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Easter Sunday: What Was Is Not What Will Be

April 17, 2022

Like the women who showed up Sunday morning, spices in hand, and returned to the disciples with a new story to tell, so too do we receive this day a new story, a new future, a new promise: What was is not what will be. … More Easter Sunday: What Was Is Not What Will Be

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All Saints Sunday: Jesus Shows Up

November 7, 2021

Jesus, God in the flesh, shows up. He joins Mary and Martha mourning the death of a brother they have loved, and Jesus cries with them. I don’t know about you, but that is a God I can believe in: one who shows up alongside us, becomes present to us, is in it with us. The God we worship is a God who shows up. … More All Saints Sunday: Jesus Shows Up

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Jesus Is Busting into Your House

April 19, 2020

A week after Easter, locked in our homes, having seen everything we’ve seen in recent days, we might be feeling a bit like Thomas. Resurrection? I’ll believe that when Jesus busts through this locked door and I can experience resurrection for myself. … More Jesus Is Busting into Your House

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Freedom Is Coming

April 8, 2020

Many of us feel “enslaved” by this virus. As we journey with Jesus to the cross and wait for good news at the tomb on Easter morning, we muster all our courage and trust in the promise that freedom is coming. … More Freedom Is Coming

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Easter Sunday: Resurrection Is Real

April 21, 2019

I don’t know how to explain resurrection, but I do know that death doesn’t get the final word. Resurrection is real. We get glimpses of it every day. … More Easter Sunday: Resurrection Is Real

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