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John 20:1-18

Easter Day C

A friend of mine who is a true believer in the Gospel once confessed to me that Easter services can be a little hard on him.  There’s just something about all that exuberance, all that blaring brass, all those bright lights and white lilies that combine to go sufficiently over the top in ways he…

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Symposium 2018: Jesus Appears to Thomas

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John 20:19-31

Easter 2B

Doubting Thomas. Don’t you hate it when you make one mistake and it defines you from then on out?! One little mistake and Thomas becomes a morality lesson, a byword, a counter-example of anything we’d ever want to be. In truth, however, there is more than a little of Thomas in all of us. When…

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John 20:19-23

Pentecost A

My friend the Bible teacher/commentator Dale Bruner is a wonderful teacher of biblical stories.  Part of Dale’s teachings usually include some dramatic re-enactments of the story at hand.  He always elicits a chuckle from the class at this point in John 20 when he reaches a certain part in the story’s re-telling only to reach…

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John 20:19-31

Easter 2A

Poor Thomas.  He is the classic example of the old saying, “Make just ONE little mistake and you’re labeled for life!”  Or in Thomas’s case, labeled for something more like FOREVER!  But honestly, would any of us be so different were we faced with what Thomas confronted?  Probably not.  We’d be skeptical too.  After all,…

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John 20:19-31

Easter 2C

Sample Sermon : Why didn’t they go looking for him? Today we pick up right where we left off last week on Easter here in John 20. When last we saw the disciples, Mary Magdalene had just burst in with the excited and exciting news, “I have seen the Lord!” Earlier that day, when Mary…

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John 20:1-18

Easter Day C

A friend of mine who is a true believer in the Gospel once confessed to me that Easter services can be a little hard on him. There’s just something about all that exuberance, all that blaring brass, all those bright lights and white lilies that combine to go sufficiently over the top in ways he…

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John 20:19-31

Easter 2B

Comments and Observations: Doubting Thomas.  Don’t you hate it when you make one mistake and it defines you from then on out?!  One little mistake and Thomas becomes a morality lesson, a byword, a counter-example of anything we’d ever want to be.  In truth, however, there is more than a little of Thomas in all…

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Seeing is Believing

Sermon for Easter on John 20 by William Willimon at Duke University Chapel on April 11, 2004. Used by permission of Duke Chapel and the author.

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