Essentials - Core Values - Share Hope

Andrew Lay - November 16, 2025

"As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery. It is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength at all. Like all the Christian virtues, it is as unreasonable as it is indispensable.” - G.K. Chesterton

Scripture: Mark 5:22-43 Common English Bible (CEB)

“When life crowds in with all its pressures, there is still room for us to creep up behind Jesus – if that’s all we feel we can do – and reach out to touch him, in that odd mixture of fear and faith that characterizes so much Christian discipleship.” - N.T. Wright

Mark 5:37-40 The Message (MSG)

"The worst isn’t the last thing about the world. It’s the next to the last thing. The last thing is the best. It’s the power from on high that comes down into the world, that wells up from the rock-bottom worst of the world like a hidden spring. Can you believe it? The last, best thing is the laughing deep in the hearts of the saints, sometimes our hearts even. Yes. You are terribly loved and forgiven. Yes. You are healed. All is well.” - Frederick Buechner

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