This Sunday I’ll be preaching on Christ our Hope to kick of Advent season. I’ll hit Matthew 1:1-14, discussing the hope(s) the Israelites had due to God’s promises to Abraham (Gen. 12) and David (2 Sam. 7). I’ll talk about the seemingly interminable delay in the fulfillment of those promises.
As is often the case, my mind went back to The Shawshank Redemption. It is one of my favorite movies. The movie is essentially about hope, and its ability to sustain a suffering man. Their hope had nothing to do with Christ, but ours does and is much greater and more powerful (Paul focuses on hope often in Romans). I’d play this edited clip on Sunday, but there is an inappropriate word near the beginning. Includes the exchange about hope between Andy and Red after Andy’s time in solitary, and the ending when Red discovers that hope is not as dangerous as he thought, but is really- the best of things.
Cavman Considers 
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