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Matthew 28:1-10 Sermon Commentary
Easter Day A
The world is about to turn! It is no longer the Sabbath and a new day and a new week is dawning. I just love that the NRSV describes the time with the -ing ending on dawn. Easter is meant for dawnings. We go from the quiet of the dawn to the shock of an…
Jeremiah 31:1-6 Sermon Commentary
Easter Day A
Illustration: Have you ever experienced a moment when time stood still? Maybe you were afraid to breathe for fear of breaking the magic of the moment. It’s the stuff of hospital bedsides – the passing on of death and the passing into life of birth. It’s the good news of a proposal, the announcement of…
Colossians 3:1-4 Sermon Commentary
Easter Day A
On the American National Library of Medicine website the cognitive therapist Dr. Dean Schuyler reflects on what we might think of as what people often “set” our “hearts on” (cf. Colossians 3:2). “What,” he asks there, “do we think about? “We anticipate sometimes, thinking about events to come. We think about our children and sometimes…
Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 Sermon Commentary
Easter Day A
Sometimes I think the Revised Common Lectionary wants to test the creativity of us preachers. Just last week for Palm Sunday / Passion Sunday, the Year A Lectionary served up either Psalm 118 or Psalm 31. Now on Easter we get Psalm 118 again and if you look ahead a little down the RCL road,…
Commentary posted on March 30, 2026
Easter Day A Sermon Commentary
The Easter Day A Sermon Commentaries include reflection and illustration ideas for Matthew 28:1-10 from the Lectionary Gospel; Jeremiah 31:1-6 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 from the Lectionary Psalms; and Colossians 3:1-4 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: Lectionary Epistle: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 45 (Lord’s Day 17)