Gallery of Hope

The theme of Living Hope for an Advent series sparked the idea to organize our December sermon series, exploring how the coming of Jesus brings hope 
to our personal lives, 
to our circles of family and friends, 
for our neighborhoods and cities 
for our nations and for our world.As we soaked in the scriptures using the word hope and then Scriptures that bring hope, we recognize that our hope is based on reliable information:
We have hope because of who God is: He is not only all-powerful and all-loving, He is present, He comes to where we are. Our future hope is that this powerful and loving God that is with us now and we know has been with us in the past, will also be present in our future, even though we might not be able to imagine now what he will do in that future.We have hope because of what God does: He creates. He creates beautiful things, both people and the rest of his creation, which are unique and precious and purposeful. And because he created a world in which there are choices--and because there is brokenness and separation and woundedness that come from choosing to move away from God and his purposes instead of toward God and his purposes—he relentlessly pursues restoring, reconciling, healing all that has strayed away.