Identity – Week 7 | Thomas

Everything can feel shattered at once—loss, confusion, the pandemic weariness that leaves people unsure whom to trust or where to turn. Mary Magdalene stands at the center of that mess: she’s at the empty tomb, raw with grief, with nothing to explain what just happened. This sermon takes that moment seriously and asks the same blunt question the text does: when everything falls apart, where do you go? The message follows three simple “turnings” from the story: toward the pain of the tomb, toward the surprising person who calls your name, and then outward to others with the news of new life. You’ll hear a very human invitation to stop pretending grief isn’t real, to consider what it means to be known by someone who shows up, and to move from clinging to being sent. The ending reframes identity not as a self-made discovery but as a name spoken into your confusion—and it unfolds in ways that stay with you.