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[84.76 --> 89.62] And I'm inviting you to creative and bold resistance to worthless consumption.
[90.68 --> 91.86] Spend less.
[92.38 --> 94.28] You do not need more stuff.
[94.76 --> 98.94] We need to be a people of contentment and of generosity to where the needs really are.
[99.02 --> 99.88] So are you with me on this?
[100.54 --> 101.78] You're willing to have hard conversations?
[102.24 --> 103.20] Here's my dream.
[103.20 --> 107.84] My dream is that our kids, who are growing up in a consumer culture,
[108.20 --> 112.26] when they get together on Boxing Day or they get together when school starts again,
[112.52 --> 114.92] they do not ask the first question being,
[115.36 --> 116.66] what did you get for Christmas?
[117.66 --> 119.06] That is the wrong question.
[119.62 --> 124.30] And we need to form our kids to know that the center of Christmas is the coming of our Savior.
[124.98 --> 126.18] And we do that in many ways.
[126.46 --> 128.22] But now I'm preaching a different sermon within a sermon.
[128.38 --> 133.94] So the way that we want to do giving this year is by giving to local needs in our city.
[134.04 --> 136.78] Sometimes we raise money for wells where people don't have access to wells.
[136.92 --> 139.62] Other times, like last year, we raised money for refugee sponsorship.
[139.90 --> 144.92] This year, we're giving to two specific needs in our community through two partner organizations.
[144.92 --> 147.10] The first is Safe Families.
[148.08 --> 150.12] We did an interview on our stage about Safe Families.
[150.56 --> 152.98] This organization comes to people in crisis in our neighborhood,
[153.52 --> 156.76] often takes kids for a little while so mom and dad can get healthy
[156.76 --> 160.28] and get the care they need, whatever that care is, so families stay together.
[160.68 --> 163.22] There's a number of families in our community where that's the reality.
[163.98 --> 167.60] But secondly, and relatedly, we're going to partner with Healing Place.
[168.12 --> 170.02] That is a counseling practice in Cloverdale.
[170.38 --> 172.42] One of the owners of it attends our church.
[172.42 --> 178.40] And they provide Christian counseling to anyone who needs it, regardless of their income.
[178.72 --> 182.56] So some people walk in off the street with great need, and they will receive care.
[182.64 --> 187.14] And so we're going to raise money that subsidizes the cost that these people can't cover
[187.14 --> 189.92] so that anyone in our city can receive counseling there.
[190.50 --> 191.80] So you see how these needs fit together.
[192.00 --> 193.74] These are real practical needs in our community.
[194.12 --> 195.50] Mental health, families in crisis.
[195.50 --> 201.02] And if you go to our website or on our church app to give, you'll see neighborhood needs as a drop-down menu.
[201.32 --> 202.88] That's how you can give to these things.
[203.30 --> 206.98] And trust me, that's a meaningful way to spend our money over Advent.
[207.86 --> 210.74] It sure beats plastic that doesn't get used after January.
[211.20 --> 211.70] Just saying.
[211.80 --> 217.44] I remember reading like two years ago, 70% of gifts given to kids don't get used after January.
[218.30 --> 219.56] Let's give to the needs in our neighborhood.
[219.56 --> 219.64] Good.
[221.72 --> 222.12] Sorry.
[223.82 --> 225.14] That's what we can clap about.
[227.28 --> 230.22] So we're doing a sermon series called Words of Waiting.
[230.98 --> 233.96] And as Jonathan mentioned at the beginning of the series or the service,
[234.18 --> 242.82] we're going to be looking at what it means to wait for Jesus coming with hope, with peace, with joy, and with love.
[242.88 --> 246.92] And each week you'll see a corresponding picture on our banners that we're going to open up in each series.
[246.92 --> 249.12] And this morning we're looking at hope.
[249.86 --> 255.10] And if you have a Bible, turn with me to Isaiah chapter 40, and I'm going to read the end of this passage,
[255.48 --> 257.98] but I'll be referring to different parts of it throughout my sermon.
[258.10 --> 264.40] So Isaiah chapter 40, starting in verse 27.
[264.40 --> 272.38] Why do you complain, Jacob?
[273.24 --> 277.48] Why do you say, Israel, my way is hidden from the Lord?
[277.78 --> 280.72] My cause is disregarded by my God.
[281.74 --> 282.94] Do you not know?
[283.98 --> 285.26] Have you not heard?
[286.16 --> 291.28] The Lord is the everlasting God, the creator of the ends of the earth.
[291.28 --> 298.36] He will not grow tired and weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
[299.54 --> 303.04] He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.
[303.52 --> 306.86] Even youth grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.
[307.44 --> 311.22] But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.
[311.78 --> 313.56] They will soar on wings like eagles.
[313.70 --> 315.28] They will run and not grow weary.
[315.74 --> 318.58] They will walk and not be faint.
[318.58 --> 320.58] But this is God's word.
[324.28 --> 328.38] Well, I want to share a story with you about a little community in Connecticut.
[329.56 --> 333.46] There's a community in Connecticut that was situated at the bottom of a valley.
[334.22 --> 339.48] And they just so happened to have this community in a place that the government decided there needed to be a water reservoir,
[339.94 --> 343.84] which would require them flooding the valley where many of the homes are situated.
[343.84 --> 350.72] What the government did was make this announcement and then buy up a lot of the properties so that people could relocate and say,
[350.84 --> 354.22] hey, you have a few months to over a year to find a new place to live,
[354.34 --> 358.32] but at this time next year we are flooding this valley for the sake of everyone else having water.
[359.60 --> 366.76] Now, I want to ask you to imagine what it was like for that community between the time of that announcement,
[367.46 --> 371.18] of the flooding coming and the relocation, and the time it actually happened.
[371.18 --> 373.24] What do you think it was like for them?
[376.68 --> 380.20] That community in that short amount of time fell apart.
[381.30 --> 383.68] People stopped caring about how the business was running.
[383.80 --> 384.86] Many people left early.
[385.24 --> 386.52] Garbage was left on the street.
[386.74 --> 388.66] Very few repairs were done to anything.
[389.14 --> 396.00] And the mood of the community was that of despair because they had no hope for the future of that place.
[396.26 --> 398.14] They knew it was getting flooded.
[398.14 --> 404.52] And this story of this community in Connecticut is a great illustration about the power of hope.
[405.48 --> 405.74] Right?
[406.10 --> 409.26] When you have a hope for a future that is better than the present,
[409.46 --> 412.68] it shapes the way you live in very powerful and positive ways.
[413.02 --> 417.78] If you lose hope for a future being better than the present, it will shape how you live.
[418.02 --> 422.30] And in this case, it was one of despair and giving up on that place that you lived.
[422.78 --> 425.54] Hope is a very powerful thing.
[425.54 --> 426.54] Hope is a very powerful thing.
[426.54 --> 431.06] We were created to live with it, and there are devastating effects when we lose it.
[432.30 --> 435.76] And I will say, and you probably already learned this, but this is something hitting me recently.
[436.94 --> 440.10] Everyone, no matter where you live, no matter where you were born,
[440.56 --> 446.68] you will always have a reason or a circumstance that causes you to question your hope.
[446.68 --> 451.38] You will have some crisis, something going on in your life or your family that makes you wonder,
[451.50 --> 454.28] will the future actually be better than the present?
[454.40 --> 455.16] And can I hope?
[455.22 --> 457.12] Hope is a fragile thing.