Hope and Resilience: Embracing God's Transformative Love
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"God of light and life, you shine into our lives in your Son, Jesus. Your Spirit strengthens us to face whatever this year will hold. And so we come to praise you for your love and grace, which transforms our days and our lives, and for your wisdom, which enlightens truth for our times." [00:11:52] (20 seconds)
"No power in heaven or on earth can separate us from the Lord. No power in heaven or on earth can separate us from God's great love. Take heart and know that you are forgiven. Thanks be to God." [00:13:16] (11 seconds)
"And these signs are, so why do we need them? Why do we need them? To remind us. Now, sometimes children need lots of reminders. You get reminded to brush your teeth and to put your things away and to hang up your coat. And, of course, grown-ups need way more reminders than children need." [00:17:14] (27 seconds)
"can you see it it's very small it's a little cross a little gold cross and i wear it all the time because it touches me and i can feel it touching me and i can feel the change from it around my neck and so when i wear it it's just one more way for jesus to say to me, Diane, Diane, I'm here with you." [00:18:45] (25 seconds)
"So, in the midst of all of this, in the midst of all of this, my beloved in Christ, where is the hope? Where is the hope? We heard that magnificent passage of scripture from the first letter of Peter, and it is chock full, overflowing. It is bursting with hope and encouragement." [00:30:15] (20 seconds)
"Peter encourages them and us to rejoice when we are persecuted because these are a test of our faith. They're an opportunity, a gift to us, to share with Christ in his suffering. And what he's talking about here, this hope and this encouragement and this opportunity to share in the suffering, he describes... He describes it as an inheritance, a gift." [00:33:24] (23 seconds)
"Jesus is our living hope, a hope that is ours through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. We didn't earn that living hope. It is a gift to us. It is an inheritance. It is imperishable, unspotted, and incorruptible, a living hope preserved for us in heaven, in Peter's words." [00:35:23] (22 seconds)
"And we can rejoice even when we suffer, even when we undergo trials, because these can teach us, trials can, to rely on our faith, to lean on God, and not always on our own understanding, our own cleverness, our own determination." [00:36:09] (19 seconds)
"many of us have had our most powerful experiences of god's presence when we are at our lowest moments because the rest of the time the rest of the time we are able to continue in this delusion we have of absolute self-reliance all things are fine well we're fine and we did it all for ourselves but sometimes it takes suffering to teach us that we aren't toddlers anymore and we don't need to march around loudly proclaiming i do it myself after you're about three and a half you really shouldn't be saying that so much anymore" [00:37:54] (45 seconds)
"we are invited into we're given this great blessing of leaning on the everlasting arms and sometimes we don't learn enough to lean all the way back until things have gotten bad whatever bad is in your context the living hope that we have in christ is this although we do not see him we know him we have faith in christ we can rejoice in our faith with inexpressible inexpressibly glorious pleasure inexpressibly glorious pleasure we can rest in that all the days of our lives and beyond this life so the life that awaits us it's in the life to come i have that hope in christ jesus and i pray you do as well and it's enough hope to get me through my days and to manage my temper and to keep me on track with the things i do to serve christ and his cause and my hope in christ is even enough to give me hope for amsterdam and for the jews for our elder brothers and sisters in the faith it's even enough hope to carry me through what the trump presidency will bring and whatever government is coming next to our country and the tariff business" [00:38:42] (96 seconds)
"the hope i have in christ is enough hope for those i love and it's even enough hope for my enemies so let me finish with a story about hope that i just learned about this past fall now i live in saint catherine's and i live around the corner from the armories of the lincoln and welland regiment our local our local regiment this story i'm going to tell you also takes place in the netherlands on october twenty seventh in nineteen forty four canadian troops including members of the lincoln and welland regiment liberated the dutch city of bergen op zon two days later the canadians entered the town and heavy" [00:40:20] (46 seconds)
"No power in heaven or on earth can separate us from the Lord. No power in heaven or on earth can separate us from God's great love. Take heart and know that you are forgiven. Thanks be to God." [00:13:16] (11 seconds)
"And these signs are, so why do we need them? Why do we need them? To remind us. Now, sometimes children need lots of reminders. You get reminded to brush your teeth and to put your things away and to hang up your coat. And, of course, grown-ups need way more reminders than children need." [00:17:14] (27 seconds)
"can you see it it's very small it's a little cross a little gold cross and i wear it all the time because it touches me and i can feel it touching me and i can feel the change from it around my neck and so when i wear it it's just one more way for jesus to say to me, Diane, Diane, I'm here with you." [00:18:45] (25 seconds)
"So, in the midst of all of this, in the midst of all of this, my beloved in Christ, where is the hope? Where is the hope? We heard that magnificent passage of scripture from the first letter of Peter, and it is chock full, overflowing. It is bursting with hope and encouragement." [00:30:15] (20 seconds)
"Peter encourages them and us to rejoice when we are persecuted because these are a test of our faith. They're an opportunity, a gift to us, to share with Christ in his suffering. And what he's talking about here, this hope and this encouragement and this opportunity to share in the suffering, he describes... He describes it as an inheritance, a gift." [00:33:24] (23 seconds)
"Jesus is our living hope, a hope that is ours through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. We didn't earn that living hope. It is a gift to us. It is an inheritance. It is imperishable, unspotted, and incorruptible, a living hope preserved for us in heaven, in Peter's words." [00:35:23] (22 seconds)
"And we can rejoice even when we suffer, even when we undergo trials, because these can teach us, trials can, to rely on our faith, to lean on God, and not always on our own understanding, our own cleverness, our own determination." [00:36:09] (19 seconds)
"many of us have had our most powerful experiences of god's presence when we are at our lowest moments because the rest of the time the rest of the time we are able to continue in this delusion we have of absolute self-reliance all things are fine well we're fine and we did it all for ourselves but sometimes it takes suffering to teach us that we aren't toddlers anymore and we don't need to march around loudly proclaiming i do it myself after you're about three and a half you really shouldn't be saying that so much anymore" [00:37:54] (45 seconds)
"we are invited into we're given this great blessing of leaning on the everlasting arms and sometimes we don't learn enough to lean all the way back until things have gotten bad whatever bad is in your context the living hope that we have in christ is this although we do not see him we know him we have faith in christ we can rejoice in our faith with inexpressible inexpressibly glorious pleasure inexpressibly glorious pleasure we can rest in that all the days of our lives and beyond this life so the life that awaits us it's in the life to come i have that hope in christ jesus and i pray you do as well and it's enough hope to get me through my days and to manage my temper and to keep me on track with the things i do to serve christ and his cause and my hope in christ is even enough to give me hope for amsterdam and for the jews for our elder brothers and sisters in the faith it's even enough hope to carry me through what the trump presidency will bring and whatever government is coming next to our country and the tariff business" [00:38:42] (96 seconds)
"the hope i have in christ is enough hope for those i love and it's even enough hope for my enemies so let me finish with a story about hope that i just learned about this past fall now i live in saint catherine's and i live around the corner from the armories of the lincoln and welland regiment our local our local regiment this story i'm going to tell you also takes place in the netherlands on october twenty seventh in nineteen forty four canadian troops including members of the lincoln and welland regiment liberated the dutch city of bergen op zon two days later the canadians entered the town and heavy" [00:40:20] (46 seconds)
