Is it possible to have joy in our world of sorrow? We often feel like our only choices are to fake it, to manufacture it, or to become cynical about joy. As Pastor Glenn Packiam unpacks the promised hope in Isaiah, we begin to see that joy is a gift, a startling surprise to our dead end. In Jesus the Messiah, God announces to the world that it is not over, all is not lost; joy is breaking through like green shoots out of a dead stump. As we turn our face toward Christ, the source of Joy, instead of making idols out of the things that joy comes through, we begin to believe that Joy indeed is coming.
