A week has passed since Easter Sunday. The empty tomb has been declared, the stone rolled away, the story told. But what happened next?
In this guest sermon, Revd. Paul Cowley MBE — former soldier, prison chaplain and founder of the Second Chance Partnership — explores three very different encounters with the risen Christ in John 20 and on the road to Emmaus. Fearful disciples hiding behind locked doors. A doubting Thomas who needs to see for himself. Two disappointed travellers walking away from everything they had believed. Three different people. The same Jesus. And each one met exactly where they were.
We know those places too. We have our own locked doors, our own honest doubts, our own quiet walks away from hope. Paul's message is that Jesus doesn't wait for us to get our lives together — he steps into the middle of our mess.
So the question he leaves us with isn't "did he rise?" It's: where is he meeting me now?
Full transcript and video: https://stpeters.ch/sermons/where-is-jesus-now/