Psalm 66:8-20
Easter 6A
On this Sixth Sunday of the Easter season, Easter is frankly fading from our minds. The trumpets are stored away, the lilies have long been consigned to the trash, and we’re moving on to Ascension Day and Pentecost. So it’s a good thing to preach on Psalm 66 today, because it reminds us that […]
Psalm 118:1, 2, 14-24
Easter Day A
What every preacher needs on Easter Sunday is an angle. Everyone already knows the story, so it is hard to astonish people as the women astonished the disciples with the news of an empty tomb on that first Easter morning. To help people experience that primitive astonishment and the kind of joyful thanksgiving to […]
Acts 4:32-35
Easter 2B
[…] about a month, when she nailed me with this simple question. “So what? What difference does all that make?” In the Old Testament (?) readings for the Easter season, the RCL answers that question about Christ’s resurrection by taking us through the post-Easter story as told in the book of Acts. So, one man […]
Acts 4:32-35
Easter 2B
[…] unusual. As William Willimon has noted, there may even be something curious about the fact that this snippet of Acts 4 get assigned for the Sunday after Easter in the Year B Common Lectionary. After all, this is known as “Low Sunday” in a lot of places, not least because whereas the church had […]
Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24
Easter Day C
[…] even so cast aside, rejected, spurned, killed? Doesn’t that spurned stone that becomes highly important after all remind you of Someone? Isn’t this what the victory of Easter is all about in the first place? Apparently so. And while we are at it, we can notice the further irony that Psalm 118 as a […]
Acts 4:32-35
Easter 2B
[…] unusual. As William Willimon has noted, there may even be something curious about the fact that this snippet of Acts 4 get assigned for the Sunday after Easter in the Year B Common Lectionary. After all, this is known as “Low Sunday” in a lot of places, not least because whereas the church had […]
Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24
Easter Sunday
[…] even so cast aside, rejected, spurned, killed? Doesn’t that spurned stone that becomes highly important after all remind you of Someone? Isn’t this what the victory of Easter is all about in the first place? Apparently so. And while we are at it, we can notice the further irony that Psalm 118 as a […]
Psalm 150
Easter 2C
Well, Easter is over. The long build up of Lent is a distant memory. The blast of the trumpets, the glad songs of the thronging worshipers, and the scent of the lilies have all faded away. Easter is over. Sigh! Not so fast, says the Revised Common Lectionary. Let’s keep our focus on Easter […]
Luke 24:36-48
Easter 3B
The end of Luke’s Gospel sums it all up pretty well. In swift strokes of Luke’s quill, we move from Easter Sunday evening directly to the Ascension of Jesus (just beyond the bounds of this lection). We learn from Luke’s other New Testament contribution, Acts, that Jesus lingered in physical form for a good […]
1 Corinthians 15:1-10
Easter 1B
Comments and Observations I’ve always thought that Easter is one of the toughest preaching dates on the calendar. That’s counter-intuitive, I know, since the resurrection of Christ is arguably the most exciting event in the drama of salvation. The problem is that everyone already knows the story backwards and forwards. Even little children know […]
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