John 14:8-23 | Mark DiCristina | May 24, 2026

Apostles Eastern Shore Sermons · May 26, 2026 · 17m

My Pentecost sermon was “inspired" in part by two sentences in N.T. Wright’s Surprised by Hope:

“In the new creation, the ancient human mandate to look after the garden is dramatically reaffirmed, as John hints in his resurrection story, where Mary supposed Jesus is the gardener. The resurrection of Jesus is the affirmation of the goodness of creation, and the gift of the Spirit is there to make us the fully human beings we were supposed to be, precisely so that we can fulfill that mandate at last.” (pp 220-221)

It also was inspired by spending so much time in John’s Gospel this year, and in…