Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.
01042 – Keep Humming
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01032 – Believing in Springtime
Few things are more inspiring than to see a person standing in someone’s winter, helping them believe in a better springtime to come… from Christianity Crocus-Style
00985 – “Let This Affirmation be Our Ringing Cry!”
Let this affirmation be our ringing cry. It will give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future. It will give our tired feet new strength as we continue our forward stride toward the city of freedom. When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and...
00971 – “There is a Love Stronger than Death”
Christianity is…a religion of resistance and a religion of hope. The point of the cross is not finally suffering and death; it is, rather, that a relationship holds. There is a love stronger than death, that can withstand whatever the forces of evil do against it, and...
00964 – Love Places Us Inescapably in Time
The principle of neighborly love encapsulates the balance between time and eternity which is vital to the practice of true hope. Since love is not, for an ideal human being, living in a state of abstract perfection but rather for someone in particular, someone...
00951 – The Wounded Healer Arrives Today
To announce…that the Liberator is sitting among the poorand that the wounds are signs of hopeand that today is the day of liberation,is a step very few can take. But this is exactlythe announcement of the wounded healer:”The master is coming—not tomorrow, but...
00944 – Sin is Our Only Hope
Sin is our only hope, because the recognition that something is wrong is the first step toward setting it right again. There is no help for those who admit no need of help. There is no repair for those who insist that nothing is broken, and there is no hope of...
00823 – Cleats vs. Ruby Slippers
Anticipatory hope is not enough anymore. Participatory hope is the only kind that works now. I want cleats, not ruby slippers.
00809 – Worship: An It-is-Well-with-My-Soul Experience
In worship there is divine action. In our celebration of Christ, something happens. There is an action from above: the Holy Spirit delivers Christ and the benefits of Christ’s death and resurrection to the worshipers. In other words, in worship our relationship with...
00792 – We All Need to Apologize and Forgive
We all need to apologize, and we all need to forgive, for humanity to have a sustainable future. Otherwise, we are controlled by the past, individually and corporately. History easily devolves into taking sides, bitterness, holding grudges, and the violence that...