Extraordinary Hope in an Uncertain Season
Theme: Make Your Election Sure
Lent arrives this year in a world that feels stretched thin across fault lines—race, culture, class, belief, unbelief, and the growing confusion between biblical truth and culturally constructed “truths.” Yet across these fractured landscapes of humanity—where dysfunction, ignorance, and despair often speak louder than hope—the Gospel still whispers (and sometimes shouts): Stand.
As the Great Theologian Howard Thurman once wrote:
“There must always remain in every life some place for the singing of angels… some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.”
– Howard Thurman
Lent is that place.
It is the sacred interruption that calls us—interracially, interculturally, intergenerationally—back to the only foundation that does not fracture under pressure: Jesus Christ. In a season when certainty is manufactured and truth is politicized, we are invited to do something countercultural: make our election sure (2 Peter 1:10). Not through performance, but through faith that endures beyond shifting social winds.
Closing Benediction
Stand in faith with confident expectation.
Make your confession sure.
Let your hope be extraordinary—even now.
Rejoice always, again I say Rejoice!
