On this third Sunday in Easter, the Scripture reading from John 21:1-19 invites us to both continue celebrating Jesus’ resurrection and to recognize Jesus’ presence among us in the midst of ordinary life. After the excitement of the resurrection, the
Happy Easter! Today, we celebrate the greatest news in history: Jesus is alive! The tomb is empty! Death is defeated! Today’s sermon encourages us to look to both the cross and the empty tomb, reflecting on Easter’s intersection of grief
For Palm Sunday this year, we focused entirely on Palm Sunday’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem, rather than going through the entire Passion narrative. In this sermon, I attempted to capture a little more of the emotional significance of this day,
I didn’t preach on the lectionary reading from Joshua 5:9-12 this weekend, but I did record a devotional on it months ago for the 2024-25 ELEA devotional book, Created to Be (PDF link to the whole book). ELEA is the
In this third Sunday in Lent, we hear Jesus tell a parable about an impatient landowner and an unproductive fig tree. Is the fig tree a waste of space and soil? Or is it an illustration of the value of