Skateboarders look at life through the lens of, “Can I skate that?” Non-skateboarders look at rails, steps, and walls and see architecture or design; skateboards see an opportunity and challenge! (Paul Tripp would know; his sons were avid skateboarders as teens.) For Christians, hope is the lens we must look through to see life from this perspective: “We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.”

Preached on November 29, 2009.