Advent: A Season Of Hope!
Written by adminChris on December 14, 2011
"What the world needs now is, not love, but HOPE! Without hope, without some sense that this is not all there is, that there truly is a God who will come and restore all things, there will never be much love, at least not the kind of love that is truly Christian. And it is this hope, this expectation moving toward faith, that Advent properly observed as a preparation for Christmas can express so well."
"If our hope is only in our circumstances, as we define them to be good or as we want them to be to make us happy, we will always be disappointed. That is why we hope, not in circumstances, but in God. He has continually, over the span of four thousand years, revealed himself to be a God of newness, of possibility, of redemption, the recovery or transformation of possibility from endings that goes beyond what we can think or even imagine…………"
Hear more on Familytime on the 14 December, and for the passages in full you can check out the following links:-
http://www.crivoice.org/carols.html.
http://www.crivoice.org/cyadvent.html
