Psalm 16
Easter 2A
[…] the very Son of God was dead and doing what all dead flesh does: rot. Obviously since we are looking at Psalm 16 for the Sunday after Easter in Year A and in the year 2026 it may seem strange that I am layering Jesus’s suffering onto Psalm 16 to show that in some […]
Psalm 31:9-16
Palm Sunday A
[…] the Lord.” Jesus’s story has that kind of ending too. It’s called resurrection. But as we have noted in other commentaries in Lent, let’s not rush to Easter in ways that make us in essence brush past the agony of our Lord. Salvation was costly. Let’s not let the “happy ending” of it all […]
1 John 5:9-13
Easter 7B
[…] Scripture, in this case I John, as we try to figure out our basic faith posture in a doubt filled world. In this last reading for the Easter season, John returns to his fourth test (the spiritual one), introduced back in 3:24. “This is how we know he lives in us: We know it […]
1 Peter 3:13-22
Easter 6A
[…] taken place: namely, God’s own Son got killed. Yet our hope emerges through the gloom of Good Friday onto the other side in the shining resplendence of Easter. God has brought victory out of this world’s worst event, and if God could do that, then there really is hope for the whole blessed kit-and-caboodle! […]
Revelation 7:9-17
Easter 4C
[…] earth and heaven. While so much besieges Jesus’ followers, one day God will completely redeem us from all those threats. However, this prospect already shapes the post- Easter lives of people of the resurrection. We humbly and persistently work to display more and more of the unity among Christians for which Jesus prayed and […]
Psalm 30
Easter 3C
[…] mentor to me, he slowly on became a close friend, then a confidant and colleague, and later for twelve years I became his pastor. Wally died on Easter in 2021 and among the reflections I put together for an initial memorial service and then later the full funeral was the fact that every time […]
1 John 5:1-6
Easter 6B
[…] were the believers. Which religion they professed did not seem to matter. Ginzburg describes how a group of semi-literate believers refused to go out to work on Easter Sunday. In the Siberian cold, they were made to stand barefoot on an ice-covered pond, where they continued to chant their prayers. “Later that night, the […]
Psalm 23
Easter 4B
[…] this be the benediction I use at weddings and funerals. And it very much speaks to the sentiments and emotions evoked by Psalm 23 and of the Easter hope for our slain-lamb-turned-shepherd Savior: God go before you to guide you. God go behind you to protect you. God go beneath you to support you. […]
Luke 24:36-48
Easter 3B
[…] refuse to believe, they have to keep wondering about what is going on and reason things out some more. How often have you or I encountered God’s Easter power, been overwhelmed in gratitude or joy, but then began to wonder and question its realness? Maybe it wasn’t a miracle… maybe that wasn’t God at […]
1 John 1:1-2:2
Easter 2B
[…] “the atoning sacrifice [hilasmos] for our sins, and not only for our sins but also for the sins of the whole world [holou tou kosmou].” In this Easter season, Jesus’ friends remember how his death rescued us from the darkness we love and brought us into something of the light that characterizes the Triune […]
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