Do you remember the “Hee-Haw” variety show? One of my favorite scenes each week was when a couple of fellows in a field started to sing: “Gloom, despair, and agony on me – Deep dark depression, excessive misery. “If it weren’t for bad luck – “I’d have no luck at all, “Gloom, depair, and agony [...]
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Hope and Faith – two quotes from William Sloane Coffin
Two quotes from William Sloane Coffin, author of Credo: “Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart’s full of hope, you can be persistent when you can’t be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any [...]
Faith and Hope
Throughout Advent I am sharing thoughts from Bill Coffin, author of Credo – and several other books. Bill was a prophet, pastor, and gadfly in the oinment of many. His thoughts have always challenged and inspired me. He writes: If faith puts us on the road, hope keeps us there.”
TIME
The sermon text for April 10 at Patterson Avenue Baptist Church was John 11. It’s the famous story about the death of Lazarus, and Jesus’ act to bring Lazarus back to life. You can listed to the sermon right now by clicking the sermon titled, which is linked here: TIME!
Incredible Shrinking Hope Restored
We feel like we are at the end of our rope. We are afraid that the hopeless despair of our society will eventually overwhelm and defeat us.
