I will confess that I did not know how to end this sermon. All week I worried about how to wrap it all up and I fear the art and text may leave us with more questions than answers.

But then I remembered a line from the theologian Chris Green. Basically, he says to preachers, if you don’t what to say, then tell the church what the text makes you want to pray - for them, for yourself, for your family and friends, for the world, for the church.

I pray that all shall be saved. Maybe that’s naive or beyond the scope of the Gospel, but it is my prayer. I pray for God to move among us so that we treat all people of having sacred worth, not matter what they’ve done or left undone. I pray that God won’t give up on us, even if we give up on God.

I pray that God’s power really is such that every broken thing will be mended, every tear will be wiped away, and that heaven will be crowded.