1 Corinthians 15:1-11
Easter Day B
OK, lots to say about these verses but to start: What do you mean, Paul, that Jesus appeared post- Easter to 500 people at once? When in the world did THAT pretty big event happen but that is referenced nowhere else in the Bible except in passing right here in 1 Corinthians 15? How […]
Colossians 3:1-4
Easter Day A
On that glorious first Easter morning an angel shocked people by insisting that God had raised Jesus from the dead. Two thousand years later an aging apostle may no less shock Colossians 3:1-4’s proclaimers and hearers by insisting that God also raised us with Christ. After all, if it’s sometimes hard to believe that […]
Mark 16:1-8
Easter 1B
[…] why end the gospel in that silence? Maybe it fits a larger theme Mark is working on. One of the most striking features of Mark’s telling of Easter is how it is framed by motion. The women begin in verses 1-4 moving toward the tomb, and they end in verse 8 moving rapidly away […]
Isaiah 25:6-9
Easter 1B
[…] repeatedly invites us to envision the shalom of God’s coming kingdom as a feast, a glorious banquet, how do we understand this? Among other things, as an Easter morning Old Testament reading—or as the preaching text for Easter evening—Isaiah 25 reminds us of several key features to the resurrection of Christ—features that we might […]
1 Peter 1:3-9
Easter 2A
[…] 1 represent a central paradox of the faith, one that Peter seems to be working his own way through even as he writes these words. As an Eastertide text, it’s clear enough to see Peter’s celebration of the resurrection and its history-shattering reality. This was a concrete, tangible event to which Peter was an […]
Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24
Easter Day A
[…] a Savior. Talk about your rejected stones . . . Jesus was indeed tossed aside, spurned, rejected, killed. Yet he was the One after all. On this Easter Sunday we see him raised by the power of the Father and made the head of the corner of a whole new edifice that just was […]
Romans 4:13-25
Lent 2B
[…] Jesus died, it must have seemed as if the whole world’s fate was to eventually die right along with him. But in the darkness of the first Easter, God slugged it out with the defending world champion, death. In that darkness, God crowned life the new world champion. The first Good Friday’s darkness symbolized […]
Acts 7:55-60
Easter 5A
[…] text. Perhaps that seems all the more to be the case when we realize this passage is assigned in the Year A Lectionary for the Season of Eastertide when, you might think, the focus ought to be on happier things than death by stoning (a horrible way to die if ever there were one). […]
Acts 17:22-31
Easter 6A
[…] is natural, an everyday event not so very different from maple trees budding out with new leaves after a winter season in which they looked dead. Easter = Springtime, the sprouting of daffodils and tulips after a bleak season of snow and ice. It happens all the time. Or say that whether Jesus […]
Luke 19:28-40
Palm Sunday C
[…] Twice we are told that the people doing the cheering were only Jesus’ disciples. Is this a real parade or a wannabe one? Illustration Ideas: Knowing that Easter is coming must not make us impatient to get to next Sunday morning but instead our Easter knowledge allows us to see the cross itself as […]
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