Sermon Series

Easter 2025: “Bless the Easter We Actually Have”

This Easter, we invite you to find hope in the real, sometimes messy, and often unexpected places of life. In our four-week sermon series, we'll journey through the resurrection story, discovering the power of hope emerging from emptiness, skepticism, denial, and hatred. Join us as we explore the ways Jesus’ resurrection power reaches into the deep and broken places of our lives, offering hope where we least expect it.

• April 20, 2025 | Hope from Emptiness | Luke 24:1-12

• April 27, 2025 | Hope from Skepticism | John 20:19-31

• May 4, 2025 | Hope from Denial | John 21:15-19 

• May 11, 2025 | Hope from Hatred | Acts 9:1-19a 

Lent 2025: “Bless the Lent We Actually Have”

Lent marks the forty days leading up to Easter, mirroring Jesus' forty days in the wilderness before his public ministry. Many people give up something, such as chocolate, soda, or social media, during Lent, or take up something new, such as a new prayer practice and devotion. Lent is a sacred invitation to recognize that God blesses our days while we long for God’s promised future, where there will be no tears, no pain, and no sorrow. 

This sermon series, based on Kate Bowler’s Bless the Lent We Actually Have, invites you to understand that our actual days—ordinary, nothing special, uncertain, pain-filled, and medically challenged—might be blessed as God blesses each of our days just as they are.  

• March 9, 2025 | Blessed Are the Imperfect | Matthew 4:1-11

• March 16, 2025 | Blessed Are the Curious | John 3:1-15

• March 23, 2025 | Blessed Are Those Who Suffer | Romans 5:1-8

• March 30, 2025 | Blessed Are Those Who Feel Alone | Psalm 23

• April 6, 2025 | Blessed Are Those Who Mourn | John 11:17-37 

• April 13, 2025 | Blessed Are the Rejected | Matthew 21:1-11