Confirmation Sunday at Jesse Lee was March 21. Our theme was “the light overcomes the darkness”…a very special pick by the confirmands who became church members on the first full day of spring, when the days become longer than the nights.

We used this mash-up of scripture, read as a script by 5 different voices:

Genesis: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

John: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.

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The truth is that we worship a timeless God. That statement conveys both the utmost expression of hope and the greatest mystery of the human existence. Everything that we experience has a start and a finish. We wake up and we go to sleep. Class begins and class ends. We’re born and we die. But worshiping a timeless God means that death isn’t the end. Rather, it’s the beginning of endlessness.