Living with Hope in a Hopeless World

An American pilot shot down over Vietnam spent eight years in captivity, torture and darkness, and when asked who did not survive those years, he answered simply: the optimists. That harrowing story opens a reflection on the difference between false optimism and real hope, the kind that looks brutal facts in the eye. The sermon moves to Isaiah’s promise about the people walking in darkness (Isaiah 9) and to the Word that became flesh (John 1), then shows how that hope actually reaches people in hard places. Listen if you are looking for a hope that does not need reality dressed up.