5th Sunday of Easter
John 14:1-14 So we are back today in the Gospel of John. And our lectionary timeline has gone a little wonky again. So we spent the first 3 weeks of the Easter season hearing stories that all took place basically on Easter day, then we took a weird detour off into the sheepfold for Good Shepherd Sunday last week and now we are going to travel back in time to right before Easter, to Maundy Thursday if you will, to the night of the Last Supper. Where this week we get to hear the beginning of this very long speech that Jesus gives to his disciples the night before he is crucified. It is his instructions to his disciples as he prepares them and all who will come after them for life together once he ceases to be there in the flesh with them. And Jesus begins his long final talk with this disciples with a promise. A very powerful promise. Now Jesus doesn’t promise them what they might want or expect, he doesn’t promise them safety ...