Sermon // Advent: Hope

The world we live in can seem hopeless. No matter how hard we try, we can find our circumstances too much to bear. Without hope it is very difficult to face the next day. We can endure if we have hope. The world that Jesus was born into was not any different. People struggled for purpose, for meaning, to provide for their families. The people of God had been waiting for the promised messiah for generations. The star over Bethlehem meant the promised arrival of the hope of this world has come.