–44 on the raising of Lazarus—the climactic miracle that ends the first half of John’s Gospel. This is not a tidy Sunday school story. It’s a sermon about what love costs, where God actually lives, and who the church is supposed to be. Tom traces the escalating conflict between Jesus and the Jerusalem authorities, unpacks why Bethany wasn’t just a location but a theological statement, and explores the Greek distinction between Phileo and Agape love that English translations almost entirely miss. The result is a layered, honest look at grief, delay, mortality, and the kind of resurrection that begins not at the end of history but at the mouth of a tomb.