This was a hard sermon for me to write. There is something that almost seems intangible about hope. As if it is so elusive, that we would rather not think about it. We would rather not hope in hope. Yet hope is central to our faith as Christians. Two of my favorite quotes/ statements about hope that I came across researching this sermon were:
Hope is believing that we live for something more than simply to die some day (Desmund Tutu - paraphrase)
"Hope is passion for what is possible" (Kierkegaard as quoted by Moltmann)
I think I found this sermon so hard to write and did so much research for it because I'm worried that we've forgotten what hope means as Christians. We've substituted heavenly hope for all hope. In other words we make everything about just getting to heaven where everything can be better. But in all of the books I read about Christian hope the idea came up again and again that it isn't just about getting to heaven. As Christians we have hope for this fallen wold that God is doing a new thing. How can we reclaim this very Christian belief about hope that its not just about everything being okay in heaven someday, but is about hope for our current world as well? How can we become passionate again for what is possible with God?
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