John 21:1-19
Easter 3C
[…] is an echo of that earlier event. I happen to think it was a purposeful act by Jesus the Christ to re-commission his apostles. Remember how our Easter Sunday text emphasized the lack of apostling by the apostles: by the very title, they were supposed to be the ones with the message of good […]
Psalm 150
Easter 2C
[…] can be glad not only to receive the praise imperative but to have regular opportunity to obey it, and most certainly our praise continues this week after Easter, after the grandest victory of God ever! Illustration Idea Note in this video of Paul McCartney: nobody had to issue a single imperative to get this […]
Luke 24:1-12
Easter Sunday
[…] he has seen with his own eyes hasn’t broken him for belief just yet. None of this feels like the good news we want to proclaim on Easter Sunday! But might there be some good news in these disappointments? First of all, there’s the good news that it doesn’t matter if we believe it […]
Psalm 30
Proper 5C
Easter and Eastertide have now passed this calendar year and yet in the Sundays after Pentecost the Lectionary provides us with some wonderful poetry to help us continue living into and celebrating Easter. With its imagery of death and resurrection, Psalm 30 is a perfect post-Easter Psalm. Its purpose is to keep the […]
Romans 8:22-27
Pentecost B
[…] Pentecost, 2015? As I pondered that, I recalled some wry comments made by Orthodox theologian Frederica Mathewes Green on the very different ways we celebrate Christmas and Easter. “It’s that time of year again, when school children are coloring pictures of Jesus hanging from a cross, and shop owners fill their windows with gaily […]
Luke 23:32-33; 39-43: Four Pages: Inconceivable!
[…] Already. Now. Wow! Heaven climbs as an invader through the picket line of earthly agony. Herod’s hordes can’t keep it out. Golgotha’s nails can’t keep it down. Easter’s tomb can’t hold it in. The Spirit of God is on the loose in the land, comforting us, guiding us, reminding us that even in our […]
Easter: The Next Step
Sermon on John 21 by John Rottman at River Terrace CRC in Lansing, Mich. Used by permission of River Terrace.
Psalm 98
Easter 6B
Reading Psalm 98 is like uncorking a well shook-up bottle of champagne. The cork rockets upward and the bubbly inside the bottle fountains forth in exuberance. We’ve all seen those locker rooms after a team wins the World Series or the Super Bowl when players spray each other with such bottles—some years ago someone finally…
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