When we have hope, we don’t worry about other people as much as we are concerned about ourselves. Hopeful people don’t ignore others, but we recognize that we can change ourselves and we cannot necessarily change others. Numbers 11: 4-6, 10-16, 24-29 | Psalm 104:27-35 | James 5: 13-20 | Mark 9: 38-50

When we have hope, we don’t just rely on ourselves and our own ideas, but we seek the wisdom of those who can guide us. Jeremiah 11: 18-20 | Psalm 54 | James 3: 13 – 4 : 10 | Mark 9:30-37

We talk about the action of prayer, which many time is an action of stopping ourselves and checking in with God for His will and His grace to speak into our lives. Isaiah 50: 4-10 | Psalm 116: 1-9 | James 3: 1-12 | Mark 9: 14-29

We continue our “Hope Does” series by looking at the way that hope creates great expectations in us of what God is able to do in our lives and in the lives of others. Isaiah 35: 4-7 | Psalm 146 | James 2: 1-18 | Mark 7: 24-37

We start our “Hope Does” series by exploring how hope rejects legalism, not only because legalism is not good, but because of how antithetical legalism is to the hope that we are given in Jesus Christ. Isaiah 29: 11-19 | Psalm 14 | Ephesians 5: 22-33 | Mark 7: 1-13