“The Gospel in Miniature”
People bear witness to their faith in many ways, some of them unusual. Take the guy who used to show up at every major sporting event with rainbow-colored hair and a made-for-TV-sized placard that read JOHN 3:16. I used to wonder how he got the tickets he did because he always seemed to be close to the field. At football games, he sat in the end zone behind the goal posts so that when the cameras covered the extra point attempt, his placard would appear in the lower right-hand corner of the screen like a footnote to the score: Chiefs 17 Broncos 14 John 3:16.
“Rest and Resilience: Vulnerability”
Vulnerable though he was, Nicodemus didn’t walk away from Jesus; he walked to him. Hallelujah! Nicodemus didn’t walk away from Jesus out of the gnawing fear that Jesus would judge him, rebuke him, reject him. Rather, he walked to Jesus out of a courage born of the hope and trust that Jesus would receive him, welcome him … all of him.
Eighth Day Faith
Today is a great day in the life of the church. That's right - Sunday, April 16, is a high holy day on the church calendar. If it's not, it should be. For you see, it was on the eighth day – Easter Sunday being the first day-- that the disciple named Thomas finally came around to believing…