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Ascension Day: How We See Things
[…] in all the film is a stunning reminder of how small we are compared to the vastness of the universe. As part of this week’s celebration of Ascension Day, I invite you to take a similar trip of the imagination. Let’s begin somewhere out in the vastness of space and then let’s start zooming in. […]
Psalm 47
Easter 7B
[…] in all the film is a stunning reminder of how small we are compared to the vastness of the universe. As part of this week’s celebration of Ascension Day, I invite you to take a similar trip of the imagination. Let’s begin somewhere out in the vastness of space and then let’s start zooming in. […]
John 12:20-33
Lent 5B
[…] people to myself,” Jesus predicted in verse 32. Just in case we were tempted to think that this “lifting up” meant the glory of Easter or the Ascension or something, John inserts his own voice into the text once again in verse 33 to remind us that it was his raw and hideous death […]
Four Pages: On A Hill Far Away
[…] Christ died for us. God loved us and sent an atoning sacrifice for our sin. So that, in Christ’s incarnation, his life, his death, his resurrection and ascension, our salvation is begun. And, in Christ, the dividing lines of hostility is broken, every barrier is torn down. In Christ, “those people” become “our people.” […]
Luke 24:36-48
Easter 3B
The end of Luke’s Gospel sums it all up pretty well. In swift strokes of Luke’s quill, we move from Easter Sunday evening directly to the Ascension of Jesus (just beyond the bounds of this lection). We learn from Luke’s other New Testament contribution, Acts, that Jesus lingered in physical form for a good […]
Luke 24:36-48
Easter 3B
[…] Observations The end of Luke’s Gospel sums it all up pretty well. In swift strokes of Luke’s quill, we move from Easter Sunday evening directly to the Ascension of Jesus (just beyond the bounds of this lection). We learn from Luke’s other New Testament contribution, Acts, that Jesus lingered in physical form for a […]
Psalm 68:1-10, 32-35
Easter 7A
[…] done to preserve the peace by making war, let us celebrate today the sacrifice of Christ, who died violently to make us free and bring us peace. Ascension Day is a celebration of the victory of the Crucified God who arose and now “rides the ancient skies above.” Illustration Idea We humans love to celebrate […]
Palm Sunday: A Flash in the Dark
[…] looking for all along? Luke is the author who, in the first chapter of Acts, will show us that even as late as the day of Jesus’ ascension into heaven (a full forty days after Easter), even then the disciples were still asking the political question about when Jesus was going to kick out […]
Psalm 47
Easter 7B
[…] I know that the Lectionary reading for today is Psalm 1, but it makes more liturgical sense to deal with Psalm 47 which was the reading for Ascension Day.) Psalm 47 makes claims about the Ascended Lord that every Christian needs to hear, especially given the shape of the world today. I want to focus […]
John 20:1-18
Easter Day C
[…] his eyes. Now that she had this beloved Lord with her once more, she never wanted to lose him again. Yet Jesus said she had to. The ascension had to happen, and if there would be no holding onto Jesus before the ascension, we are now living witnesses to the fact that there is […]
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