1 Corinthians 15:1-11
Easter Day B
[…] authorities executed God the Son, God the Father graciously raised him from death to life. Christ Jesus rose again on the day Christians generally call the first Easter. In an earlier commentary on this passage I noted how Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection are like two sides of the same coin. Neither makes sense without […]
Acts 1:6-14
Easter 7A
[…] And the disciples’ minds are still focused on this earth too. “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” Forty days post- Easter and they are still focused on the same old political, earthly kingdom that kept them from really understanding Jesus’ mission for years in the first place. […]
John 14:1-14
Easter 5A
[…] glory in heaven, Jesus Christ will empower us through the Spirit to do. For glorification is also the preparatory work of heaven. As we seek to live Easter lives, transformed by faith and knowledge of our God, living with the fruit of God’s presence as we live in, with, surrounded by, and with Jesus […]
Acts 2:42-47
Easter 4A
[…] of what was at first known as “The Way” and what we now call the Church. Except in this passage in the Year A Fourth Sunday of Easter Lectionary. Here Luke gives us a veritable Norman Rockwell painting of that first Christian church community. It does not get more idyllic than this. If you […]
Acts 2:14a, 22-32
Easter 3A
[…] baptism die with Jesus. We drown. But if it’s Jesus we go down with, it is also Jesus we rise up with. And once that happens—once Jesus easters himself into our hearts—then we find that we are no longer far off. Nope! Now we are one with him, we live “in Christ” to use […]
Psalm 116:1-4, 12-19
Easter 3A
[…] “the resurrection and the life” came to her life’s end eventually too. Everyone does. I suppose that as this is the Psalm assigned for two weeks after Easter in the Year A Lectionary there may be some thought that we could envision Jesus himself reciting this. He did die (and his death was precious […]
John 20:19-31
Easter 2A
[…] blows wherever the Spirit wills. (As it is designed to do, our season of Lent this year has very much prepared for us for the season of Easter!) Jesus did, and through his Spirit does, much more than we know or imagine. May you (plural) come to believe. Textual Point Believe it or not, […]
John 20:1-18
Easter Day A
[…] the knowledge necessary to interpret the events? Illustration Idea English Puritan Thomas Goodwin (1600-80), Of the Object and Acts of Justifying Faith, wrote about the way this Easter encounter serves as a model of the immediate sense of God’s presence some of us Christians still have. Goodwin holds Mary up as an exemplary woman […]
Psalm 31:9-16
Palm Sunday
[…] on this psalm was in 2020 at the very moment when our wistful and wishful thoughts that the COVID lockdown could not possibly go so long as Easter that Spring were coming to a swift end. “I mean after all,” we all thought, “cancelling Easter services would mean the pandemic disruptions would have to […]
John 10:22-30
Easter 4C
[…] do). Following Jesus, listening to his voice, letting ourselves be known by him—and therefore having experiences that allow us to know Jesus—this is further description of the Easter Resurrection new life calling we’ve been hearing for the last few weeks. The same power that sustains everything, including God’s own self, the same power that […]
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