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Easter 2A Sermon Commentary

 

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John 20:19-31 Sermon Commentary

Easter 2A

Poor Thomas.  He is the classic example of the old saying, “Make just ONE little mistake and you’re labeled for life!”  Or in Thomas’s case, labeled for something more like FOREVER!  But honestly, would any of us be so different were we faced with what Thomas confronted?  Probably not.  We’d be skeptical too.  After all,…

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Psalm 16 Sermon Commentary

Easter 2A

Psalm 16 is the perfect Psalm for this second Sunday of the Easter season. The last 3 verses were the text for Peter’s Pentecost sermon, in which he proved from Scripture that Jesus’ death and resurrection had always been at the heart God’s plan of salvation.  Psalm 16 is also the perfect Psalm for our…

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1 Peter 1:3-9 Sermon Commentary

Easter 2A

For all its lyric beauty, at the end of it all these verses from 1 Peter 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…

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Acts 2:14a, 22-32 Sermon Commentary

Easter 2A

Sometimes we need help understanding even the events that we ourselves witness.  After all, no two-eyewitness accounts, to say nothing of the interpretations of the same incident are exactly the same. For our text’s Peter, there can be no doubt about what has happened in just the past few months.  While we don’t know if…

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