Sunday Sermon: Resurrected Life - Witnesses to Wounds

About this episode

The sermon reflects on Thomas the Apostle's encounter with Christ's wounds and how our own wounds can connect us to Christ and each other.

This morning, we continue in the joy of Eastertide with the second week of our sermon series, Resurrected Life. In our scripture lesson, John 20:24-29, we meet Thomas the Apostle, who longs to see and touch Christ’s wounds before he can believe. In this powerful encounter, Jesus does not reject Thomas’s doubt, but meets him in it, offering peace and inviting him closer through his scars. Together, we will reflect on how our own wounds, spiritual, emotional, and physical, can become the very places where we are most deeply connected to Christ and to one another. Sermon on John 20:24-29, delivered by the Reverend David J. Powers on April 18th, 2026.

People in this episode

Host: David J. Powers

Topics covered

• Eastertide
• Thomas the Apostle
• faith
• doubt
• spiritual wounds
• emotional wounds
• physical wounds

Keywords

• Resurrected Life
• John 20:24-29
• peace
• scars

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Books & works: Resurrected Life

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