Last week when Jordan quoted Charles Colson about the resurrection, I was reminded of another quote of his that relates to the final affirmation we’re making this week. Maybe you don’t remember who Colson was, but he was a White House official in the Richard Nixon administration, and he went to prison for his part in the Watergate scandal. Most importantly, he was converted to Christ as a result of all of that and founded Prison Ministries, spending the rest of his life as an ardent evangelist for Christ. Colson asked, with the perspective of a former political insider, "Where is the hope? I meet millions who tell me that they feel demoralized by the decay around us. Where is the hope? The hope that each of us have is not in who governs us, or what laws are passed, or what great things that we do as a nation. Our hope is in the power of God working through the hearts of people, and that’s where our hope is in this country; that’s where our hope is in life.” The reality is everyone around you is looking for, grasping for hope, and they are looking for it in various ways and places, all of which are insufficient and empty. "Where is the hope?” It is in Jesus Christ. It is only in Jesus Christ. And for the Christian, it is specifically in his coming at the end of the age. We’ve been given a promise, and we’re awaiting the fulfillment. We’re eager for our faith to be made sight. Join us Sunday as we wrap up our series, The Rule of Faith.

Series: The Rule of Faith: Being human in God’s World
Todd Dugard
Message: Affirmation 5: Hope
Harvest Bible Chapel
Text: Various Scriptures
May 25, 2025

Regula Fidei, The Rule of Faith, is a set of established beliefs that clarify what it means to be in Christ.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

If I live by the rule of faith, I rest in the sure and certain hope of Jesus’ coming...

…confident that every promise of God will be kept (Acts 1:6-11)

2 Peter 1:4a

2 Corinthians 1:20

Acts 1:6-11

…anticipating the moment I will see him face-to-face (Revelation 1:5b-8)

Ecclesiastes 3:11

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Revelation 1:5b-8

1 Corinthians 13:12

…committed to holiness and service in the meantime (Titus 2:11-14)

…and encouraged through this life’s worst (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)

We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it…our whole nature is still soaked with the sense of exile.
J. R. R. Tolkien

The Rule of Faith Creed:
harvestbible.ca/creed_print
harvestbible.ca/creed_phone

Resources
Affirmation 5 - Hope

Mere Christianity - C. S. Lewis
https://a.co/d/5kXr54s

Forty days of Hope - Paul Tripp
https://a.co/d/hLLsdbz

Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy - Mark Vroegop
https://a.co/d/fNJOVMo

Hope in Times of Fear - Tim Keller
https://a.co/d/3PWb2wP

Incomparable - Andrew Wilson
https://a.co/d/cdl7HAY

The Happy Christian - David Murray
https://a.co/d/8B5WWqU