“We are surprised by God only when we did not believe!”

Christmas can be a time of great joy but it is also too often a season of disappointments – we ask too much! Christmas lists are too long, patience with family is too short – engagements are too many and time is too short!  Days have more tasks and less hours and frustrations seem to be the only thing we have in surplus – where does this come from?  Our expectations.

Expectations are the foundations of hope and the edges of disappointments.  It is unrealistic to think that all our expectations can be met – yet there is a place where our every expectation will be satisfied – but only in Christ!  We will revisit the hopes of Simeon and Anna and walk beside the men from Emmaus and listen to the prophecy of Isaiah – all to remind us of the Expectations promised by God who cannot disappoint!  

I am inviting you to bring your hopes and disappointments – your expectations and frustrations.  Bring them and hear the Scriptures and sing the songs about true hope that cannot let you down!

Pastor Mike