1 Corinthians 15:19-26
Easter Sunday
[…] Observations, and Questions Death stinks – both literally and figuratively. While such a reminder may not seem like a particularly popular (or common) way to begin an Easter proclamation, it is the context within which we begin any and every proclamation of Easter’s great news. Even after Jesus rose from the dead, death still […]
Isaiah 25:6-9
Easter Day B
Easter Sunday may not seem like an ideal time to compare God’s kingdom to Isaiah 25’s lavish feast. After all, many of those who proclaim and hear the Old Testament lesson the Lectionary appoints for this Sunday will spend at least some of Easter preparing, eating and cleaning up food. Yet nearly every […]
Colossians 3:1-4
Easter Day A
This Sunday’s Epistolary Lesson challenges and stretches Christians’ understanding of Easter’s ongoing importance. Christians profess that approximately two thousand years ago, God the Father didn’t let God the Son stay dead. God raised Jesus from the dead (1). Jesus’ friends also understand at least some of the future implications of Jesus’ resurrection. Because God […]
Psalm 97
Easter 7C
[…] of power politics, so do we. Further, this Psalm helps us see the earth-shaking importance of Christ’s Ascension, which we celebrate on this seventh Sunday of the Easter season. As Easter fades into the distance and Pentecost rustles just around the corner, we need to be reminded that the ascension of Christ was as […]
Mark 16:1-8
Easter Day B
[…] why end the gospel in that silence? Maybe it fits a larger theme Mark is working on. One of the most striking features of Mark’s telling of Easter is how it is framed by motion. The women begin in verses 1-4 moving toward the tomb, and they end in verse 8 moving rapidly away […]
Acts 16:9-15
Easter 6C
[…] Lydia’s threshold as well? After all, she’s a gentile. She’s a woman. She’s rich. Yet Lydia “persuades” us. We accept her hospitality. Lydia’s hospitality reminds Christians that Easter doesn’t just signal our dead bodies’ coming resurrection in preparation for life in the new earth and heaven. Easter also signals the resurrection that already occurs […]
1 John 3:1-7
Easter 3B
[…] like him….” We should do right because God’s love in Christ has made us God’s children. A sermon that is true to this text will be an Easter sermon filled with the good news of new life in Christ. That’s where those 50 young girls come in. When I preached on this text, I […]
Revelation 7:9-17
Easter 4C
[…] as any human being has ever experienced. We just cannot overstate the promise of a chapter like Revelation 7. To preach on this a few weeks after Easter as the Year C Lectionary has us do gives us a chance to reach out to those who perhaps felt a bit out of sync with […]
Colossians 3:1-4
Easter Day A
[…] children celebrate today changes everything, including the objects of our love and focus of our attention. In fact, as preachers might grab hearers’ attention by opening an Easter message on Colossians 3 with, when Jesus walked out of the tomb, his friends walked out with him. Paul implies that in a real sense, when […]
Acts 10:34-43
Easter Day A
[…] the whole forty days he hung around on earth prior to returning to his Father in the Ascension. And even those few who did see him post- Easter apparently had very little to share about those forty days since the Gospels—and the very first few verses of Acts—are all-but mum on any events during […]
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