“When our hope in God doesn’t produce the results that we hope for, we put God on the stand alongside hope and accuse him of not being himself,” explained Perry. “Our disappointment starts to change our mind about God: He must not be faithful. He must not be good.”
Perry said that as she has struggled with hope and God, she found “it was easier to believe what Satan has to say about God than what Jesus has revealed.” She compared this pitfall to when Adam and Eve listened to a hopeless serpent in the Garden of Eden.
Perry recounted an instance from her own life when she was little. She was waiting for her father, who failed to arrive as he had said. To cope, Perry “made a conscious decision” not to allow anyone to let her down. “Even now,” she said, “excitement is a trigger word because it implies that I actually have hope.”
Perry then warned of the dangers of refusing hope: “You will become an idolator.” She continued, “Every idol you have ever constructed is because you hoped it could be God for you. You ask God for comfort, but it seems like the bottle answered your prayer quicker than the Spirit did.”
Perry concluded her talk by reiterating the only true hope we have is in God. She quoted the late Timothy Keller, saying, “If Jesus Christ really got up, everything will be all right.”
Watch Recordings of Passion 2025 Artists and Speakers
Since 1995, the Passion Movement has offered events around the world focused on the younger generation and their leaders—and dedicated to the “fame of Jesus.”
“For us, what matters most is the name and renown of Jesus,” says the event site. “We believe in this generation and watching God use them to change the climate of faith around the globe.”
Attendees said a collective, “Yes, LORD!” at Passion 2025 and looked to Isaiah 26:8, “Walking in the way of your truth, we wait eagerly for you, for your name and your renown are the desire of our souls.”
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Recordings of the sessions are available to view online. Scroll down for a listing of all sessions under the “Rewatch” heading.
Worship artists—including Crowder, Passion Music, Kari Jobe Carnes and Cody Carnes, and KB—led the thousands of attendees in meaningful experiences and music. Louie and Shelley Giglio, Sadie and Christian Huff, Christine Caine, Crawford Loritts, and Jon Tyson all brought biblical words of wisdom and applicable insight that inspired the younger generation.
Passion 2026 is scheduled for Jan. 1-3, 2026, in the Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas.
