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 is grounded in the idea that the familiar details of the Christmas story carry more weight than holiday familiarity tends to let them. Brian has walked the congregation through Old Testament prophecies, particularly Isaiah 7:14, Isaiah 9, and Micah 5:2, not to deliver a survey of facts but to let those texts land as if for the first time. The virgin birth, the manger in Bethlehem, the child announced as king, these are not decorations on a seasonal story. They are the record of a God who gave signs so large that no one could have thought to ask for them, and who fulfilled them in ways that require real faith to receive.
A thread running through Brian's teaching is that hope at Christmas is inseparable from who Jesus actually is. He was not a baby who would grow into his calling. He was born carrying the intrinsic qualities of God, fully present from the start, needing only to develop as a human in order to express them. Brian says, "Jesus is born with the intrinsic qualities that enable him to develop these attributes." That distinction matters for hope, because the one the world needs as champion, liberator, and redeemer was not working toward that role. He arrived as it.
Brian has also taught from Isaiah 9:1-2 and John 8:12 that the light breaking into darkness at Christmas is not a metaphor for good feelings in a hard season. Jesus said plainly that he is the light of the world, and that following him means walking in light rather than darkness. Brian has been direct that the darkness in the current moment is real and intensifying, and that the response to it is not retreat. The hope Christmas announces is specific: the one Isaiah described centuries in advance actually arrived, and as Brian says, "Hope is here. Would you receive the miracle of the arrival of Jesus in your heart?"
Taught from Isaiah 9:1-7 · Isaiah 7:14 · Micah 5:2 · John 8:12 · Luke 2:1-7
“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
Messages that go deeper
- 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.
- 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.