Messiah

by | Dec 3, 2018 | What's Happening

The hope of the Messiah is one of the great themes of the Old Testament. God’s people were told that God would send a deliverer to rescue them and they were longing for this deliverer. When the New Testament opens, there had been the long period of four hundred years...

The Opposite of Hope

by | Dec 2, 2018 | What's Happening

The opposite of hope is discouragement and despair, and it is so easy for these things to be the predominant factors in our lives. We are discouraged so often because we don’t see what God is doing. We are called to live by faith and not by sight (2 Cor 5:7), but it...

Hope

by | Dec 2, 2018 | What's Happening

Dave continued our look at hope this evening, basing his sermon on Is 40:25-31. Hope helps us to cope with all the seasons of our lives. No matter what the season, the single most important attitude we can have is hope, for hope offers us a confidence (Biblical hope...

Hope as fuel

by | Dec 2, 2018 | What's Happening

Hope is a fuel that keeps people going. The people of God had been fuelled by God’s many promises in the Old Testament and by His acts of deliverance for them. Abraham had been fuelled by the hope of a son: the promise God had given him – ‘a son who is your own flesh...