There’s no meaningful resurrection, no meaningful Easter, without Holy Week.

Our faith is not a passive faith. We are called to live God’s love in everything we do.

“If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.”

The Rev. Chris Craun, Missioner for Thriving Congregations, preached about five ways the gospel taught her about evangelism.

It’s not about being right or correct. It’s not about having worldly power. Those are distractions.

We are not sinful so much as we are distracted from our purpose. Just as Adam and Eve were.

Lent isn’t about imposing suffering on yourself. It’s about being willing to stop and take in whatever the world brings into our lives.

“You cling to certainty,” Jesus says, “but I’m here to make cracks in all you think you’re sure about.”

What is the point of our faith if it doesn’t change the world?

You make this place happen. This little part of the Body of Christ comes to life when you step into the gifts God gave you.

Whatever life you get, whatever joy is nurtured in your experience of faith, that’s what evangelism is about.

Our baptism is our call to bring justice to the nations, to live as the body of Christ in the world.

Grace is where the Jesus who would be crucified and resurrected meets Josh who ate and drank and laughed with friends.

The Word made flesh, arrives utterly helpless, completely dependent on the people around him for his survival.

Lainey Johnston teaches us a prayer: Be with me, Lord, when I am in trouble. Be with me, Lord, I pray.

Original sin does not live inside us, it is born through our choices. The great sins of our world were created choice by choice by choice.

What we do matters to God. We can frame it as harsh judgment, or we can frame it as God wanting life for us, and life abundant.

God took our sin and suffering and planted it in the ground, planted it in a womb. Gave it the quiet and darkness it needed to transform.

We are all “citizens with the saints” because of our baptism, adopted members of Christ’s royal family.

At its best, at its most loving, holding people accountable tells them that their presence and gifts are essential, that they belong.