Hope, Part 1: Proclamation of Hope - Joel Schmidgall

Published: Dec. 6, 2020, 1 a.m.

b'Hope had and has been at the core of Jewish faith for its entirety of existence: hoping for freedom from slavery, hoping for justice, hoping for peace, hoping for a savior. When Christ came, heaven touched earth in a new and profound way. God\\u2019s glory was being shown, not by splitting a sea, with a pillar of fire, or by the glowing face of Moses. God\\u2019s glory was embodied in the small and breakable form of the human life of Jesus. Jesus is our hope. He is THE hope. \\n\\nWhen the shepherds found Christ, they couldn\\u2019t help but proclaim hope to the world around them. The Magi\\u2019s natural reaction was to celebrate hope in the presence of Christ. And all who came across Jesus\\u2019 path were confronted with a revelation of hope. During this series, we want to light a candle to the profound gift of hope that we find in Christ.'