Living Hope

After an old hymn, a recent song, first released about two years ago!

I learned Living Hope by Phil Wickham and Brian Johnson at the Anglican Essentials Wales Conference in March 2019.  I love it because it expresses the joy of discovering God's abundant love and forgiveness, available to us when we cry out to him for help.  The promise of salvation, freedom from death, mercy and living hope is sealed when Jesus is raised from the dead on resurrection day.   Phil Wickham himself says, "God has rescued us from a place that we could never have rescued ourselves.  Our future was death, but Jesus came in and brought life - a living hope - into our souls and into our lives."

In these difficult days, all the things in which we often place our hope have been called into question.  It's good to be reminded that our Living Hope, Jesus Christ, has proved by his death and resurrection that we can depend on him, because he has overcome death itself.

In this video, Phil Wickham talks about how he and Brian Johnson were inspired to write this song together: