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Celebrating Christ and Serving Brooklyn
Join the Arts Ministry on the third Thursday (except for February when we’ll reschedule to the Fourth Thursday) of every month in 2018.
Follow the Arts Ministry on Facebook.
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Like most people, I start the new year with a great deal of hope. Personally, I hope my oldest daughter gets into college somewhere…anywhere (Just kidding, Flannery. You will!). Globally, we hope that conflict with North Korea can be avoided. Nationally, we hope the new tax code will stimulate economic growth while enabling us to provide for those who live at risk in our society. Culturally, (and I know I’m speaking for all of us) we hope the third season of Stranger Things isn’t a complete train wreck.
But when we use the word “hope” we often cross our fingers and knock on wood:
Our hoping is sometimes indistinguishable from wishful thinking.
The biblical definition of hope is more concrete.
As we begin this new year, consider what you’ve set your hopes on. Are you hoping for a new job? A smaller waist? A new relationship? Better behaved children (or spouse)? These may be fine desires, and God may grant them to you, but you must distinguish them from what God has explicitly promised. So often we put our highest hopes in things that God has never promised and we get angry when we don’t get them. So let me encourage you to take some time and reflect on those things that God has actually promised to accomplish in Jesus. Put your hope in the forgiveness of sins, in the reconciliation of enemies, in the restoration of broken things, in people coming to faith, in the growth of the church—and expect to see them. Be certain that when God promises salvation he is already making it happen in the lives of individuals, families, cities and the entire world. 2018 is going to be a great year—and that’s a promise.
In Christ,
Matt Brown
Senior Pastor
Share the joy of Christmas! Join us and bring your friends and neighbors to Christmas in the City, Resurrection Brooklyn’s annual special gathering in which we celebrate Christmas through song and story. The program will be followed by a time of food and drinks. Admission is free and childcare will be provided! We hope to see you there.
Pick up some invite cards after church at the welcome table to share with anyone you’d like to invite, or hang it on your refrigerator as a reminder.
This year we will take up a special offering with all proceeds benefiting our Disaster Relief efforts. In the aftermath of three devastating hurricanes this year, please consider how you might be able to give to those in need. For more information on how to help hurricane victims, click here.
Time is something we manage, waste, kill and save. I speak as though it belongs to me and yields to my will, but time marches on, deaf to my demands, dragging me behind. Even when I stay on my feet, I am only keeping pace, like a child holding the bridle of a racehorse. It feels like time is managing, wasting and killing me. I’m the one in need of saving. And that’s why I’m looking forward to Advent.
To download this year’s Advent guide click here.
In addition to the Advent guide, we’ve also created a Jesse Tree to accompany your Advent devotions. The Advent Guide and the Jesse Tree Pamphlet could be used together or independently. Regardless, we hope this pamphlet and the ornaments help you enter the joy of Advent.
Download the Jesse Tree and learn more about its tradition by clicking the links below.
Resurrection has 5 church locations serving Park Slope, Clinton Hill, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Heights, and Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.
Our offices are located at:
367 Jay Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Our secondary/mailing address is:
174 Prospect Park West / APT 1L
Brooklyn, NY 11215
United States