is not flimsy. it is based on the gritty, real-world truth of Jesus, and what He did. And because of this, Christians can sit in very real and very terrible circumstances with very real hope that God is not far, and that God really will act to make things right.