A Living Hope (2 of 10)
Series: Faith at the Margin
Will McGee
1 Peter 1:3-5
INTRODUCTION
Hope... Is the most powerful of all emotions. Without it, we are overwhelmed by our circumstances...
- We are a month into the college football season... Last night, I was watching games... Played in empty stadiums... Those fans have lost hope.
- The New York Jets... Without hope, would play to an empty stadium.
But when we have hope, however, we can face an uncertain future with optimism.
Think about the Civil Rights Movement. The circumstances of Jim Crow provided no signs that black Americans would ever receive equal opportunity.
- But Dr. King's (and others) vision was not rooted in the present circumstances.... It was rooted in a vision of hope for the future.
- Hope is what gave Dr. King, and Rosa Parks, and James Farmer, and Gardner Taylor, and Bayard Rustin, Juliette Hampton Morgan, and Angela Davis, and Ruby Bridges....
- gave him the strength to endure the ridicule, death threats, and burning crosses in their front yards.
- Hope that the arc of history would ben toward justice....
President Snow in the Hunger Games... ''Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.''
George W. Bush - ''The best way to defeat a totalitarian regime of hate is with an ideology of hate.... Wait excuse me... With an ideology of hope.''
Last week, we began a new study on the letter of 1 Peter.
- Peter is writing this letter to a group of Christians scattered all over the world... Who were facing persecution... Marginalization...
- They were afraid... They were anxious... Tempted to lose hope.
- Peter is encouraging them... Showing them how to live out their faith at the margins society. Even when the future looked uncertain.
In this letter, Peter tells us that we have a living hope in Jesus... And he explains this hope to us... In detail...
- What we find is that this isn't a trite or cliché hope... It is a hope that is rooted in the wo ...
Series: Faith at the Margin
Will McGee
1 Peter 1:3-5
INTRODUCTION
Hope... Is the most powerful of all emotions. Without it, we are overwhelmed by our circumstances...
- We are a month into the college football season... Last night, I was watching games... Played in empty stadiums... Those fans have lost hope.
- The New York Jets... Without hope, would play to an empty stadium.
But when we have hope, however, we can face an uncertain future with optimism.
Think about the Civil Rights Movement. The circumstances of Jim Crow provided no signs that black Americans would ever receive equal opportunity.
- But Dr. King's (and others) vision was not rooted in the present circumstances.... It was rooted in a vision of hope for the future.
- Hope is what gave Dr. King, and Rosa Parks, and James Farmer, and Gardner Taylor, and Bayard Rustin, Juliette Hampton Morgan, and Angela Davis, and Ruby Bridges....
- gave him the strength to endure the ridicule, death threats, and burning crosses in their front yards.
- Hope that the arc of history would ben toward justice....
President Snow in the Hunger Games... ''Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.''
George W. Bush - ''The best way to defeat a totalitarian regime of hate is with an ideology of hate.... Wait excuse me... With an ideology of hope.''
Last week, we began a new study on the letter of 1 Peter.
- Peter is writing this letter to a group of Christians scattered all over the world... Who were facing persecution... Marginalization...
- They were afraid... They were anxious... Tempted to lose hope.
- Peter is encouraging them... Showing them how to live out their faith at the margins society. Even when the future looked uncertain.
In this letter, Peter tells us that we have a living hope in Jesus... And he explains this hope to us... In detail...
- What we find is that this isn't a trite or cliché hope... It is a hope that is rooted in the wo ...
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