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Sunday Worship: Inside Hope

13/04/2014

Inside Hope

BBC Radio 4 - Sunday Worship, Inside Hope

Live from the Church of God of Prophecy, Birmingham. Bishop Joe Aldred explores hope.

Live from the Church of God of Prophecy, Winson Green, Birmingham. Bishop Joe Aldred explores the power of Christian hope. Last programme in Radio 4's Inside Lent series.

'Inside Hope'
A service for Palm Sunday live from the Church of God of Prophecy, Winson Green, Birmingham.

In the last of Radio 4's series 'Inside Lent', Bishop Joe Aldred explores the power of Christian hope, a hope that enables Christians to look beyond the despair of death to Resurrection. As Jesus entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday the fickleness of the crowd could have tempted him to despair. A millennium and a half later Martin Luther wrote that "everything that is done in the world is done by hope". He understood that hope is no mere emotion but is a carrier of such energy and motivation that it fuels vision and an imagined new future - a future which Jesus knew God had sent him to embrace.

Leader: Bishop Paul McCalla.
Music directors: Joanne Herlock, Vincent McCalla,
Producer: Philip Billson

Through programmes on Radio 4, local radio and online resources for individuals and groups, BBC Religion & Ethics 'Inside Lent', devised by Bishop Stephen Oliver, invites listeners to join a journey of discovery through this Christian season by reflecting on the nature of a number of very human feelings. bbc.co.uk/religion.

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