"Passion Sunday" - David McGaw
From Holy Trinity Silicon Valley - Homilies & Sermons by Holy Trinity Silicon Valley
March 23, 2026 · 27 min · Episode 4
About this episode
David McGaw explores the theme of waiting in faith through biblical stories of loss and resurrection.
What do you do when God seems late and the situation has already gone past the point of no return? This sermon sits with the hardest question faith asks us to hold: not whether God can bring life from death, but what we do while we wait. In this final Sunday of Lent before Holy Week, David McGaw explores the painful pause between death and resurrection through the lens of Ezekiel's valley of dry bones and the raising of Lazarus in John 11. Both stories share the same arc: loss, an agonizing wait, and then new life that exceeds anything anyone imagined. But for the people living through it, the wait felt like the end. Whether you're navigating career uncertainty in Silicon Valley, grieving a relationship, or sitting with a dream that seems permanently gone, this message explores what it looks like to speak hope into the driest places of your life and keep showing up when you can't yet see what God is doing. IN THIS EPISODE Why the biblical pattern of "death, waiting, then resurrection" matters for people living through seasons of uncertainty and loss right now What the repeated word "breath" (ruach) in Ezekiel 37 reveals about God's Spirit already being at work before we see…
People in this episode
Guest: David McGaw
Topics covered
- faith
- waiting
- resurrection
- loss
- hope
- uncertainty
Keywords
- God
- breath
- Ezekiel
- Lazarus
- faithfulness
- career uncertainty
- grief
- hope
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Ezekiel's valley of dry bones, the raising of Lazarus
Places: Silicon Valley
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