A Thrill of Hope: Hope Foretold

Sermon By Community Care Pastor Janice Shepard
Christmas can often buzz by us in such a hustle and bustle that if we're not intentional, we can miss it altogether. But the Advent Season is intended to help us take pause, to slow down, be still.
Advent helps us recall the eager anticipation and expected hopefulness of God's people while they waited for God's promise to be fulfilled in the coming Messiah. God had promised from the beginning that He would send a Deliverer, a King who would reign forever from David's throne and break the power of sin and death.
Though God's people continued to immerse themselves in sin, God, through His prophets, continued to give hope to His people by revealing more and more about this promised Messiah.
When God fell silent, the people of Israel prayed and questioned,
"where is this promise", "where is God"?
Some of you may be asking these same questions right now. You've been waiting, you've been praying, and nothing has been changing. But just as God was moving through the silence over 2000 years ago, God is moving through His silence today.