05.03.26: Listen to Peter: Chosen, Royal, and Holy

05.03.26: Listen to Peter: Chosen, Royal, and Holy

What did the world see when it first looked at the church? A ragtag group of peasants following a failed messiah. On the fifth Sunday of Easter, Rev. Dr. Jarrod Longbons continues the Listen to Peter series with 1 Peter 2:2–10 — the passage where the apostle hands marginalized believers four words that have outlived every empire that mocked them: chosen, royal, holy, God's own. Drawing on the South African concept of ubuntu and the Pygmalion effect, Longbons argues that what we see is what we become. Don't beg the world for validation. You've already been called out of the darkness. #ListenToPeter #NotesOnDoingChristianity #1Peter2 #LivingStones #RoyalPriesthood #HolyNation #ChosenPeople #FifthSundayOfEaster #EasterSeason #Ubuntu #ArtOfSeeing #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #SermonSeries #RevDrJarrodLongbons

04.26.26: Listen to Peter: When Suffering Is a Credit

Not all suffering is created equal. On the fourth Sunday of Easter, Rev. Dr. Jarrod Longbons opens a new four-week series — Listen to Peter: Notes on Doing Christianity — with 1 Peter 2:19–25. Peter draws a hard line between the suffering that's just consequence and the suffering that's a credit. If you ache because you've done wrong, that's growing up. But if you ache because you've followed Jesus into a world that doesn't want him, that's looking like Jesus. Keep your eyes on the cross, church. This is not the end. #ListenToPeter #NotesOnDoingChristianity #1Peter2 #SufferingForChrist #FollowingJesus #FourthSundayOfEaster #EasterSeason #ChristianWitness #ChristTheShepherd #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #SermonSeries #RevDrJarrodLongbons

04.19.26: Pilgrims of Hope: Hearts Still Burning on the Road

You don't arrive. You keep walking. On the third Sunday of Easter, Rev. Dr. Jarrod Longbons follows two disciples on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13–35), where Jesus appears as a stranger, opens the scriptures, and is recognized only in the breaking of bread — then vanishes, sending them back the way they came with hearts still burning. Drawing on his own near-death experience and the fade-out that follows any spiritual high, Longbons makes the case that black belts are beginners and the Christian life is less arrival than savoring. Keep walking, pilgrims. Christ is still on the road.#PilgrimsOfHope #Emmaus #Luke24 #RoadToEmmaus #BreakingOfBread #HeartsBurning #EasterSeason #ThirdSundayOfEaster #SacredPilgrimage #Discipleship #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #SermonSeries #RevDrJarrodLongbons

04.12.26: Pilgrims of Hope: New Creation in a Locked Room

What if the locked room where the disciples hid was the garden where God was breathing life back into the world? On the second Sunday of Easter, Rev. Brooks Gignilliat reads John 20:19–31 against the opening pages of Genesis — and finds Jesus, on the first day of the week, breathing on his disciples the way God once breathed on Adam. Thomas wants to grasp; he wants the facts in his own hands. But faith isn't grasping — it's letting go long enough to say, "My Lord and my God." The point was never the answers. The point is the relationship.#PilgrimsOfHope #DoubtingThomas #John20 #NewCreation #BreathOfLife #SecondSundayOfEaster #EasterSeason #FromFearToFaith #MyLordAndMyGod #SacredPilgrimage #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #SermonSeries #RevBrooksGignilliat

04.05.26: Easter Sunday: The Glory of God is You, Fully Alive

The Roman soldiers had everything the world calls life — power, position, pay — and at the sight of resurrection, they fell over like dead men. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary had nothing the world counts — and they ran from the empty tomb fully alive, fear and joy pulsing through them. On Easter Sunday, Rev. Dr. Jarrod Longbons preaches Matthew 28:1–10 alongside St. Irenaeus's old line: the glory of God is a human being fully alive. Christ is risen. The question is whether you are.#eastersunday #Easter2026 #Matthew28 #ChristIsRisen #ResurrectionDay #FullyAlive #GloryOfGod #StIrenaeus #EmptyTomb #TheTwoMarys #PCCAtlanta #PeachtreeChristianChurch #SermonSeries #RevDrJarrodLongbons