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Series: Hopeful, Not Optimistic

Jeff Munroe shares Hopeful, Not Optimistic, where he considers what biblical hope looks like in a world torn apart by so many seemingly unresolvable problems.

Hopeful, Not Optimistic

Trust, Hope, Medicine, Death

Read: 1 Corinthians 15:12-28 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. (v. 22) Theologian J. Todd Billings begins his book The End of the

Hopeful, Not Optimistic

False Hope

Read: Psalm 146 Happy are those . . . whose hope is in the Lord their God. (v. 5 NRSV) I wrote in our previous reading about trusting our physicians but not putting

Hopeful, Not Optimistic

Hope Dances!

Read: 1 Corinthians 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three. (v. 13) Theologians use the fancy word perichoresis to describe how the three persons of the Trinity relate to

Hopeful, Not Optimistic

Not Just Me and Jesus

Read: Romans 8:18-30 Who hopes for what he sees? (v. 24) It’s important that our faith and hope are personal. But it’s a mistake if our faith and hope are only

Hopeful, Not Optimistic

Hope in Action

Read: Jeremiah 29:1-14 I know the plans I have for you . . . to give you a future and a hope. (v. 11) Delivering the word of the Lord didn’t make Jeremiah popular.

Hopeful, Not Optimistic

Keep Blooming

Read: Colossians 1:15-29 . . . Christ in you, the hope of glory. (v. 27) Our condo has a small piece of dirt, maybe 15 square feet, that’s ours to plant flowers in.