Orchard Church Sermons

As we continue our Encounter teaching series through the 40 days between resurrection and ascension, we turn to 1 Corinthians 15, where Paul mentions that the risen Jesus appeared to more than five hundred people, most of them unnamed. We explore what it means that the resurrection has always moved through ordinary people doing ordinary things, and why your everyday life — your work, your neighborhood, your parenting — is not a waiting room for your real calling, but the calling itself.

What do you do when you've failed so completely that you go back to who you were before everything changed? In John 21, Peter returns to fishing — not out of rest, but resignation. He's decided he's disqualified. But Jesus meets him on the shore anyway, at a charcoal fire that carries the memory of his worst moment, and asks him a question that begins to put him back together. This week, Pastor Leiah teaches us about restoration, calling, and what it means to be fully known.