Acts 3:12-19
Easter 3B
[…] and evil have messed things up and pointed people in the direction of amor mortis). “Jesus Lives and So Do We” is the title of a traditional Easter hymn. Peter anticipated that hymn when he connected the restored life of the formerly crippled beggar with the new life that burst forth from Jesus at […]
Acts 2:14a, 22-32
Easter 2A
For those who follow the RCL, Easter is not just a one off event. The RCL devotes 7 Sundays to the Easter season, so that the church has ample opportunity to reflect on the most earthshaking event in history. As a relative newcomer to the Lectionary, I think that is a superb idea. But […]
Isaiah 25:6-9
Easter Day B
What a delightful, even delicious alternative reading for Easter Sunday! The regular (Old Testament?) reading is from Acts 10:34-43, Peter’s proclamation of the Easter message to the Roman centurion, Cornelius. I wrote on that text last Easter, so I thought I’d give you an alternative way to proclaim the familiar message of Christ’s resurrection—not […]
Psalm 148
Easter 5C
On this fifth Sunday of Easter, we continue our exploration of the impact of Christ’s resurrection. After a lovely look at Easter comfort in Psalm 23 last Sunday, our reading from Psalm 148 brings us back to the theme of celebration. In Psalm 148 we move from the intimate comfort of “The Lord is […]
John 13:31-35
Easter 5C
[…] the time 23 years earlier when old Mom and Dad came within a whisker of divorcing each other. So as we are in the blessed Season of Eastertide, why does the Lectionary do something similar by whisking us back up to the darkest night of Jesus’ life? Why bring us back to the scene […]
Acts 2:42-47
Easter 4A
We are in our fourth Sunday of reflections on Easter, using the book of Acts as our guide. We began on Easter in Acts 10, where we saw the world-changing significance of Christ’s Resurrection in Peter’s startling realization that God includes people from every nation in his covenantal embrace. Then we backed up to […]
1 Corinthians 15:19-26
Easter Sunday
[…] Observations, and Questions Death stinks – both literally and figuratively. While such a reminder may not seem like a particularly popular (or common) way to begin an Easter proclamation, it is the context within which we begin any and every proclamation of Easter’s great news. Even after Jesus rose from the dead, death still […]
Psalm 114
Easter Day B
Psalm 114 is a curious choice for Easter Evening by the Revised Common Lectionary. It is a short poem and one that is probably not overly familiar to a lot of churchgoing Christians. It is primarily a metaphorical celebration of the Exodus from Egypt but it goes a bit further than just that event […]
Psalm 30
Easter 3C
In this Easter season, the lectionary readings call the church to explore and live into and celebrate the impact of Easter. With its imagery of death and resurrection, Psalm 30 is a perfect post-Easter Psalm. Its purpose is to keep the memory of our deliverance from death alive by voicing the deliverance again and […]
Colossians 3:1-4
Easter Day A
This Sunday’s Epistolary Lesson challenges and stretches Christians’ understanding of Easter’s ongoing importance. Christians profess that approximately two thousand years ago, God the Father didn’t let God the Son stay dead. God raised Jesus from the dead (1). Jesus’ friends also understand at least some of the future implications of Jesus’ resurrection. Because God […]
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