Pastor Gail Whitcome Linstrom – “Rolling Stones and Resurrected Hearts” – Easter – Verdugo Community Church April 9, 2023

In her sermon, “Rolling Stones and Resurrected Hearts,” Pastor Gail leads us through the story as told in John 20. Everyone is given a stone to hold until later. In this account it was Mary Magdalene is the first to come to Jesus’s tomb, not even sure of how she would roll away the boulder covering the entrance. To her surprise she finds the stone rolled away, but to her sorrow the tomb is empty. She asks Peter and another disciple to return with her but they then leave her to mourn alone. It is she who then first encounters the risen Jesus, and she becomes the first to share the news of the resurrection. Each of us have things that block our heart from accepting God’s love. Pastor Gail invites us to come forward with our stones, symbolizing those things and to lay them at the foot of the cross, and then take a flower in recognition of our new life of hope in Jesus and our resurrected hearts open to his love.

 

Verdugo makes its Sunday sermons available to you on Facebook and posts audio copies of the service and sermon at https://verdugochurch.podbean.com.

 

Verdugo Community Church is a Free Methodist congregation serving the Glassell Park, Eagle Rock, and Glendale areas in Los Angeles. It is located at 4300 Verdugo Road, Los Angeles, CA 90065. Our email address is verdugofmc@gmail.com. Contact Pastor Gail at (323) 500-3343.

 

Verdugo is online at www.facebook.com/verdugochurch and www.verdugochurch.org.

Sermon copyright 2023 by Gail Whitcome Linstrom and Verdugo Community Church.