Today's Sermon:
"Hope for the Heartbroken"

Pastor Tim Trudeau

I. The Christian Life is Marked by Suffering - Vs. 3-9

II. God Comforts Us in Our Suffering

”Comfort” here expresses the idea of “help” that arrives and is experienced as “comfort.” “Comfort” is help that speaks. It brings not merely outward relief but the knowledge that there is One who loves and cares, a God who sees distress and answers lament. Those who are in the midst of distress need something more than the external assistance that a mere technician might deliver. They need the warmth of compassion and concern, and they need it from the One who has power over all things, the ability to bring true help and deliverance…[Comfort] is God’s loving and caring response to human misery, which speaks and promises help in all trouble. - Colin Kruse

III. Our Response to Suffering is Hope - Vs. 9-10

IV. Our Means of Hope is Prayer - Vs. 11

"In prayer, human impotence casts itself at the feet of divine omnipotence. Thus the duty of prayer is not a modification of God’s power, but a glorification of it." - Philip Hughes

V. Our Evidence of Hope is Sympathy - Vs. 4