Piercing the Darkness
New Hope's 2021 Christmas series, on the light that comes for a world waiting in the dark.
The light shines in the darkness.
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
John 1:5
Christmas can be the busiest, brightest season on the calendar and still leave us feeling the dark. The Christmas story doesn't pretend otherwise. It begins in a world waiting in deep shadow, and announces that a light has come that the darkness cannot put out.
In New Hope's 2021 Christmas series, the pastors traced that light from promise to arrival, on the hope that breaks before the dawn and the Savior a star once led wise men to find. The light still shines, and it still cannot be overcome.
December 5 to December 19, 2021 · Christmas series
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Before the Dawn
How dark was the world Jesus was actually born into? Pastor Mark Addis works back through the four hundred silent years, Roman rule, and a fractured Israel to show what the people of Isaiah 9:2 were walking through, and why Hebrews 11:1 asks us to get comfortable in the dark.
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Follow a Star, Find a Savior
What if the darkness you're living in isn't meant to stay hidden? Jesus came to shine a light on who we really are, so we could become who we're meant to be.
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Piercing the Darkness closed out 2021 at New Hope. Browse the rest of the year, or join us in person on a Sunday.