On the third day the risen Jesus draws near to the disciples in their fear and doubt to open their hearts and minds to see his glory –– that the story of Scripture has been building to this very moment where the crucified and resurrected Messiah reveals himself.

The crucifixion of Jesus is the gravitational center of history. Everything revolves around it. This week we will enter into the story of the crucifixion as we are reminded of the significance and necessity of it in God's story.

Grace Ueng joins us this month to share about her journey with depression, teaching, and working as an executive coach. Listen in as we learn how God can use our challenges and difficulties to speak into the lives of others.

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Jesus for Barabbas. Barabbas for Jesus. The guilty exchanged for the Innocent One. The great exchange. The gospel. That is worth it for us to proclaim that gospel by carrying our cross.

There is something to a beautiful garden, isn't there? The foliage, flowers, the scents, colours...a beautiful garden does something to our souls. It is not coincidental. God created us for the perfect garden life. That is where the story began in Genesis. That is where the story will start anew, when Jesus returns. And in the middle, in our passage in fact, there is a Garden. This Garden is a difficult Garden. It is dark. It is brutal. And yet, it is filled with glory and hope. In this Garden, of Gethsemane, Jesus will be and do everything the first gardener did not, so that the fallen first garden would be restored back to being Good. And, even better, because of Jesus's faithfulness in this garden, we are now invited back to Eden.