This Year, a Butterfly

HPUMC - Sanctuary Sermons (Traditional Worship)

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The start of a new year is all about vision-casting for the future in our culture. We set goals, we make resolutions, and we dream about who we might be when this year comes to its end. Yet no matter how much we plan, there is always uncertainty about what awaits us in the year ahead, and navigating that can be difficult. What do we do when life doesn’t go as planned? Where is God when we are wading through challenges and facing disappointment?

In Lamentations 3:22-24, we see the words of the prophet Jeremiah ringing out from a Jerusalem in ruins. Somehow, when there was every reason to despair, he still clung to hope. In this sermon, we will explore how, like Jeremiah, we can trust that God is at work in every moment—the good, bad, and mundane—transforming us into something new and giving us hope.