11/30/25 - Advent Hope - When Heaven Touches Earth - Pastor Jason Fritz

This Sunday marks the beginning of the Advent season, a time of anticipation, reflection, and preparation as we remember Christ’s first coming and look forward to His return. Our sermon will focus on the theme of hope - not wishful thinking, but the confident expectation of God’s promises fulfilled. We’ll explore the story of Simeon, the righteous man in Luke 2 who waited patiently for the Messiah and finally saw God’s salvation with his own eyes. His example reminds us that hope is active, shaping how we live and respond to the world around us.

We’ll also see how hope transforms our daily lives, whether in our marriages, work, parenting, and friendships. Just as Simeon’s hope brought clarity and joy in the ordinary moment of seeing a baby in the temple, the hope we have in Christ gives us strength, perspective, and courage in the challenges we face every day. We’ll look at biblical examples, like the woman at Bethany who poured costly perfume on Jesus, and modern examples of faith lived with hope, to see how this assurance in God changes everything.

Finally, we’ll consider how this hope is more than a feeling. It is an anchor for our souls, firm and secure. Through Scripture, we’ll reflect on God’s promises, the gift of the Holy Spirit as a guarantee of our inheritance, and the assurance that the best is yet to come. My prayer is that each of us will leave this Sunday renewed in hope, confident in Christ’s presence in our lives, and inspired to live in light of the great salvation God has promised.