Sunday Sermon
Real Joy Isaiah 51:11 The people the Lord has freed will return and enter Jerusalem with joy. Their happiness will last forever. They will have joy and gladness, and all sadness and sorrow will be gone far away. As we officially enter the Christmas season we as believers begin a celebration of the birth of Jesus that is filled with real hope and abundant joy. At the same time I also want us to see that this hope and joy is not some mythical idea but it arrives through real struggle and difficulty. The glory of God is shown in the silence that is forced on Zechariah or the questions the Joseph has about what is going on. Think about Mary traveling during the last weeks of her pregnancy that must have been some hard days. What I want to say is that the hope and glory that the birth of Jesus brings was done in the real world with real problems and the daily battles of authentic humans. The hope we have does not happen because we don’t have trouble in our lives but precisely ...