Jesus rose from the dead!  Fantastic! 

But why is this good news for you?  What does it mean in your life? 

Just what is Good Friday all about?  It's about Christ our substitute acting in love so that we can be reconciled with God. 

There are many reasons Jesus gave the Lord's Supper to His church and on this Maundy Thursday we focus on just one of those; the Lord's Supper as it relates to the New Covenant. 

Shortly before being betrayed, arrested, tortured, and crucified, Jesus spends time praying for His people...including you. 

The events of Palm Sunday are amazing, but they are even more amazing when we see them from God's big picture perspective. 

Most of this sermon is structured like a story...a parable. It's the story of a stone, which represents a single Christian, and the stone's place in Christ's Church and as His Holy Temple. 

"Prophesy to the bones" God told Ezekiel.  But what good could it do?  They were long since dead? Yet, he did proclaim God's message and amazing things happened. 

How often to we look at people, but we don't actually see them? 

In this gospel reading, many people looked at the man born blind, but only one actually saw Him. 

In John 4, we see Jesus break through social boundaries and reach out to a very unlikely person; a Samaritan woman.  As we find out more about the situation, there are even more surprises.  

What does it mean that God's Word speaks of the Church as "The Household of God?"