Weekly sermons from University Presbyterian Church in Seattle. Biblical teaching centered on Jesus Christ, Scripture, faith, discipleship, spiritual growth, worship, and Christian living.

Weekly sermons from University Presbyterian Church in Seattle. Biblical teaching centered on Jesus Christ, Scripture, faith, discipleship, spiritual growth, worship, and Christian living.

Weekly sermons from University Presbyterian Church in Seattle. Biblical teaching centered on Jesus Christ, Scripture, faith, discipleship, spiritual growth, worship, and Christian living.

Weekly sermons from University Presbyterian Church in Seattle. Biblical teaching centered on Jesus Christ, Scripture, faith, discipleship, spiritual growth, worship, and Christian living.

What is our hope? It’s that beyond this beautiful but imperiled blue planet, there is one who can do for it what it could never do for itself. He’s from far, far beyond this world, but he’s been watching. And now in modest disguise he has surreptitiously drawn near, entered, and become a part of the world in order to rescue and transform it. Jesus is our hope. He hasn’t just said, “I’ll pay the rent.” He’s said, “I’ll rebuild this place and heal you in the process. In this series we talk about our hope. What is the hope we have to share as followers of Jesus and a community on mission at UPC? If we can see behind the mask, we will say in astonishment “My hero!” And eagerly invite others to join his cause.

What is our hope? It’s that beyond this beautiful but imperiled blue planet, there is one who can do for it what it could never do for itself. He’s from far, far beyond this world, but he’s been watching. And now in modest disguise he has surreptitiously drawn near, entered, and become a part of the world in order to rescue and transform it. Jesus is our hope. He hasn’t just said, “I’ll pay the rent.” He’s said, “I’ll rebuild this place and heal you in the process. In this series we talk about our hope. What is the hope we have to share as followers of Jesus and a community on mission at UPC? If we can see behind the mask, we will say in astonishment “My hero!” And eagerly invite others to join his cause.

What is our hope? It’s that beyond this beautiful but imperiled blue planet, there is one who can do for it what it could never do for itself. He’s from far, far beyond this world, but he’s been watching. And now in modest disguise he has surreptitiously drawn near, entered, and become a part of the world in order to rescue and transform it. Jesus is our hope. He hasn’t just said, “I’ll pay the rent.” He’s said, “I’ll rebuild this place and heal you in the process. In this series we talk about our hope. What is the hope we have to share as followers of Jesus and a community on mission at UPC? If we can see behind the mask, we will say in astonishment “My hero!” And eagerly invite others to join his cause.

What is our hope? It’s that beyond this beautiful but imperiled blue planet, there is one who can do for it what it could never do for itself. He’s from far, far beyond this world, but he’s been watching. And now in modest disguise he has surreptitiously drawn near, entered, and become a part of the world in order to rescue and transform it. Jesus is our hope. He hasn’t just said, “I’ll pay the rent.” He’s said, “I’ll rebuild this place and heal you in the process. In this series we talk about our hope. What is the hope we have to share as followers of Jesus and a community on mission at UPC? If we can see behind the mask, we will say in astonishment “My hero!” And eagerly invite others to join his cause.

Hope is: taking action today on the basis of what God promises for tomorrow. It’s easier to define than to embrace. Because when we look at the way things are today, our expectations for tomorrow are often pretty low. It’s just being realistic. But hope doesn’t ignore realism. Rather, it struggles to lay against all of our human expectations one great expectation: that the God who promised to bless all people keeps his promise. Abraham set hope against Hope, one expectation against another, his against God’s. That’s why he’s a model of hope for us. He learned to take action with a God who “gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.” (Romans 4:17)

Hope is: taking action today on the basis of what God promises for tomorrow. It’s easier to define than to embrace. Because when we look at the way things are today, our expectations for tomorrow are often pretty low. It’s just being realistic. But hope doesn’t ignore realism. Rather, it struggles to lay against all of our human expectations one great expectation: that the God who promised to bless all people keeps his promise. Abraham set hope against Hope, one expectation against another, his against God’s. That’s why he’s a model of hope for us. He learned to take action with a God who “gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.” (Romans 4:17)