This Easter season, we’re moving beyond simply believing in the resurrection to experiencing and living it—through the eyes of those who witnessed it first.

As you hear these stories from the perspectives of the Centurion, Peter, Mary, Cleopas and his companion, Thomas, Paul, and the disciples who witnessed Jesus’ ascension, we invite you to place yourself in their story. Where do your experiences—your questions, confusion, doubts, hopes, and fears—intersect with theirs?

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Podcast Intro recorded by Ariana Sefa

This Easter season, we’re moving beyond simply believing in the resurrection to experiencing and living it—through the eyes of those who witnessed it first.

As you hear these stories from the perspectives of the Centurion, Peter, Mary, Cleopas and his companion, Thomas, Paul, and the disciples who witnessed Jesus’ ascension, we invite you to place yourself in their story. Where do your experiences—your questions, confusion, doubts, hopes, and fears—intersect with theirs?

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Podcast Intro recorded by Ariana Sefa

from Rev. Dr. Mark Sandlin:

Resurrection is what happens every time love refuses to stay buried, every time hope rises up out of places everyone else has given up on, every time a community comes back together after being torn apart, every time justice gets back on its feet after being knocked down again.

Look at the world. Everywhere there’s pain, there’s also someone showing up with compassion. Everywhere there’s despair, there’s someone planting seeds anyway. That’s resurrection! That’s new life breaking through the cracks.

Resurrection isn’t magic. It’s movement. It’s love getting up again and again…

If you want to experience resurrection, you just have to pay attention to the ways love keeps choosing to rise right in front of you.

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Where do you see signs of resurrection breaking through — in your life, in your community, or in the world — and how might God be inviting you to join in that rising love?

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Podcast Intro recorded by Ariana Sefa

We are spending this Lenten season in Samaria, at a well with Jesus. Join us between now and Easter as we slowly unpack this familar story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman and what it might mean to encounter Jesus at the wells of our own ordinary lives.

Note: There is no recording of Part 1 because we had table conversations rather than a regular sermon. However, you can read my written reflections for part 1 at https://www.craigsefa.org/blog/2026/02/22/a-dry-and-weary-land

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Podcast Intro recorded by Ariana Sefa

We are spending this Lenten season in Samaria, at a well with Jesus. Join us between now and Easter as we slowly unpack this familar story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman and what it might mean to encounter Jesus at the wells of our own ordinary lives.

Note: There is no recording of Part 1 because we had table conversations rather than a regular sermon. However, you can read my written reflections for part 1 at https://www.craigsefa.org/blog/2026/02/22/a-dry-and-weary-land

The spoken word segment at the beginning of this sermon can be found in video format at https://youtu.be/Q49BbfgJbto?si=eAD_HPG1Kar03Tjf

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Podcast Intro recorded by Ariana Sefa

We are spending this Lenten season in Samaria, at a well with Jesus. Join us between now and Easter as we slowly unpack this familar story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman and what it might mean to encounter Jesus at the wells of our own ordinary lives.

Note: There is no recording of Part 1 because we had table conversations rather than a regular sermon. However, you can read my written reflections for part 1 at https://www.craigsefa.org/blog/2026/02/22/a-dry-and-weary-land

The spoken word segment at the beginning of this sermon can be found in video format at https://youtu.be/Q49BbfgJbto?si=eAD_HPG1Kar03Tjf

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Podcast Intro recorded by Ariana Sefa

We are spending this Lenten season in Samaria, at a well with Jesus. Join us between now and Easter as we slowly unpack this familar story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman and what it might mean to encounter Jesus at the wells of our own ordinary lives.

Note: There is no recording of Part 1 because we had table conversations rather than a regular sermon. However, you can read my written reflections for part 1 at https://www.craigsefa.org/blog/2026/02/22/a-dry-and-weary-land

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Podcast Intro recorded by Ariana Sefa

We are spending this Lenten season in Samaria, at a well with Jesus. Join us between now and Easter as we slowly unpack this familar story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman and what it might mean to encounter Jesus at the wells of our own ordinary lives.

Note: There is no recording of Part 1 because we had table conversations rather than a regular sermon. However, you can read my written reflections for part 1 at https://www.craigsefa.org/blog/2026/02/22/a-dry-and-weary-land

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Podcast Intro recorded by Ariana Sefa