Summary: This year, sandwiched between Black Friday and Cyber Monday is a much older (and arguably more important) date on the calendar of our faith: Hope Sunday. This Sunday marks the beginning of Advent, the season in which we prepare to celebrate the "arrival," or "advent," of Jesus in Bethlehem. Our text will be Micah 5, which is one of the most beautiful, hopeful, and "Christmasy" prophesies in the entire Old Testament. All week, Micah's words–written to a people besieged in hopelessness 700 years before the birth of Jesus–have been inspiring fresh conviction in me to continue putting my faith in the hope Jesus brought and continues to bring. Downloads
