Luke 24:36-48
Easter 3B
Comments and 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 […]
Isaiah 65:17-25
Easter Day C
Every preacher knows what a challenge it is to preach on Easter. On the one hand, it is the epicenter of the Gospel, the event that makes or breaks the claims of Jesus, as Paul says in I Corinthians 15. So, how can we mere mortals do justice to such a world changing moment […]
John 21:1-19
Easter 3C
[…] that Mark failed to notice a miracle had taken place. Luke gives us a memorable post-resurrection story on the Road to Emmaus that happened yet that first Easter day (and Jesus definitely seems alive and well in that story) but then Luke rather swiftly fast-forwards to an exceedingly brief account of the ascension 40 […]
Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24
Easter Day B
Psalm 118 is the Lectionary’s default Psalm for Holy Week. It is used in all three years of the cycle for both Palm Sunday and Easter. It is easy to see why. Verses 26-27 are a virtual description of what would happen on Palm Sunday and verses 17-18 fairly shout, “Easter.” Making a connection […]
Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24
Easter Day C
Many times I have questioned the lectionary’s choices for specific Sundays or seasons, but not this Easter Sunday. With good reason, Psalm 118 is the Easter Sunday selection from the Psalms for all three years of the lectionary cycle. Even a cursory reading reveals numerous connections with Jesus’ last days and with the first […]
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 […]
Psalm 22:25-31
Easter 5B
[…] reading from the last verses of Psalm 22. It was our assignment two months ago during Lent and is now our reading for this Fifth Sunday of Easter. What were the developers of the RCL thinking?! Well, maybe they were like my old high school basketball coach, who made us run the same drills […]
Four Pages: The Incognito Christ: the Walking Partner
[…] a long lost friend or even risen and returning Savior. At first he appears to many of even those who knew him best as a stranger. On Easter we watched the sobbing Mary meet the resurrected Jesus. Yet we also saw how she doesn’t recognize him through her tears. Only when the risen Jesus […]
Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24
Easter Day A
What every preacher needs on Easter Sunday is an angle. Everyone already knows the story, so it is hard to astonish people as the women astonished the disciples with the news of an empty tomb on that first Easter morning. To help people experience that primitive astonishment and the kind of joyful thanksgiving to […]
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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