Hope Presbyterian Church In Winston-salem Sermons

Series: Advent 2016Scripture: Isaiah 9:1-7, Colossians 2:1-5 The public seems to think that if you can’t maintain the illusion of mental health, then you are not fit to belong to normal society. You become what the Gospel calls a “leper,” referring not to a physical disease but to a condition of exclusion. You are ostracized because you are not perceived as conventionally normal.—Thomas Moore, “Everyone Should Be in Therapy,” The Huffington Post All praise to the fighter of the night Who rides on the light Whose gun is the grace of the God of the sky  —Andrew Peterson, “High Noon” The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to rescue me from myself. His rescue produces change that fundamentally alters my response to these inescapable realities. … And as he changes us, he allows us to be a part of what he is doing in the lives of others. As you respond to the Redeemer’s work in your life, you can learn to be an instrument in his hand