Tashara Angelle on July 20, 2025

In this sermon, Tashara draws from her childhood experience of living without air conditioning in Texas summers to explore Abraham's story of waiting for God's promises in "the heat of the day." She challenges the congregation to move from "resistant hopelessness" to "receptive hopefulness" by literally and figuratively looking up to see the neighbors around them. Through humor, personal vulnerability, and biblical insight, she argues that hope is renewed not by waiting passively for God to act, but by stepping out of our own problems to serve others—even the neighbors we'd rather avoid. The message emphasizes that God appears at the intersection where "the hurt and the helping meet."