Sermon Archive

When I was a kid, my friends and I used to love playing with a Magic 8 ball, asking it all the important questions that we had at 10 years old, waiting for it to magically give us life advice. And, if we didn’t like the advice, it was so easy to just shake it again until we got the answer we were actually looking for. Those were the days! I wish they made one of those…

This week I had a little extra time at the end of my Foss Bible Study, so I decided to ask my group what their hopes were for either children in their lives or the children of the world. I asked the same thing of the Wednesday night Vespers group, encouraging them to write out their hopes and spend a minute praying those each day this week. It’s powerful to spend some…

Faith, hope, and… How your brain ends this sentence depends on a lot of different factors, including whether you’ve watched a particular Disney movie or you’ve been immersed in the words of Scripture. And, while I find it fascinating to see how we all end this phrase, what I really want to focus on today are those first two words. Hope and faith. While they both seem…