Dealing with Disappointment: Downcast Faces to Burning Hearts // Ryan Baker-Barnes // 03.05.2026

What do you do when life doesn’t turn out the way you hoped? In this message, we walk the road to Emmaus in Luke 24 and discover how disappointment affects the heart, and how Jesus redeems it. The disciples carried the weight of “we had hoped,” and that disappointment did three things: • Disengaged them from their destiny • Distorted their reality, and • Disguised the truth of who Jesus was and what He was doing. They were walking away from Jerusalem, away from calling, away from community, ye