Death Is Defeated

Recorded live at the Second Sunday of Easter service, April 12, 2026.

The Rev. David McEachron presided and preached the children’s sermon.

The live-stream of this entire service is available on the church’s YouTube channel (@stmatthewsmn).  Click   here to access the full service.  Our YouTube channel has a separate video of the sermon alone.

Image: Gold medallion inscribed with depiction of Doubting Thomas, Calabria (?), 7th c. Diocesan Museum Freising, Germany. At the top are Thomas’s words “Ο ΚΣ ΜΟΥ ΚΑΙ Ο ΘΕΟΣ ΜΟΥ” (“My Lord and my God” John 20:28). At bottom are Jesus’s response, “ΟΤΙ ΕΟΡΑΚΑΣ ΜΕ ΠΕΠΙΣΤΕΥ ΚΑΣ” (“Because you have seen me, you have believed” John 20:29).
Photograph (2023) by Wikimedia Commons User:Martinus KE, reproduced under CC-BY-SA 4.0