Bethany Community of HOPE

Bethany Community of Hope

How cool is that, a community that is full of hope, committed to sharing hope. In a world where people are hurting and often feel lost hope is a hot commodity.
So what is hope? Often when people speak of hope they are speaking of an optimistic expectation or a wish. We say things like, “I hope my boss likes my presentation” or “I hope I win that cruise.” That’s not the kind of hope we’re talking about here. We’re not talking about empty wishes or shallow optimism. The kind of hope that we’re talking about is a sense of confident expectation based on solid certainty. So Bethany Community of Hope is a community that possesses an expectation built on a firm foundation. What is that expectation, and what is the foundation that it’s based on? As a Christian my answer to those questions is a simple one: Jesus.
God tells us in Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts I have for you says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Now that just blows my mind, God’s thoughts for me and for you are of peace, to give us a future and a hope. God wishes for us to have peace, a future, and hope. He gave us those things through His son Jesus Christ. Christ’s life and death on the cross gives us hope, a confident expectation, because it allows us a chance to have access to and a relationship with God the Father.
While Jesus provides us the confident expectation He also provides the foundation, the very cornerstone of the foundation. God tells us in Isaiah 28:16 Behold I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation, a tried and true stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation. Mathew 21:42 tells us that Christ is that cornerstone. He is the chief cornerstone.
Our hope is to share God’s Hope with you. A hope based on the firm foundation of Christ.
“My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus blood and righteousness,
I dare not trust the sweetest frame but wholly trust in Jesus’ name.”
Cornerstone by Hillsong

In Christ’s name,
Amanda