THE GARDENER KNOWS YOUR NAME || Justin Kessler || Easter 2026

You've heard the Easter story. But have you seen what's buried inside it? In John 20, Pastor Justin Kessler digs beneath the surface of the resurrection account and uncovers something most of us have never been told. When John sets the scene in a garden, he is not giving a casual detail. He is making a declaration. The Jewish audience reading this story would have felt it immediately — the garden of Eden, the exile, the promise that one day the wilderness would bloom again. What was broken in the first garden is being undone in this one. Humanity fell in a garden. Jesus rises in one. And the gardener — the creator of everything — is calling you by name. If you have ever stood at what felt like an empty tomb, confused and weeping while everyone else went home, this message is for you. You are in the exact place Jesus loves to meet people. The exile is over. The garden is open.