Hope Notes (3 of 4)
Series: Real Talk
Ryan Heller
John 5:1-15
Today we're continuing the series we began a few weeks ago called Real Talk, Real People, Real Problems, Real Solutions. We're looking at some intimate conversations that Jesus had with certain individuals. Each one had a struggle: Nicodemus had a faith problem. The woman caught in the act of adultery had a sin problem. Now we are turning our attention to a man who had a hope problem.
I don't know if you've ever been through something when you felt like all the hope was sucked out of your heart and your life. Hope is a powerful commodity. You can't live the Christian life without hope. We need hope.
Lack of hope is a contagious disease. Have you ever been around somebody who was down on their luck, discouraged, depressed, and all of a sudden they started telling you all of their problems, and then you got depressed? You thought, ''I was having a pretty good day until I talked to her, and now everything looks terrible, miserable.'' Lack of hope is a communicable disease, but it is a curable disease. God wants to cure us of our lack of hope.
Researchers have learned in recent years that changing a person's mindset can change the neurochemistry of their brain and their body. What you think about has incredible ramifications for how you feel. If you think negative, terrible, awful, despairing thoughts, you're going to feel bad. Researchers have discovered that when you have hope, and you have expectation, and you have confidence in God-even though you're going through some hard times in your life-you will feel better.
Jerome Groopman wrote a book called The Anatomy of Hope. As a researcher and scientist, he has fascinating insights about the power of hope in a person's life. He says, ''Belief and expectation-the key elements of hope-can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins and enkephalins, mimicking the effects of morphine.'' In other words, when you have hope, your body starts t ...
Series: Real Talk
Ryan Heller
John 5:1-15
Today we're continuing the series we began a few weeks ago called Real Talk, Real People, Real Problems, Real Solutions. We're looking at some intimate conversations that Jesus had with certain individuals. Each one had a struggle: Nicodemus had a faith problem. The woman caught in the act of adultery had a sin problem. Now we are turning our attention to a man who had a hope problem.
I don't know if you've ever been through something when you felt like all the hope was sucked out of your heart and your life. Hope is a powerful commodity. You can't live the Christian life without hope. We need hope.
Lack of hope is a contagious disease. Have you ever been around somebody who was down on their luck, discouraged, depressed, and all of a sudden they started telling you all of their problems, and then you got depressed? You thought, ''I was having a pretty good day until I talked to her, and now everything looks terrible, miserable.'' Lack of hope is a communicable disease, but it is a curable disease. God wants to cure us of our lack of hope.
Researchers have learned in recent years that changing a person's mindset can change the neurochemistry of their brain and their body. What you think about has incredible ramifications for how you feel. If you think negative, terrible, awful, despairing thoughts, you're going to feel bad. Researchers have discovered that when you have hope, and you have expectation, and you have confidence in God-even though you're going through some hard times in your life-you will feel better.
Jerome Groopman wrote a book called The Anatomy of Hope. As a researcher and scientist, he has fascinating insights about the power of hope in a person's life. He says, ''Belief and expectation-the key elements of hope-can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins and enkephalins, mimicking the effects of morphine.'' In other words, when you have hope, your body starts t ...
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