Grace in a Ketchup Bottle

Grace in a Ketchup Bottle

Grace That Shows Up for Everyone—Sweet, Sour, and Hungry

April 20, 2025

Luke 24:1-12

Easter

Rev. Teer Hardy

So maybe ketchup isn’t the worst metaphor after all. Not because it’s clever or funny (though many of you were worried about where this sermon was going). But because it’s ordinary. It’s always there. It meets every taste and doesn’t discriminate. It doesn’t try to be impressive. It just shows up and makes everything else taste more like itself.

Jesus doesn’t wait for belief to show up. He shows up to bring it with him

That’s the resurrection: not boutique grace, not gourmet faith, not salvation reserved for the religiously articulate.

It’s grace that meets the whole of who we are—sweet, sour, bitter, hopeful, grieving—and says:

“He is not here. He has risen.”