Living Hope

Worship Folder

Outline

Hook: How often do you think about heaven?

I. HEAVEN
"I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it until now.” – The Unicorn in C.S. Lewis’ The Last Battle

II. PERSEVERANCE
"God who works for us also works in us. Our faith is his way of keeping us; It is his gift. Why does God use faith as the instrument of his keeping power? Because faith is not our achievement, but trust in God’s achievement.” – Edmund Clowney

III. JOY
“There is already joy enough in the little finger of a great saint to waken all the dead things of the universe to life.” – C.S. Lewis

Take-away: In suffering, all you lose is dross.

Resources

• John Bunyan, Pilgrims Progress
• Edmund Clowney, The Message of 1 Peter
• Karen Jobes, 1 Peter
• James K.A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom