Scripture Readings: Acts 5:27–32 | Psalm 118 | Revelation 1:4–8 | ​John 20:19–31

“Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.” (John 20:30-31).

Anyone excited for the election tomorrow? 

I know many of us are probably sick of discussing… or worse yet, hearing other people discuss politics these days, especially since things have gotten so divisive and outright nasty in recent years. 

But whether or not we are excited about tomorrow’s election… and regardless of which party ends up in power this time around… the fact remains that whatever happens will have some big implications for our whole country moving forward. For better or worse, what happens tomorrow will play a part in shaping not only our own lives as Canadian citizens, but also shaping our communities, our shared values and way of life, and our nation’s relationships with the wider world. 

But as big as tomorrow’s election day may seem, we celebrated something far more significant last Sunday: the resurrection of the Son of God, Jesus Christ our Lord. 

That marvelous event of the first Easter marks the most radical turning point of all time… the incredible intervention of the Living God on behalf of His beloved but broken Creation… Christ’s great victory over the powers of sin, and death, and all the forces of spiritual darkness… by giving up His life at the cross, and rising again from the grave.

That moment marks not just the end of the old ways of the world… a dramatic break with the past, but it also marks a brand new beginning… a new way of life that we who believe in this Good News are now called to take part in.  

After all, the resurrection of Jesus Christ is not just something wonderful that happened to Him. It is God’s new Creation… God’s new beginning breaking into and transforming the story of our world, and the new starting point for how you and I are to orient our lives.

In short, the resurrection of Jesus challenges us all to rearrange our whole lives… our hearts, our minds, our actions, and our interactions with others around the beautiful truth that: Christ has died. Christ is risen. And Christ will come again. To become an Easter People… not just once a year, but always. 

And that means more that simple saying ‘yes’ to these words, and then moving on. It means spending a lifetime exploring and working through the real implications of this beautiful truth. It means seeking to better understand what it looks like for us to live as Easter People today.

And while that’s not something that we can fully accomplish this morning, we can at least begin to reflect on what it means to become Easter People by turning to our Scripture readings this morning, beginning with the Gospel of John. 

St. John Chapter 20 gives us a wonderful account of the risen Jesus appearing suddenly to His closest disciples, who had been hiding themselves away in fear. But the risen Jesus comes to meet them in their time of fright and confusion, and shatters their old way of seeing the world… inviting them into the brand new thing that God was doing. He reveals Himself to them. He offers them His peace, along with the message and ministry of forgiveness. And then He shares the Holy Spirit with them, and commissions them to be His witnesses in the world… sharing the Good News of His resurrection with everyone. 

But then we find out that Thomas missed out. Alone out of the disciples, Thomas wasn’t there that first Easter to witness the risen Christ first hand. And so he refuses to believe, until he can see for himself that it really is true. He says unless he sees Christ’s hands and feet, and His pierced side… until Thomas can be assured that the same Jesus that he had faithfully followed, and knew and loved… the same Jesus that He saw die… was now alive again, as the others had said. 

And that’s because Thomas wanted to believe in the truth! Not just to accept a hopeful story… but reality. He wanted assurance that he wasn’t just going along with what he wanted to be true… Thomas wanted to be sure that Jesus really had been raised again.

Because, if it hadn’t really happened… if it was just a good story, and nothing more… then nothing’s really changed. Then the world is still the same. And all our sins, and death, and the powers of darkness in our world are still holding us captive.

And so, Thomas refuses to believe that Jesus had risen again unless he can be convinced by the same evidence that had convinced his fellow disciples. In other words, he’s not some radical skeptic… after all, everyone knew that dead people stay dead… Thomas just wanted the same life-changing experience that the others had had. And thankfully, he’s not disappointed.

The risen Jesus visits His disciples again the next Sunday, and He then invites Thomas to believe… to be a witness to the Good News that, even though Jesus had died, He really is alive! That everything really has changed! That God really has dealt with our sins, once and for all. That death has been defeated, and that the dark spiritual forces at work in our world have been overthrown by the power of God’s saving love, who has raised up His Son forever. 

In John 20:27-29, Jesus turns specifically to Thomas, his beloved disciple and says to him: “‘Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe.’ Thomas answered him, ‘My Lord and my God!’ Jesus said to him, ‘Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.’” 

Thomas sees and he believes, and he is given a new beginning. And Jesus says that those of us who have not yet seen, and yet believe… that means you and me… are blessed. 
  
And for St. John, this is the point: that we might come to believe… and be blessed by the new life that He has received, and offers to us. John 20:30-31, “Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.”

Being Easter People begins by believing in the resurrection of Jesus. Even though we will still have all sorts of questions, we can choose to trust that this Good News is true. It will take a lifetime of seeking to grow in our understanding of what this all means, for us and our world, but it all begins when we, with St. Thomas and all the other Apostles, turn to Jesus and acclaim Him as our Lord and our God as well. 

And although this invitation to believe in Christ’s resurrection is personal, thankfully, it’s not something that we’re meant to have to try and figure out all alone. And that’s because being an Easter People is not simply about our individual faith… it’s also an invitation to belong to God’s redeemed community: the Church.   

And here is where we turn to our second reading today from the book of Revelation… a powerful, but often misunderstood vision offered to Christ’s people throughout the ages to help reframe how we understand all of creation and human history… past, future, and especially the present… so we can better understand how to live faithfully here and now for Jesus the Risen Lord, even when everything else seems to be falling apart all around us.

And here, in the very first verses of the Revelation, we are reminded of what actually makes us an Easter People, the Good News of Jesus Christ the Risen Lord: 

In Revelation 1:4-6, we hear John begin the book with these words: “Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.
 
To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by his blood, and made us to be a kingdom, priests serving his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.”

There’s a lot packed into these opening words, but I’d like to draw our attention to what John says about Jesus Christ, and also what John says about his fellow believers. 

Jesus is the faithful witness… the firstborn from the dead… and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Clearly, the Risen Christ, who died, rose again, and reigns at God’s right hand is centre stage. But then John shifts to the Risen Christ’s connection to His people: He loves us. He set us free from our sins by His blood. And He made us to be a kingdom… priests serving His God and Father. 

Now, I don’t know of any strictly personal, one person kingdoms. And the whole idea of priests in isolation from others makes no sense at all. Kingdoms and priests require a community… people bound together around a shared reality. A common location, identity, and allegiance.  

And our reading from Revelation reminds us that the Risen Christ is creating a new community… set free and forgiven so that we can live as Easter People, serving Him and walking in His holy ways… bound together by our belief in the One who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and true ruler of all creation. 

Easter People start with belief in the resurrection of Jesus, and then find that we now belong to a worldwide community that the Risen Lord has redeemed: the Church.

So far so good. But as the book of Revelation, the whole of story of Holy Scripture, and the history of the Church makes clear, this new beginning as Easter People will be anything but easy. Especially when trying to live in the light of the Good News of the Risen King puts us in conflict with the claims of those who are still resisting His reign. 

Which leads us to our first reading from the book of Acts, where we are reminded that being an Easter People means being willing to be different… and even face suffering.

The story in Acts Chapter 5 takes place in the days after the Risen Lord Jesus returns to the right hand of the Father, and sends the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. The Apostles are then empowered to serve as Christ’s faithful witnesses… no longer hiding in fear, but boldly sharing the Good News of the Risen Lord with all of Jerusalem. 

But soon enough, the people who had crucified Jesus tried to silence His followers too, and the Apostles found themselves facing some serious political pressure from those in power. Just before the passage we read, they were arrested and thrown into jail. 

But that night, God sends an angel to rescue the Apostles from prison… and instead of seizing the moment to run away and save themselves, the angel tells them to keep on sharing the Gospel boldly in the Temple… witnessing to Christ’s resurrection, and that’s what they do. 

In the morning, the religious leaders who had them arrested are shocked to find them preaching in the Temple again, and they have them brought before the council, and warned not to keep preaching about Jesus. 

Acts 5:29-32, “But Peter and the apostles answered, ‘We must obey God rather than any human authority. The God of our ancestors raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree. God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior that he might give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.”

Rather than back down in the face of serious and powerful opposition, the Apostles stand firm in their faith, and refuse to pretend that Easter morning never happened… to act as though Jesus had not changed everything through His resurrection… even though it would mean enduring the ill will of those who wanted the world to stay the same. 

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Our three Scripture readings today have reminded us of some pretty important aspects of being an Easter People:
It begins by believing in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

We then belong to His new redeemed community, the Church… where we are called together to begin living differently, to make choices every day based on the reality of the resurrection of Jesus… even if it means suffering.

Believe. Belong. Be different.  How do these speak to us today?

How does our belief in the reality of the resurrection of Jesus challenge the kinds of ways that we act, and talk, and think, and treat one another… the decisions we make every day? 

What does it mean for you and I to belong to God’s redeemed community? Not simply to seek after our own interests, but gather with one another so that we can take part in the life of the Church… learning to love one another, to remind each other of God’s forgiveness, and mercy, and grace, and saving love, again and again. To know we are not alone, but are surrounded by sisters and brothers bound together by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

How are we being called to be different today? To stand out in how we exist in our daily lives, whether in private or public? To be willing to say no to the things or the people that pull us further away from our Saviour’s side… even if it means standing up to those who misuse worldly power, and suffering for Christ’s sake? 

These questions are just the beginning. But as Easter People, beginnings are nothing new. Every day as Christians, we get to celebrate the Good News that in Christ Jesus the Risen Lord, the Living God has changed everything for good. That God’s new beginning has already begun. That even though many around us still place their faith in things like politics and power games, we can face the future with hope, whatever may come, because we know that Christ has died… Christ is risen… and Christ will come again. Amen. 

​Our service of Morning Prayer, Bulletin, and Sermon this week can be found here:

And here are some links to the Hymns listed in our service, found on YouTube: ​

Christians and Others 
(Poem by Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

All go to God in their distress,
Seek help and pray for bread and happiness,
Deliverance from pain, guilt, and death.
All do, Christians and others.

All go to God in His distress,
Find Him poor, reviled without shelter or bread,
Watch Him tormented by sin, weakness, and death.
Christians stand by God in His agony.

God goes to all in their distress,
Satisfies body and soul with His bread,
Dies, crucified for all, Christians and others
And both alike forgiving.

Scripture Readings: Exodus 12:1–14 | Psalm 116:1–2, 12–19 | 1 Corinthians 11:23–26 | John 13:1–17, 31b–35

“…Do this in remembrance of me.” (1 Corinthians 11:24).

On this sacred night, we remember and in a real sense re-live the story of the ‘Last Supper’: the turning point in the dramatic story of Holy Week… the last precious moments that Jesus our Lord spends with His closest disciples before His betrayal, arrest, and crucifixion. 

Tonight, we remember the powerful and precious gifts that our Lord has given, not only to those who personally shared in that time in the upper room, but to all who would follow Him.

We remember His new and great commandment: that we are to love one another, just as He has first loved us. 

We remember the shocking way He demonstrated this love… by humbly washing their feet, and commanding us to do the same.

We remember how He invited His disciples to experience a very familiar celebration and story in a whole new way… 
Telling us to take and eat… to receive bread and wine as His own blessed body and blood of the new covenant… and so find ourselves taking part in the Living God’s greatest act of saving love.

That night, Jesus our Lord and His disciples celebrated the Passover… a sacred meal remembering the new beginning God created for His people Israel, many centuries before. Once they had been oppressed slaves in a strange land, with no hope of finding freedom for themselves. But God had compassion on them. God came to their aid. God broke the power of Pharaoh, once and for all, and with a might arm, God set them free to be His people forever.

And this act of saving love transformed Israel’s story. God set them free, not so they could wander about aimlessly through life… but to be His beloved children. He set them free so that they could come to know His grace and His glory up close, and so start to live no longer for Pharaoh, or even for themselves, but for their merciful Creator and Saviour. Putting His holy ways into practice, as a light shining into a darkened world. 
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But remembering this calling wasn’t always easy. They faced all sorts of distractions, and threats, and temptations that sought to take hold of their attention, and draw them away from their Saviour’s side. 

And so, to help them remember… to keep the story of God’s saving love alive throughout the centuries, God gave them the Passover meal as a perpetual sign… passed down for generations, to remind them not only of what the LORD has done for them… His might acts of salvation… but also to remind them of their new calling as His people in the world. 

This sacred meal became an ongoing invitation for His beloved children, to remember their place in the story of His saving love.

And many centuries after the Israelites were set free from slavery in Egypt, Jesus and His disciples celebrated the Passover meal together… remembering and celebrating what the Living God had done for their ancestors long ago. 

But rather than simply retelling the past, Jesus points His followers forward to the new and surprising act of God’s saving love that was about to happen through Him! God was again about to delivering His people, not just from a deadly plague, or the dominion of Pharaoh… but from the terrible powers of sin and death, and the forces of spiritual darkness at work, around and inside of us. And this victory would not be achieved through the sacrifice and shed blood of a lamb, spread across the doorframes of a house… but through the sacrifice of Christ’s own life… His own body broken, and His own blood shed upon the wooden beams of the cross. 

And so tonight, all these long centuries after the Last Supper, we are reminded that the saving love of the Living God leads us to the cross… to what Jesus Christ our Lord has done there to save us, and our darkened world.

And now every time that we gather around Christ’s table, not only in Holy Week, but Sunday after Sunday, we do so in remembrance of Him. We remember His faithfulness, when all of us had faltered. We remember His compassion and mercy, for sinners, when our own hearts had run cold. We remember that Jesus has given us the gift of Himself, His own life, once and for all… and as unworthy as we are, He still invites us to share in His new life, again and again.

But we must remember all this for a purpose: so that, with His help, we might truly live as Christ’s people today. That we might be set free to allow what He has done for us to actually begin to change us… so that His saving love will be free to do its good work in and through us.

So that we might be set free to live Jesus’ way in the world! When others are fighting over status and power, to lay down our selfishness and pride, and instead begin to practice faithfulness and service. 

To not only receive His gifts of forgiveness and grace, but to start to extend them as well… choosing to share these gifts with those in our own lives… even those who frustrate, and insult, and betray our trust. Not condoning evil, or allowing it to simply run amok and go unchecked… but choosing, as Christ Jesus our Lord did, to stand against it, and even suffer for righteousness, rather than to give in to hatred, cruelty, or the temptation to condemn our neighbours. 

And when those around us are driven by their fears, real or imagined, to fend for themselves, and only look out for their own interests… we are called to remember what Jesus our Lord has done for us all at the cross… so that we can be set free from fear to love one another as Christ Jesus first loved us. 

This is a high calling indeed. And like the Israelites before us, it can be easy for us to get distracted, or led astray, and so forget what this sacred night is all about: to forget what Jesus our Lord came to accomplish… not just for us, but for our world. 

To forget that, despite all the darkness at work… and there’s still a whole lot of darkness at work these days, to be sure… to forget that Jesus Christ gave His life at the cross to share God’s saving love with sinners like us… to set us all free from our slaveries to selfishness, and prejudice, and fear, and sin… to set us all free when we least deserved this precious gift… to set us all free to share in His holy love… to be a worldwide community marked by His life-changing mercy, His generosity, and His grace. 

And the way our darkened world will come to know of God’s saving love is through us. Through you and me. Through those who still believe the Good News of Jesus Christ… who have received His forgiveness and grace offered to all of us at the cross… those who are willing to be drawn into His story year after year, week after week, again and again… to allow our lives to be shaped and transformed by His faithful life, and death, and glorious resurrection. 

In a moment, I will invite anyone who is willing to come forward to have their feet symbolically washed, remembering the tender, merciful and faithful love that God has shared with us in Jesus Christ, and that He now calls us to share with one another. But whether we come forward, or remain seated tonight, may we all always remember what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us, and our world. And by the Holy Spirit’s help, may we faithfully respond to what He has done, by putting His saving love into practice. Amen.

​And our Songs can be found here:

Scripture Readings: Isaiah 43:16–21 | Psalm 126 | Philippians 3:4b–14 | ​John 12:1–8

“Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ.” (Philippians 3:7).

Well, it’s been an interesting week, to say the least, hasn’t it? A week of worldwide uncertainty, and fearful predictions, as international trade and markets have been responding to the new round of tariffs imposed by the  administration in the United States. And as with any disruptive and uncertain situation, there’s lots of different ways people and nations are choosing to respond. Some are quickly scrambling to make deals and try to avoid even worse outcomes for themselves. Others are hitting back with increased trade barriers of their own… retaliating against what they see as deeply misguided practices that will hurt many people in the long run, and especially those who are already struggling, and vulnerable.

Lots of peoples’ sense of security is being shaken. Lots of economies and families are going to have to adapt and respond somehow, and honestly, it looks like many will face unnecessary suffering because of choices being made by a handful of people with political power.

On the bright side though, this is not a sermon about global trade, tariffs, and market practices. If you’re interested in that stuff, there’s plenty of other, much more qualified people talking about it these days, for better or for worse.

But I wanted to bring this stuff up in part because it’s on a lot of people’s minds… and also because it’s kind of an interesting example of how we humans can respond to disruptive events and people so differently. When our world gets shaken, for good or evil… when everything we hold dear and thought we understood is suddenly challenged and questioned… when brand new obstacles or opportunities are opened up before us… we have to make some choices about the ways we will respond… which is usually shaped by what we are most devoted to. 

And in our Gospel passage this morning, from St. John chapter 12, we see two very different responses of two of the earliest followers of Jesus to what He was up to.

Our passage takes place in a particularly tense part of the story of Jesus… as our Lord approaches Jerusalem, and the world-changing events of Holy Week draws near.

Just before this part of the story, Jesus had done something truly amazing, and deeply unsettling to many: in front of many witnesses, Jesus had raised His friend Lazarus, who had been dead for four days, back to life. St. John frames this amazing event as a sign of Christ’s power, and God’s Kingdom at work in Him. And in response to this, many people believed in Him… but many others did not. In fact, the religious leaders of the day, convinced that Jesus was upsetting too many things that they held dear, and undermining their spiritual authority, began to make plans from this point on to have Jesus arrested and executed.

And right after this story, St. John will tell of Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem on what we now call Palm Sunday… eagerly welcomed by crowds waving branches and praising God… a reception fit for a King… but as we know, in the week that follows, this King will end up on a cross. 

And right in the middle of this dramatic moment in Christ’s story… this movement towards the world-changing climax of the Gospel, we find our passage today. And we are given a powerful picture of what the Christian life looks like.

The story holds up side by side two followers of Jesus: Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve chosen disciples, and Mary of Bethany, the youngest sister of Lazarus. 

We’re told that Jesus visits their home in Bethany a week before the Passover, and while He’s there having supper, Mary anointed Jesus’ feet with a very precious perfume, and wiped His feet dry with her own hair. It is an image of incredible humility, offering to Jesus, not simply a pleasant and expensive experience, but a gift intended to both honour Him, and make obvious her sincere devotion.  

And though we’re not told initially why she offered this gift, if we step back and remember the recent story of her beloved brother, the picture becomes a bit more clear. Jesus had just raised Lazarus back to life. He had changed their deepest sorrow to joy, and gave them hope beyond anything they had imagined. And so, moved by gratefulness and trust, she presents Jesus with a wholehearted act of devotion. Nothing was too precious now compared to Him.
And in this beautiful moment, with the fragrance of her precious offering filling the house, Judas speaks up, and we are given a glimpse of a very different way to respond Jesus, and what He is up to. 

John 12:4-6, “But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was about to betray him), said, ‘Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?’ (He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what was put into it.)” 

Not a very flattering picture, but in three short verses, St. John gives us quite a character sketch of Judas: 1) Judas is a traitor to Jesus… an unfaithful follower, who ends up betraying God’s chosen One; 2) Judas is a thief… motivated by greed, and self-centeredness, not the compassion and generosity that Christ Jesus calls us to; and 3) Judas new how to present himself as faithful and wholeheartedly devoted to the work of Christ’s Kingdom… He knew the right words to say, but he was a hypocrite… an actor playing a part, and not a devoted servant of God. 

And Judas, this traitor, and thief, and hypocrite, one of the twelve, looks at what Mary does for the One he calls Lord… and he calls it all a waste. He questions her wisdom, and tries to heap shame on her beautiful gift of love.

And from the outside… with a cool and calculated tally of coins and costs, what Mary did does look like a waste. Think of how much good could have been done with the money that perfume cost. Surely Jesus doesn’t need or expect this kind of extravagance, especially when there were so many people near by who were struggling and suffering. What Judas says does makes sense. 

But as St. John tells us straight up: Judas was ultimately selfish. He knew the right things to say, and the arguments that made him sound wise and responsible… but he was only devoted to himself… not to the poor, or those suffering, and as we see soon enough, not to the Lord.  
 
Meanwhile, Mary doesn’t say a word. She lets her actions tell their own story. And even if they are misunderstood, or misinterpreted, or maligned… and if she is accused of being wasteful, or careless… Jesus knows her heart! Jesus knew what she was offering to Him, just as he knew what Judas was holding back. And so Jesus received the gift of wholehearted love that she poured out for Him… honouring her actions as part of the preparations for His coming death. 

For this story is about more than Mary’s gracious gift, and Judas’ hardening heart. It is a story that points us to the events of Holy Week, and the great confrontation between the powers of darkness, and the Lord of Light… the moment when God’s own precious Son freely gave up His body and blood… His life at the cross, in what must have seemed in that moment as an unspeakable waste! 

I mean, think about it. Think of how much good Jesus could have done if He had just stayed away from Jerusalem that Passover week. How many more people who were sick and suffering could have been healed if He had made a few less enemies, and a few more powerful and important friends? How many people who were discouraged and oppressed could have been given freedom and hope had He just been a bit less worried about the Kingdom of God, and a bit more willing to ‘play ball’? 

Jesus could have done so many great things for people, and for Himself, if He had just been a bit more selfish… if He would have refused to offer up His life at the cross in our place. 

But no, Jesus instead let His actions speak for themselves… even if others would misinterpret, or misunderstand, or malign Him and the incredible sacrifice that He made… even if it meant paying a cost far greater than anything we could imagine… even if, to the eyes of the outside world, what Jesus did just looks like a shame, and a waste… God knows exactly what was going on that Good Friday, when Jesus poured out His life for you and me… and for us all. God knows the depths of Christ’s wholehearted devotion to the will of His Father in Heaven… and God received Christ Jesus’ gift of wholehearted love for us… even while we, just like Judas, were still all wrapped up in ourselves, and our self-destructive sins.  

And we know this. We know that Jesus’ gift of love was received, because three days later, God raised His Son again, rescuing Him from the power of death, once and for all, through His resurrection.

And this is what Jesus now graciously offers to us: the power of His resurrection. He shares with us His own victory over the grave… not so that we will not suffer, or have to go through times of uncertainty, or grief, or pain, but so that we can do so with the confidence that He has already faced death on our behalf, and come out the other side… that He lives now as our Risen King of Kings… that there is now absolutely nothing… not poverty, pain, the grave… or even trade barriers that can keep us from the saving, generous, life-giving love of the Lord, who gave His life to set us free from our sin, our fear, our shame, and to lead us into the New Life of God even now.

So like St. Paul, in our reading from Philippians today, let us not place our confidence and our hope in appearances… or in all the assets and honours we can count up, or try to amass for ourselves. Instead, let us press on towards the goal of the New Life of God’s Kingdom, trusting in the power of Christ’s resurrection… the power of His saving love that not even death or tariffs can stop. 

​And like Mary, may we respond to the incredible grace and love of Jesus Christ our Lord by pouring out our lives in thankfulness and praise to Him in wholehearted devotion… not just in our words, or in our times of worship, but in all of our actions… in everything that we do… holding nothing back from the One who gave everything for us. Amen.

​And our Songs this week can be found here: