Psalm 66:8-20
Easter 6A
[…] season, Easter is frankly fading from our minds. The trumpets are stored away, the lilies have long been consigned to the trash, and we’re moving on to Ascension Day and Pentecost. So it’s a good thing to preach on Psalm 66 today, because it reminds us that every Sunday, indeed, every day is a celebration […]
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 […]
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 […]
Psalm 121
Proper 24C
[…] of the universe, where he rules all things for the church. That gives us a whole new way of understanding the God who watches over us. The Ascension and Coronation of Jesus re-orients our faith in God’s care as we journey upwards to our final meeting with God. Ephesians 1 assures us that God […]
Acts 2:14a, 22-32
Easter 2A
[…] God’s set purpose and foreknowledge” (23). They, in other words, couldn’t know what was really going on in Jesus life and death, as well as resurrection and ascension, unless someone told them. Peter’s hearers needed the Spirit-filled Peter to explain it to them. In similar ways, those whom we teach and to whom we […]
Hebrews 9:24-28 [10:11-18]
Proper 27B
[…] is, the devil, and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by the fear of death. (2: 14-15) The wonderful truth here is that Jesus’ ascension, or as Hebrews describes it, his entrance into the heavenly sanctuary, means that we enter there with him. He is in God’s presence on our behalf. […]
Acts 2:14a, 22-32
Easter 2A
[…] you plan to shutter your hardware store for good, for instance). Still, getting Matthias on board was about all we know about the time that passed between Ascension and Pentecost. But then the promised Holy Spirit did come and if the Spirit made once-weak and awkward and shy disciples into bold preachers, it is […]
John 21:1-19
Easter 3C
[…] 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 days later. Matthew gives us just a handful of verses but you don’t really notice how little Matthew gives following the resurrection on account of […]
John 13:31-35
Easter 5C
[…] from the cross. Consider: Jesus was preparing the disciples for his absence in these words of John 13. But as the Church prepares to mark again the Ascension of Christ in a couple of weeks, we no less than the disciples recognize that we must get used to the physical absence of the Savior. […]
Acts 2:2-21
Pentecost B
[…] Jesus’ frightened disciples as “assembled together.” So we almost get the sense that Jesus’ disciples have just moved in a clump, first to the site of Jesus’ ascension, then to the temple and then to a room in Jerusalem. Now, on the day of Pentecost, Jesus’ followers are again (or perhaps still) “all together […]
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