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She thought He was the gardener. She was more right than she knew.

In this Easter Sunday message from John 20:1–18, Pastor Brian Overturf traces one of the most overlooked details in the resurrection account — Mary Magdalene mistaking the risen Christ for the gardener — and shows why that moment is not a mistake at all. He IS the gardener. The second Adam, come back to tend what was broken in the first garden.

To understand Easter, you have to go back to Genesis 3. Because John 20 is not the beginning of this story. It is the conclusion of one that started thousands of years before the first Easter morning. The Bible opens in a garden. It closes in a garden. And in the middle, in another garden, the price is paid to bring us back to God.

This message walks through three movements: the garden where we lost everything, the garden where He took our place, and the garden where it is all restored. Along the way we look at John's gospel as a deliberate retelling of Genesis, the cast of characters assembled in both the garden of Genesis 3 and the garden of Gethsemane, the staggering significance of the Feast of Firstfruits and the timing of the resurrection, and the moment Jesus speaks one word, a name, that shatters grief and changes everything.

He called her name. He is calling yours.

THE245 Eschatology runs Sundays, April through June at Arvin Assembly. Register now at ⁠www.arvinassembly.com/eschatology⁠

Does it feel like the world is spinning out of control? Does God know what's happening — and does He have a plan? The answer is yes, and He wants you to know it.

In this episode, Pastor Brian gives a full preview of THE245 Eschatology, a new course launching this April through the Arvin Assembly School of the Bible. Eschatology is the study of last things — and roughly one in four Bible verses touches on prophecy. This isn't speculation or sensationalism. It's Scripture, and a lot of it has already come true.

Pastor Brian walks through the big events on the prophetic timeline: the Rapture, the Tribulation, the campaign of Armageddon, the Millennium, and the new heaven and new earth. Along the way he covers three major schools of thought on how prophecy unfolds — Amillennialism, Postmillennialism, and Premillennialism — and makes the case for why the Assemblies of God holds the premillennial position.

This class is accessible, relevant, and designed for regular people who love God's Word. If you can read your Bible, you can do this.

In the Crowd, Missing the King

Arvin Assembly of God | Arvin, California | March 29, 2026

Preached by Pastor Brian Overturf

Palm Sunday is the one Sunday of the year when the crowd is already excited before the sermon begins. But the original crowd on the first Palm Sunday was excited too, and they missed Him completely.

In this message from Luke 19:28 through 44, Pastor Brian traces three movements through the text: the deliberate, prophetically-loaded royal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem; the crowd's enthusiastic but dangerously misguided celebration; and the moment the parade stops because Jesus is weeping.

The palm branches were not a generic welcome. They were a military symbol rooted in the Maccabean revolt, and the crowd was waving them at Jesus because they wanted a general, not a Savior. They had received His miracles and rejected His mission. They shouted "Hosanna" meaning save us now, but had already decided what salvation was supposed to look like.

And Jesus wept. Not with them. Over them.