Matthew 9:35-10:8
Proper 6A
[…] believed, most of their misunderstandings as to the nature of Jesus’ kingdom persist all the way until Pentecost. Remember Acts 1 and the moments right before Jesus’ ascension into heaven when—even at that late date some forty days after the resurrection—the disciples ask, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom […]
John 2:13-22
Lent 3B
[…] ministry, talk so much about gathering his sheep, breaking down the barriers that exclude us (anyone!) from the presence of God. His entire life, death, resurrection, and ascension is about making God’s presence our home. It’s the atonement in a nutshell. As Beasley-Murray summarizes, “The risen Lord is the ‘place’ where the glory of […]
Acts 1:15-17, 21-26
Easter 7B
[…] anyone: this is what Peter said! As a Lectionary preaching text, this one seems to be little more than a placeholder in between the period following Jesus’ ascension and the coming of the Holy Spirit. What, if anything, can the preacher say about a text like this? It seems a small matter of housekeeping […]
Psalm 112:1-9 (10)
Epiphany 5A
[…] going to experience plenty of trouble. The world that rejected the Master will reject the followers of the Master. And sure enough: in the decades following Jesus’ ascension into heaven after which he put his disciples in charge of things, they were to a person persecuted, roughed up, jailed, and ultimately killed for their […]
Psalm 16
Proper 28B
[…] the fact that both the apostles Peter (Acts 2: 34-38) and Paul (Acts 13: 35) directly linked the last verses of Psalm 16 to the resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ. In fact, the apostles combed the Psalms for every possible way in which they might refer to Jesus life and death. This might […]
Acts 3:12-19
Easter 3B
[…] servant, a humble peasant who died a humiliating death. On the other hand, he was the Suffering Servant of Isaiah, whom God has glorified in his resurrection, ascension and session at God’s right hand. The rest of Peter’s sermon explains both that humiliation and exaltation. Jesus’ deepest humiliation came at the hands of his […]
Luke 7:1-10
Proper 4C
[…] unworthy to have Jesus come under the roofs of our houses, the fact is he doesn’t do that now in any event. A few weeks out from Ascension Day and Pentecost, this story can remind us that indeed we live in “the already and the not yet,” in that in-between time during which our Savior […]
Psalm 112:1-9 (10)
Epiphany 5A
[…] going to experience plenty of trouble. The world that rejected the Master will reject the followers of the Master. And sure enough: in the decades following Jesus’ ascension into heaven after which he put his disciples in charge of things, they were to a person persecuted, roughed up, jailed, and ultimately killed for their […]
1 Corinthians 10:1-13
Lent 3C
[…] tasks. In this Lenten season, however, we perhaps especially see God’s extraordinary generosity most fully on display in the gift of Jesus Christ’s life, death, resurrection, and ascension, for the sake of the whole creation. God was exceptionally generous with God’s dearly beloved people that were Israel’s refugees in the wilderness between Egyptian slavery […]
Matthew 2:13-23
Christmas 1A
[…] we are honest and reflective enough, we will realize that it is one we all share: we reap the fruit of Jesus’s life and death, resurrection and ascension. We live because of him, and we die because of him. Others live because of him, and others will die horrendous deaths because of him. In […]
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