Today's Sermon: Hopefulness
Character Counts- Week 14

I. Life is Often .....- Vs. 8-9

II. In Our Pain, Our Hope is in.....

Definition of Hope:

A. We Hope in.....

B. We Hope in .....

C. We Hope in ....

III. God uses Means to ......

A. Hope Springs from a Community in ____________- Vs.11

B. Hope is Sustained by the ____________

C. Hope is a Matter of the ______________- Vs. 10

“You have to take yourself in hand, you have to address yourself, preach to yourself, question yourself. You must say to your soul: ‘Why are you cast down?’…And say to yourself, ‘Hope in God’ instead of muttering in this depressed, unhappy way. And then you must remind yourself of God, Who God is, and what God is and what God has done and what God has pledged Himself to do.”
-Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“You must be resolute, bid yourself defiance, and say to yourself wrathfully, ‘No matter how unwilling you are to live, you are going to live and like it!...Grit your teeth in the face of your thoughts, and for God’s sake be more obstinate, headstrong, and willful than the most stubborn peasant.”
-Martin Luther