Amen. Thank you for sharing your sermon here, glad I came across it. I also preached on Thomas this summer (using a work of art similar to this one), but my sermon was much longer. Hopefully the sentiment was the same- open and caring - as well as urging us to be willing to show our wounds, if it's helpful (or allowing others to ask their questions, if they need to ask them). Blessings.
So much trauma. Thank you for naming it from the pulpit (and here) and calling us into deeper belonging to one another, the kind that heals <3.
If I had one sermon, as Barth suggested we all do, this would be it.
Amen. Thank you for sharing your sermon here, glad I came across it. I also preached on Thomas this summer (using a work of art similar to this one), but my sermon was much longer. Hopefully the sentiment was the same- open and caring - as well as urging us to be willing to show our wounds, if it's helpful (or allowing others to ask their questions, if they need to ask them). Blessings.