Advent 1: At That Time
[…] afraid. Nothing that happens now, and nothing that may happen when the end truly is near, will alter the unshakeable fact that in his death, resurrection, and ascension, Jesus won a cosmic victory over evil that will never he undone. Maybe this is why our passage’s concluding verses this morning tell us that the […]
Easter: Enough
[…] 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 sit here today as living witnesses to the fact that […]
Acts 1:6-14
Easter 7A
On this Seventh Sunday of the Easter season, it is fitting that the first reading is about the Ascension of Jesus. There is a real sense in which Jesus’ resurrection and his ascension are two parts of one glorious act; he rose from the dead and he kept rising into heaven. Between the two […]
Acts 10:34-43
Easter Day A
[…] a tomb. He was seen by precious few folks across the whole forty days he hung around on earth prior to returning to his Father in the Ascension. And even those few who did see him post-Easter apparently had very little to share about those forty days since the Gospels—and the very first few […]
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 […]
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 […]
Psalm 46
Proper 29C
[…] the new born King. Then we followed him to his death on the cross as the “King of the Jews,” celebrated his re-coronation in his resurrection and ascension, and rejoiced in his regal outpouring of his Spirit on Pentecost. In the season after Pentecost, Ordinary Time, we focused on what it means to follow […]
Colossians 3:1-4
Easter Day A
[…] the expense of closer-to-hand matters here on earth. And yet . . . so much of the New Testament fights against that mentality. I once did an Ascension Day sermon in which I juxtaposed Colossians 3 with the ascension story in Acts 1 in which the angels of God told the disciples to stop staring […]
Acts 1:15-17, 21-26
Easter 7B
[…] choice for today. We’ve been following the progress of the Gospel out into the world, following Jesus directions/prophecy in Acts 1:8. And given that last Thursday was Ascension Day and that next Sunday will be Pentecost, I expected to focus today on those two great moments in Redemptive History from which the progress of the […]
John 20:1-18
Easter Day A
[…] 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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