Why Did This Happen?

A Sermon Series on Vulnerability, Suffering, and the Audacity of Hope

What do you do when life unravels without warning?
When the loss is sudden? The trauma, crippling? The diagnosis, cruel? The silence, deafening?

What do you make of a world that no longer feels safe, fair, or fixable?
How do you keep going when your prayers feel unanswered and your faith becomes threadbare?

These are the moments that break us down and expose our deep vulnerabilities.
These are the seasons when suffering doesn’t knock on the door–it kicks it down and moves in.
And the soul cries: Why did this happen?

This series is not about quick fixes and easy answers. It’s about something profoundly deeper.
It’s about learning to honestly name our pain, while holding on (sometimes trembling) to the audacious hope that suffering does not and will not have the final word!

At the heart of our faith stands a cross and an empty tomb. Behind both is a God who refuses to stand apart from suffering, but deliberately steps into it; a Savior whose scars were not erased, but transformed; and a resurrection that doesn’t deny the pain—but defeats its power.

That is why in a world full of wounds, we will dare to believe in healing; in a world shadowed by death, we will cling to life; and in the face of everything that feels broken, we will lift our eyes to
the One who makes all things new.

This is a series for the weary, the wounded, and the wondering.
So, bring your questions, your anger, your fears, and your scars.
And in the middle of it all…find hope.