August 2025
Dear Friends,
“We need hope … For a person to have no hope just sucks the blue out of every sky” (Max Lucado).
We all want to be sure that the things we are doing today are going to make our lives, or the lives of those we care about, better. If we don’t have that hope, why do anything at all? “Hope is a spark inside you that brings a smile to your lips, a light that shows on your face, a feeling that lifts your head and pulls you forward.” That’s why dashed hopes are so hard to bear and why hopelessness is so destructive.
The word on the street is that some young adults are discovering hope in one man, a man that their great grandparents knew well but who was buried under an avalanche of ‘liberating’ ideas, experiences and new ways of living in the 20th Century. The promised liberation was elusive, but some of the children and grandchildren of those whose lives were engulfed by cruel despair are once again finding hope in Jesus Christ and his radical call.
‘Hope Explored’ is a brilliant and clear explanation of the things that our culture has forgotten – the hope that Jesus offers – and the evidence for thinking that this is not just wishful-thinking nonsense but a “joyful expectation for the future, based on true events in the past, which changes everything about my present”.
‘Hope Explored’ is an informal three-week course. It’s for anyone who wants to find hope, peace and purpose in life, whatever your age or circumstances. The next group of explorers will be meeting on three Wednesday evenings beginning on 6th August. It’s not too late to join us and you will be very welcome. Do please ring, email or text me if you want to ask more or to let me know that you are interested in joining us.
Sincerely
Graham Burrows
