{"id":4480,"date":"2026-04-12T14:41:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/?p=4480"},"modified":"2026-04-13T17:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:16:21","slug":"after-john-2019-31-april-12th-2026-second-sunday-of-easter-pastor-lucas-albrecht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/after-john-2019-31-april-12th-2026-second-sunday-of-easter-pastor-lucas-albrecht\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAfter\u201d \/ John 20:19-31 \/ April 12th, 2026 \/ Second Sunday of Easter \/ Pastor Lucas Albrecht"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sermon – April 12th<\/sup>, 2026
\n<\/strong>Hope Lutheran Church, Port Coquitlam BC
\n<\/strong>Text: John 20:19-31
\n<\/strong>Theme: “After”<\/strong><\/p>\n

___________________________<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Intr \u2013 <\/strong>We are in the second Sunday after Easter Sunday \u2014 also called the Second Sunday of Easter. We are past the episodes of Holy Week.<\/p>\n

After<\/em>. There are many “afters” in our lives. Some of them are quite normal, even joyous. After grade one comes grade two. After one job comes the next. After your team wins a big championship, you celebrate. These are afters that are either simple transitions or causes for joy.<\/p>\n

But then there are those other<\/em> afters. After a divorce or separation. After we lose someone. After we lose a job we loved. After the hope we had in something is crushed and is no longer there. After<\/em>. And then we have to live with that \u2014 walk into that after and figure out the next steps.<\/p>\n

An “after” story<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Let me share something I don\u2019t share very often. I\u2019ll do it today because it happened right after a Holy Week<\/em>, and it falls squarely in that second category of difficult afters<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It was the year 2009. The university I was working at \u2014 and everything I\u2019m sharing here is public knowledge, more public than we\u2019d like it to be \u2014 was in serious trouble. It was a large institution: 5,000 employess across the country. But the financial crisis of 2008 brought devastation across the globe, and that university was not prepared. A series of compounding problems came to a head in early 2009.<\/p>\n

Things were going off the rails. At one point, our salaries were 30 days late. Then over the following months, it was a constant drip: we would get 10% one week, another 10% the next, then 5%, then 15%. It was terrible. It all culminated during Holy Week, and the week after, everything had to change. The university president had to be removed. On a Friday night, we held a voters\u2019 meeting, and things began to move from there.<\/p>\n

It was chaos. And especially for us in campus ministry, as pastors of that institution, we were dealing with people\u2019s anger, frustration, and hopelessness. \u201cWhat about the future, pastor? What\u2019s coming? What\u2019s going to happen with our beloved institution?\u201d It was already a very difficult before<\/em>. But the after<\/em> \u2014 the aftermath of having to remove the president, with the news spreading across the state \u2014 was even more difficult.<\/p>\n

Looking back, I think there were three things that surfaced during that time. Three things that might resonate with you in whatever after you are facing.<\/p>\n

First: fear. Second: the need for peace and restoration. And third: faith \u2014 the need for it to be restored, renewed, and reignited.<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Disciples\u2019 After<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I use those three things because they connect directly to what we heard in the Gospel today. Our situations in life are hard enough, but the disciples were coming off something far darker: not a difficult voters\u2019 meeting, but a Friday on which their Messiah, the leader they had followed, was crucified. They had to deal with the after<\/em> of that.<\/p>\n

Their hope. Their promise. Crushed. In their perception, everything had crumbled. Jesus was gone.<\/em><\/p>\n

And even though, on the morning of the resurrection, they see the empty tomb \u2014 and the Bible says Peter believed \u2014 by that same evening they are still behind locked doors, afraid of what the Jewish leaders might do. The authorities were already spreading the story about a stolen body. Fear had gripped them completely.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

1. Fear<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Gospel tells us plainly: \u201con the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were.\u201d The fear was so intense that eight days later \u2014 after they had already seen Jesus, after he had said \u201cPeace be with you\u201d \u2014 the doors were locked again.<\/p>\n

They were just too human. Just like you and me.<\/em><\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t know what was coming. Jesus had appeared, yes. But he had been killed once. Would he be killed again? Would they be safe? Fear has a way of paralyzing us, even when something is unfolding right before our eyes. Even when we have every reason to trust, uncertainty can grip us and make it hard to see with the eyes of faith.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the same kind of fear that sometimes comes upon us \u2014 when we\u2019re facing the consequences of our choices, when things aren\u2019t going the way we\u2019d hoped. Fear. Paralysis. Uncertainty.<\/p>\n

And I want to say this clearly: it doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019ve lost your faith because you\u2019re fearful. You may be wavering, but that\u2019s not the same as faith being gone. It just means you are human.<\/p>\n

Fear is very real.<\/p>\n

But we don\u2019t stop there.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

2. Peace and Restoration<\/strong><\/h2>\n

We move forward and we see what happens on Easter Sunday evening, when Jesus comes to the disciples. And this is the second thing \u2014 the need for peace and restoration.<\/em><\/p>\n

Think about it: these are ten men who, in the hour Jesus needed them most, were nowhere to be found. Except for John, they had all scattered. What could Jesus have walked into that room and said? \u201cWhere were you when I needed you? You, Peter. You, James. You, Andrew.\u201d<\/p>\n

But that is not what Jesus does. He knows what they need. So what are the first words out of his mouth? \u201cPeace be with you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

What brings peace to a heart that is afraid and ashamed? Forgiveness. Jesus comes into that room and forgives them \u2014 not by lecturing them, but by giving them peace.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And not only that. He sends them. The very men who had failed him in the most crucial hour, he looks at and says: \u201cJust as the Father sent me, I am sending you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t you sometimes feel that God can\u2019t use you? That the way your life is going, there\u2019s nothing left in you worth using? Now think about this: Jesus took ten people who had done something most of us would find very hard to forgive in a friend. And he first calms their hearts, restores their peace, and then says: go. I trust you. Not because of your worth. Because of my grace.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s a reminder for us too. In our afters<\/em>, when we feel worthless or discouraged or stuck, Jesus comes to us and says the same: peace be with you. I am here. You will still lock the doors of your heart sometimes. You will still be afraid. But I am here. And I am sending you \u2014 with the gifts you have, with the weaknesses you carry \u2014 because I called you.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

3. Restored Faith<\/strong><\/h2>\n

And then there is Thomas. Thomas, who was not present the first time Jesus appeared. Thomas, who has gone down in history \u2014 unfortunately for him \u2014 as the doubting Thomas<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But did he end up just doubting? No. Thomas\u2019s confession is one of the most beautiful in all of Scripture: \u201cMy Lord and my God.\u201d Kyrios \u2014 the word used in Greek for Yahweh, the name of God in the Old Testament. Thomas is confessing that Jesus is God. The doubting Thomas becomes the confessing Thomas.<\/em> And he is confessing what you and I confess to this day.<\/p>\n

Yes, Thomas should perhaps have believed on the word of the ten others who had seen the Lord. The Old Testament says that by the word of two or three witnesses, every matter is established \u2014 and he had ten. But remember: the other disciples also needed to see Jesus with their own eyes. Jesus even invited them to look at his hands and his side.<\/p>\n

The weakness of Thomas is sometimes our weakness too. We want a sign. \u201cGod, if you just do this one thing, then I\u2019ll trust you even more.\u201d As if we needed that thing to supplement his Word. And if it does happen, praise God for it. But our faith is not built on touching things. It is built on the Word.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jesus says to Thomas: \u201cBecause you have seen me, you have believed.\u201d And then \u2014 this is where you and I appear in the Gospel: \u201cBlessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.\u201d That\u2019s your name right there. Because you are here today, believing in a Jesus you haven\u2019t seen with these eyes.<\/p>\n

Now, this is important to say: we are people who believe without seeing, but we are not people who believe without reading<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em> We know Jesus from the Word. We need to read the Word. We need to hear it, to inwardly digest it, to be soaked in it. That\u2019s where we see him. That\u2019s where he shows his love and his grace \u2014 and his law too. And that\u2019s where we find our Savior, who died on the cross to rescue us from sin.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Conclusion – \u00a0<\/strong>Let me close with this. You might have been hoping I would tell you that six months later, the university had paid all its bills and everything was back on track. I\u2019m sorry to say it wasn\u2019t. Things were really, genuinely bad, and the aftermath of that situation dragged on for years. I left Brazil in 2016, and things were still being reshaped, still trying to find their footing. The damage was extensive.<\/p>\n

But through all of it, those three things were present. The fears were real. But God\u2019s peace was real too. And a restored faith in Jesus was there to guide us, leading campus ministry and other parts of the institution to keep trusting the Lord.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what after you are in right now. I hope it\u2019s a good one. But it may not be. Whatever it is \u2014 remember: fears are real, but Jesus\u2019s peace is real too. After fear comes his peace. After our sin comes his forgiveness. After a difficult situation, when you walk into that after, Jesus is already there \u2014 holding your hand, guiding your steps.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As he did before<\/em>, He will always be there after<\/em> too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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