This coming Sunday at Eastbrook Church we begin a new preaching series entitled “Hope Rising: 1 Thessalonians for Today.” The past few years have brought many people to the edge of life, leading some to say we are dealing with a crisis of hope. How do we live in the face of a crisis of hope? One of the Apostle Paul’s earliest writings, 1 Thessalonians, brings us face to face with hope in Christ and what that means for life now and in the future. Over the course of five weeks, we will explore what it means to have living hope as we walk through 1 Thessalonians.
Here are the weekly topics for this five-part series:
October 23 – “Beginning with Hope” – text: 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10
October 30 – “Hope Together” – text: 1 Thessalonians 2:1-3:13
November 6 – “Holy Hope” – text: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12
November 13 – “Future Hope” – text: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11
November 20 – “Living Hope” – text: 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28
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