What does Tribe teach about christmas hope?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At Tribe, the teaching on Christmas hope starts with the weight of prophecy. Brian walked the congregation through ancient words from Isaiah and Micah, written hundreds of years before Jesus arrived, and asked them to let those words land with fresh force rather than slide past in holiday familiarity. The virgin birth foretold in Isaiah 7:14, the birthplace named in Micah 5:2, the champion described in Isaiah 9, all of these were specific, verifiable promises that found their fulfillment in one person. Brian notes that the statistical odds of that happening are staggering, and says it plainly: "The odds are so staggeringly impossible. It should cause the human heart to just bow in awe and amazement."
The hope that Christmas carries is not a feeling to be worked up seasonally. It is grounded in who Jesus is and what His arrival means. Brian drew out the name Immanuel, God with us, not as a name on a birth certificate but as a title describing what actually happened when Jesus came. The Holy Spirit hovering over Mary mirrors the Spirit hovering over the chaos in Genesis 1, and the result in both cases is new life breaking into what seemed impossible. Jesus was not a baby who had to grow into divinity. He was born with the intrinsic qualities of God, and His arrival in human form was the answer to every longing the prophets described, for a liberator, a champion, a light in deep darkness.
For anyone sitting with that hope right now, Brian brings it to a direct point: "Hope is here. Would you receive the miracle of the arrival of Jesus in your heart?" The fulfilled prophecies are not just historical curiosities. They are evidence that God keeps His word in ways that exceed what people think to ask for. And if He could orchestrate the arrival of the Savior of the world against impossible odds, Brian's answer to personal despair or doubt is grounded in exactly that track record: "If I can send the savior of the world to defy those statistical odds, don't you think that I've got something special and wonderful for you."
Taught from Isaiah 7:14 · Micah 5:2 · Isaiah 9:1-7 · Luke 2:1-7 · Genesis 1
“The odds are so staggeringly impossible. It should cause the human heart to just bow in awe and amazement.”
From Fulfilled： The Prophecies of Christmas
The passage taught · Genesis 1
1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
2 The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
3 God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
4 God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- December 22, 2025 Fulfilled： The Prophecies of Christmas Brian Hunter walks through two Old Testament prophecies, the virgin birth and Bethlehem, and what the mathematical odds of fulfilling even four messianic prophecies say about hope.
- December 21, 2025 The Virgin and The Village A Wyoming pastor examines two ancient prophecies about the Messiah's birth, a virgin mother and a small forgotten town, and what their fulfillment means for us today.
- December 15, 2025 Born Champion： Isaiah's Prophecy of the King Brian Hunter preaches on Isaiah 9, showing how Jesus fulfilled Old Testament prophecy as the born champion who arrived as a baby yet carried the fullness of God from birth.
Mentioned along the way
- December 18, 2023 A Great Light in the Land of Deep Darkness A Wyoming pastor traces the "light of the world" from Isaiah's prophecy through the Exodus plagues to Jesus, asking what that light demands of us now.