“Awe came upon everyone, because many wonders and signs were being done by the apostles.” When was the last time awe came upon you?
Baptism is the shaper of our identity as beloved children of God. God shapes us in a form that can be reshaped over time to meet the opportunities and challenges we encounter at different stages of our journey. God is constantly reshaping us, much like the ways Linus reshapes his blanket.
High school seniors Bruce Marshall, Jack Jordan, Dahlia Townley-Bakewell, and Sam Shiberou offer today’s sermon.
Christ is risen, my friends! Christ is risen! The only work that’s left for us to do is walk away from the stories of the empire, and commit together to being the people of Abel’s God, the community of Jesus, and to giving our fears over to his resurrection to be raised as joy.
We imagine the edge or the end guarded by dragons, but those are angels telling us to look around and see that this is not the end, and so this is not where we have to stay. In some ways, this invitation is just as fearsome as a mythical sea monster, it requires some boldness and at least a little bit of faith to say yes when the world says no.