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Hope: The mandate for our community – Sept. 1, 2024

September 1, 2024

Scripture: Isaiah 1:1-3, 11-20

Our world is not well. Our politics are not well. Our land and our oceans and our air is not well. We may be anxious. About the future, about elections, about what comes next for you and your family. So this series based on Isaiah will spend time with people who are in the middle of political and social and personal crisis. These are the people of Judah in Jerusalem.

The Bible is for people who are down on their luck. The Bible is for people facing odds and terrible outcomes. That’s when hope shows up. That’s when hope matters.

The shape hope takes in our lives has everything to do with how we believe the universe is structured. Hope, writes Walter Brueggemann, is what this community must do. Because it’s God’s community.

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Hope: The mandate for our community - Sept. 1, 2024
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