Program: #5007
Topic: Hope
First air date November 12, 2006
WTTW Channel 11 Chicago (PBS)
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Spiritual Journey Segment

 
Betty Cramp lives with MS but awakens each morning and retires each night with a grateful, prayerful heart, filled with hope.

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Sermon Segment

 
Debra Samuelson, Pastor for Evangelism and Outreach at Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Atlanta, Georgia, uses the story of Job to help us understand how, when bad things happen, our questions shouldn't be "why" but "who" — because the God of all creation always walks with us.

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Quotation


Then Job answered the Lord: I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

 
                                                       — Job 42:1-2

Interview Segment

 
Hosts Daniel Pawlus and Lydia Talbot in conversation with Debra Samuelson, who says the power of the cross is that Jesus meets us where we are and walks with us, but not only that — God also meets us in Christ in the cross with a promise of new life, and that promise comes in surprising ways.

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Reflection Segment

 
Michael Siegel, Senior Rabbi of Anshe Emet Synagogue in Chicago, says that hope forms the bridge which leads us from darkness to a new dawn.

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