UPC Sunday Sermons

The traditional symbolism of the four Advent candles provides the frame for this Advent sermon series. Each of the candles is named for one element in the Christmas story, and represents one Christian virtue: 1) Prophets candle = Hope, 2) Bethlehem candle = Love, 3) Shepherds candle = Joy, and 4) Angels candle = Peace. The unbelieving world values these same virtues, but interprets them quite diff...

Weekly sermons from University Presbyterian Church in Seattle. Biblical teaching centered on Jesus Christ, Scripture, faith, discipleship, spiritual growth, worship, and Christian living.

Weekly sermons from University Presbyterian Church in Seattle. Biblical teaching centered on Jesus Christ, Scripture, faith, discipleship, spiritual growth, worship, and Christian living.

What is our hope? It’s that…beyond this beautiful but imperiled blue planet, there is one who can do for it what it could never do for itself. He’s from far, far beyond this world, but he’s been watching. And now in modest disguise he has surreptitiously drawn near, entered, and become a part of the world in order to rescue and transform it. Jesus is our hope. He hasn’t just said, “I’ll pay the re...

What is our hope? It’s that…beyond this beautiful but imperiled blue planet, there is one who can do for it what it could never do for itself. He’s from far, far beyond this world, but he’s been watching. And now in modest disguise he has surreptitiously drawn near, entered, and become a part of the world in order to rescue and transform it. Jesus is our hope. He hasn’t just said, “I’ll pay the re...

What is our hope? It’s that…beyond this beautiful but imperiled blue planet, there is one who can do for it what it could never do for itself. He’s from far, far beyond this world, but he’s been watching. And now in modest disguise he has surreptitiously drawn near, entered, and become a part of the world in order to rescue and transform it. Jesus is our hope. He hasn’t just said, “I’ll pay the re...

Weekly sermons from University Presbyterian Church in Seattle. Biblical teaching centered on Jesus Christ, Scripture, faith, discipleship, spiritual growth, worship, and Christian living.

Weekly sermons from University Presbyterian Church in Seattle. Biblical teaching centered on Jesus Christ, Scripture, faith, discipleship, spiritual growth, worship, and Christian living.

Weekly sermons from University Presbyterian Church in Seattle. Biblical teaching centered on Jesus Christ, Scripture, faith, discipleship, spiritual growth, worship, and Christian living.

What is our hope? It’s that beyond this beautiful but imperiled blue planet, there is one who can do for it what it could never do for itself. He’s from far, far beyond this world, but he’s been watching. And now in modest disguise he has surreptitiously drawn near, entered, and become a part of the world in order to rescue and transform it. Jesus is our hope. He hasn’t just said, “I’ll pay the re...

What is our hope? It’s that beyond this beautiful but imperiled blue planet, there is one who can do for it what it could never do for itself. He’s from far, far beyond this world, but he’s been watching. And now in modest disguise he has surreptitiously drawn near, entered, and become a part of the world in order to rescue and transform it. Jesus is our hope. He hasn’t just said, “I’ll pay the re...

What is our hope? It’s that beyond this beautiful but imperiled blue planet, there is one who can do for it what it could never do for itself. He’s from far, far beyond this world, but he’s been watching. And now in modest disguise he has surreptitiously drawn near, entered, and become a part of the world in order to rescue and transform it. Jesus is our hope. He hasn’t just said, “I’ll pay the re...

Hope is: taking action today on the basis of what God promises for tomorrow. It’s easier to define than to embrace. Because when we look at the way things are today, our expectations for tomorrow are often pretty low. It’s just being realistic. But hope doesn’t ignore realism. Rather, it struggles to lay against all of our human expectations one great expectation: that the God who promised to bles...

Hope is: taking action today on the basis of what God promises for tomorrow. It’s easier to define than to embrace. Because when we look at the way things are today, our expectations for tomorrow are often pretty low. It’s just being realistic. But hope doesn’t ignore realism. Rather, it struggles to lay against all of our human expectations one great expectation: that the God who promised to bles...

Hope is: taking action today on the basis of what God promises for tomorrow. It’s easier to define than to embrace. Because when we look at the way things are today, our expectations for tomorrow are often pretty low. It’s just being realistic. But hope doesn’t ignore realism. Rather, it struggles to lay against all of our human expectations one great expectation: that the God who promised to bles...

Hope is: taking action today on the basis of what God promises for tomorrow. It’s easier to define than to embrace. Because when we look at the way things are today, our expectations for tomorrow are often pretty low. It’s just being realistic. But hope doesn’t ignore realism. Rather, it struggles to lay against all of our human expectations one great expectation: that the God who promised to bles...

Hope is: taking action today on the basis of what God promises for tomorrow. It’s easier to define than to embrace. Because when we look at the way things are today, our expectations for tomorrow are often pretty low. It’s just being realistic. But hope doesn’t ignore realism. Rather, it struggles to lay against all of our human expectations one great expectation: that the God who promised to bles...

Hope is: taking action today on the basis of what God promises for tomorrow. It’s easier to define than to embrace. Because when we look at the way things are today, our expectations for tomorrow are often pretty low. It’s just being realistic. But hope doesn’t ignore realism. Rather, it struggles to lay against all of our human expectations one great expectation: that the God who promised to bles...

Weekly sermons from University Presbyterian Church in Seattle. Biblical teaching centered on Jesus Christ, Scripture, faith, discipleship, spiritual growth, worship, and Christian living.

Weekly sermons from University Presbyterian Church in Seattle. Biblical teaching centered on Jesus Christ, Scripture, faith, discipleship, spiritual growth, worship, and Christian living.

Weekly sermons from University Presbyterian Church in Seattle. Biblical teaching centered on Jesus Christ, Scripture, faith, discipleship, spiritual growth, worship, and Christian living.

Hope is: taking action today on the basis of what God promises for tomorrow. It’s easier to define than to embrace. Because when we look at the way things are today, our expectations for tomorrow are often pretty low. It’s just being realistic. But hope doesn’t ignore realism. Rather, it struggles to lay against all of our human expectations one great expectation: that the God who promised to bles...

Hope is: taking action today on the basis of what God promises for tomorrow. It’s easier to define than to embrace. Because when we look at the way things are today, our expectations for tomorrow are often pretty low. It’s just being realistic. But hope doesn’t ignore realism. Rather, it struggles to lay against all of our human expectations one great expectation: that the God who promised to bles...

Hope is: taking action today on the basis of what God promises for tomorrow. It’s easier to define than to embrace. Because when we look at the way things are today, our expectations for tomorrow are often pretty low. It’s just being realistic. But hope doesn’t ignore realism. Rather, it struggles to lay against all of our human expectations one great expectation: that the God who promised to bles...

Hope is: taking action today on the basis of what God promises for tomorrow. It’s easier to define than to embrace. Because when we look at the way things are today, our expectations for tomorrow are often pretty low. It’s just being realistic. But hope doesn’t ignore realism. Rather, it struggles to lay against all of our human expectations one great expectation: that the God who promised to bles...