Sermon: Reenchanted | Week 5: Believe in Honest Presence // Alyson Tiwari

Date

March 22, 2026

Synopsis

In this sermon, guest preacher Alyson Tiwari invites us into the most honest question grief ever asks: Where were you? Using the story of Lazarus—and her own profound loss—she explores what it looks like to bring our full, unguarded selves to Jesus, anger and all.

Reenchantment, she reminds us, isn't relentless optimism; it's the kind of presence that can hold grief and hope in the same breath, and discover God already standing in the middle of it, weeping.

This week's invitation: release the cynicism that numbs, and dare to say, Show me something good.

References

Scripture: John 11:1–45

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