04/13/2026
Easter at First & Calvary ✝️
Three services. One overflowing sanctuary. And a message about seeds of doubt meeting seeds of hope.
On Easter Sunday, F&C gathered across three services — 8:45, 9:45, and 11:00 AM — and the building was full in the best possible way. Stained glass, pipe organ, choir robes, brass, and somewhere in the middle of it all, a lot of kids in their Easter best gathered up front for the children's message.
Between services, from 9:20 to 10:45, we spilled into the fellowship hall for Easter Brunch — bright tablecloths, tulips, good food, better conversation. The kind of meal where nobody's in a hurry to leave.
Pastor Don preached from Psalm 147 and John 3, asking a question most of us have carried at some point: Does God actually delight in me? His answer, drawn straight from the text, was both honest and quietly stunning — God doesn't delight in the people who flex hardest for him. He delights in the ones who stop performing and start hoping. In hesed — that stubborn, covenantal, won't-let-you-go kind of love that put Jesus on a cross and pulled him out of a tomb.
Seeds of doubt, he said, are universal. But Easter has a way of planting something else in the mix.
Christ is risen. He is risen indeed.
(Want to go deeper? Alpha Live launches April 19th — an honest, low-pressure look at the Christian faith. Learn more here: https://www.firstandcalvary.org/alpha )
