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Waiting Hope-fully with Simeon (ft. Gemma Ryan) | Advent 2025 E1

Waiting Hope-fully with Simeon (ft. Gemma Ryan) | Advent 2025 E1

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What does it mean to wait with hope? Gemma Ryan explores the story of Simeon—a man who waited decades for the Messiah—and invites us into three transformative questions: What are you waiting for? Who are you becoming as you wait? And what is sustaining you in the waiting? She shows us how waiting isn't passive but active, and how our seasons of in-between can become the very places where God refines and transforms us.


Key Scripture Passages: Luke 2v1-7, 22-35; Psalm 130; Isaiah 40; Galatians 4v4


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