Waiting for Hope (2 of 3)
Series: A Christmas
Jeff Ecklund
Luke 2:36-38
I read n recent article about how we spend our time, assuming we live to the average life expectancy here in the states which is the upper 70's.
You'll spend over 4 years in a vehicle before you pass away, waiting to get somewhere. You'll spend 2 and a half years cooking, waiting to eat. You'll spend 25 years sleeping, waiting to get up. You'll spend over 10 years clocked in at work, waiting to not have to work anymore. Women may spend over 2 years in the bathroom. Men spend 2 years waiting for their wives getting ready in the bathroom. (Some of you guys look like you need to spend a bit more time getting ready!) The same article somehow figured out that women may spend 1 entire year of their life deciding what to wear and trying on clothes and such.
I want to focus this morning on some people in the Bible who were waiting.
We see a woman named Anna.
Luke 2:36-38 (NASB95) 36And there was a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years and had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, 37and then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers. 38At that very moment she came up and began giving thanks to God and continued to speak of Him to all those who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.
(not just Anna, but ''all those''...sounds like a lot!)
We also see a man named Joseph.
Mark 15:43 (NASB95) 43Joseph of Arimathea came, a prominent member of the Council, who himself was waiting for the kingdom of God; and he gathered up courage and went in before Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
Last week I talked about how the season of Christmas is upon us...the celebration, the memories...and most of all...the hope.
1 Timothy 1:1 (NIV84) 1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,
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Series: A Christmas
Jeff Ecklund
Luke 2:36-38
I read n recent article about how we spend our time, assuming we live to the average life expectancy here in the states which is the upper 70's.
You'll spend over 4 years in a vehicle before you pass away, waiting to get somewhere. You'll spend 2 and a half years cooking, waiting to eat. You'll spend 25 years sleeping, waiting to get up. You'll spend over 10 years clocked in at work, waiting to not have to work anymore. Women may spend over 2 years in the bathroom. Men spend 2 years waiting for their wives getting ready in the bathroom. (Some of you guys look like you need to spend a bit more time getting ready!) The same article somehow figured out that women may spend 1 entire year of their life deciding what to wear and trying on clothes and such.
I want to focus this morning on some people in the Bible who were waiting.
We see a woman named Anna.
Luke 2:36-38 (NASB95) 36And there was a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years and had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, 37and then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers. 38At that very moment she came up and began giving thanks to God and continued to speak of Him to all those who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.
(not just Anna, but ''all those''...sounds like a lot!)
We also see a man named Joseph.
Mark 15:43 (NASB95) 43Joseph of Arimathea came, a prominent member of the Council, who himself was waiting for the kingdom of God; and he gathered up courage and went in before Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
Last week I talked about how the season of Christmas is upon us...the celebration, the memories...and most of all...the hope.
1 Timothy 1:1 (NIV84) 1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,
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