Program: #5013
Topic: Hope
First air date January 7, 2007
WTTW Channel 11 Chicago (PBS)
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Spiritual Journey Segment

 
When Paul and Sue Edison-Swift learned that their daughter Annie was seriously ill, they reached out to their friends and loved ones, and the prayers of so many kept their hope alive.

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Sermon Segment

 
The Rev. Dr. Anna Carter Florence, Assistant Professor of Preaching and Worship at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia, tells us that God promises to do a new thing in our lives that is so extraordinary, so beyond our human imagination, that we can only bow our heads in worshipful response.

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Quotation


I am about to do a new thing...I will make a way in the wilderness and
rivers in the desert.
 
                                                     — Isaiah 43:19

Interview Segment

 
Hosts Daniel Pawlus and Lydia Talbot in conversation with the Rev. Dr. Anna Carter Florence, who says "Every single time I have thought I knew the way, it has become clear that God had a different plan."

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Reflection Segment

 
Christine Chakoian, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest, Illinois, says that hope is believing that God, who dealt us life in the first place, still has more cards to be dealt, cards that we have not yet seen.

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