The Falls Church Sermon Series Sunday, December 7, 2025 | "High Hopes: Those in Darkness Have Seen a Light” | Isaiah 9:1-7
Dec 9, 2025
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Hope Is Present Confidence
- Hope combines desire for the future with present confidence that it will arrive.
- That present confidence energizes and generates vitality in life.
Hope Spoken Into Historical Crisis
- Isaiah speaks hope into an immediate scene of invasion and deportation in Israel's north.
- He offers a reversal in the midst of historical despair to cultivate resilient hope.
Prophetic Seeing Reframes Suffering
- Prophets function as seers who both speak and see realities others cannot.
- Isaiah offers a vision that reframes present suffering by revealing a truer larger story.