Hope: Critique that Beckons
/We live in a world in which things are always changing—certainty, health, relationships, even the version of faith we grew up with. And yet Paul, writing to a community tearing itself apart, lands on three things he insists will outlast everything else: faith, hope, and love. To be clear, these aren’t achievements to master or doctrines to defend, but the very shape of a life oriented toward God. In this series, we'll sit with these three ancient, yet lasting gifts and seek to rest deeply into them, even when everything else is stripped away.
This week, Pastor Mike turns to hope—not as a comforting feeling that helps us endure, but as something that refuses to make peace with the way things are. Drawing on Isaiah, the Gospels, and Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, he asks what it looks like to let hope unsettle us into action rather than lull us into waiting.
