"The Longing to Go Home"

In this moving and poetic sermon, Reverend Billy Cerveny explores one of the deepest themes in human experience: our longing for home. Drawing from Hebrews 9 and the grand narrative of Scripture, he shows how this inner ache—felt in our hearts, heard in our favorite songs, and witnessed in our striving—is an echo of Eden. It is a longing not only for peace or purpose, but for restored communion with the God who made us.

Reverend Cerveny traces this longing from creation, where humanity walked with God in Eden, through exile, and into the promise of restoration fulfilled in Christ. With vivid illustrations—from the architecture of the temple’s Holy of Holies to the embroidered cherubim on its veil—he reveals how even the design of worship in ancient Israel pointed back to the lost garden and forward to our eternal hope.