Hope is vital to life. Hope is the fuel that imagines something good happening when it doesn’t seem to be happening, while the challenges of life keep happening. It is hope that moves us to chase new strategies by day, and then rest and trust at night. It is hope that patiently waits through seasons of pain, temptation, and delay. Hope is kept alive by the promise of a better day to come. 

We all have a need for stability, a steady source of light, protection from threat, the removal of shame, and deliverance from all that binds us. Wanting us to brim with hope, God promised His Son, Jesus, who would meet these needs for us. This Christmas, we want to consider what God promised long ago, how Jesus fulfilled those promises, and what this means for us today.