More Than a Memory: Rediscovering the Power of the Resurrection

Apr 5, 2026  •  The Rev. Billy Cerveny

A three-dollar yard sale bowl that turned out to be a thousand-year-old Song dynasty treasure shows what happens when we lose the story around the resurrection. Following Mary Magdalene from the cross to the empty tomb in John 20, Rev. Cerveny argues that Easter does not erase our pain but transforms its meaning, and that the risen Lord's first act was to call one grieving woman by name.