A resurrected Jesus means that life with God begins right here and now. So what does it mean to tap into that?

Text: John 17:20-26

Life in the wake of a resurrected Jesus is a flourshing life, a life consumed in peace.

Text: John 14:23-29

Living a life with a resurrected Jesus at the center will mean being committed to love.

Text: John 13:31-35

Resources:

Peterson, Eugene H. Living the Resurrection: The Risen Christ in Everyday Life. Colorado Springs: NavPress, 2006. Wells, Sam.

“Where Does My Love Go?” The Christian Century. https://www.christiancentury.org/article/faith-matters/where-my-love-go.

Hauerwas, Stanley. “Love is Not All You Need.” The Table – Biola University Center for Christian Thought. https://cct.biola.edu/love-not-need/.

Peterson, Eugene. “Spirituality for All the Wrong Reasons.” Christianity Today, March 2005. https://www.christianitytoday.com/2005/03/spirituality-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/.

The resurrection means whoever you are, whatever you've done you will always and forever belong.

Text: John 10:22-30

Resources:

Peterson, Eugene. Living the Resurrection: The Risen Christ in Everyday Life. Colorado Springs: NavPress, 2006.

“Locking Preachers in the Pulpit.” 1517. Accessed May 12, 2025. https://www.1517.org/articles/locking-preachers-in-the-pulpit.

“Hopeful Anthem Showdown.” Plough. Accessed May 12, 2025. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/music/hopeful-anthem-showdown.

“Why Self-Denial?” Plough. Accessed May 12, 2025. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/why-self-denial.

The Young Pope. Episode 3. Directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Aired January 20, 2017, on HBO

Amid the beauty, noise, and burdens of life, the risen Jesus still stands — not demanding more, but inviting us to release it all and follow him into living the resurrection.

Text:John 21:1-19

Resources

Peterson, Eugene. Living the Resurrection: The Risen Christ in Everyday Life. Colorado Springs: NavPress, 2006.

Eugene H. Peterson, As Kingfishers Catch Fire: A Conversation on the Ways of God Formed by the Words of God: Colorado Springs: WaterBrook, 2017.

Berry, Wendell. “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front.” AllPoetry. Accessed April 29, 2025. https://allpoetry.com/poem/12622463-Manifesto--The-Mad-Farmer-Liberation-Front-by-Wendell-Berry.

The risen Jesus isn’t just offering us hope for the future, He is utterly remaking our present. A risen Jesus means you can now truly live.

Text: John 20:19-31

Resources: Hauerwas, Stanley. “The First Task of the Church.” Plough Magazine

Text: John 20:1-18

There is someone reaching through all of the noise to embrace you, and bring you to everything for which you ache. Listen. Can you hear His song?

Text: Luke 22:14-53

Our ideas of the way things should go and God’s ideas of the way things should go don’t always line up. So how does Jesus show us what it means to be fully human when it seems like all is lost?

Text: John 12:1-8

What does Jesus mean "You will always have the poor with you?" The answer explodes our notions of what church is and what Jesus is doing in the world.

Text: Luke 15:1-3; 11b-32

There is a plethora of self help advice out there centered on hacking your way to wholeness. But what if you already have everything you need to be whole?

Text: Luke 13:1-9

Jesus is confronted with the question of why seemingly senseless suffering happens. His actions show us God's answer.

Text: Luke 13:31-35

In an age when it seems as if all we hold dear is at stake, Jesus offers us God’s counterintuitive way forward.

Text: Luke 4:1-13

Jesus journey towards the cross begins in a familiar place. Jesus shows us what it means to be human in the wastelands and wandering of life.

Text: Galatians Galatians 6:1-18

The mosaic of Christ in the world is made up of a variety of people, cultures, ideas, and identities. But the Church will inevitably look like Jesus.

Text: Galatians 5:1-26

God's gift does not guarantee us an easy life. It doesn't even guarantee us a happy life. What God's gift does offer us is a beautiful life.

Text: Galatians 4:12-31

How does what Jesus is doing seep into our every day lived experience? Galatian’s uncomfortable allegory opens our eyes to the reality of our life with God, even in this present chaos.

Text: 3:19-4:1-11

So much of life is driven by our attempts to grab for ourselves what God freely offers as a gift. So what might happen if we actually accepted it?

Text: Galatians 2:11-21

If at some point it was made clear to you that the good news didn’t include you, this sermon is for you.