Easter Resurrecting Hope - Jon Tyson

This Resurrection Sunday, Pastor Jon asked a question most of us don't say out loud: what happens to hope when it dies? He opened with the concept of "hope theory" — the idea that hope requires a vision, a pathway, and a sense that you can actually get there — and traced what happens when that vision collapses. The disciples on the road to Emmaus knew that feeling. They had built everything around Jesus, and then watched Him die. Walking away from Jerusalem, they said the most honest thing in the passage, "we had hoped..." Into that exact moment, Jesus shows up, not to people with their lives together, but to two people walking in the wrong direction. His next move of opening the Scriptures, sitting down at the table, breaking bread is less a lesson in theology, than an invitation back to life. All the information in the world doesn't close that gap. What changes everything is relationship with the risen Savior.

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Easter Resurrecting Hope - Jon Tyson is an episode from Church of the City New York by COTC NYC.

This episode is 39:41 long.

This episode was published on Apr 7, 2026.

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