Easter Sunday (Year 3, NL)
22 results found.
An unimaginable outcome (Isaiah 65:17-25; Luke 24:1-12)
The disciples can barely believe that Jesus is dead, let alone that he has been raised to life once more.
April 20, Easter 1C (Isaiah 65:17-25; Luke 24:1-12)
As the women prepared the oil and spices, I think they must have told stories.
James Quentin's Scroll Cross, From His Side, and Black Forest Cross (clockwise from left to right)
When and where did the resurrected Jesus first appear?
The Bible offers conflicting answers.
April 12, Easter Day (Acts 10:34–43; Psalm 118:1–2, 14–24; Matthew 28:1–10)
What kind of faith gets you through 25 years in a refugee camp?
April 21, Resurrection of the Lord (Luke 24:1-12)
The resurrection is an old, old message. But I need to be reminded.
Get Jesus out of the tomb
Each year when I sit down to write my Easter sermon, I remember Doris Olson. Doris was a pillar of the church, and when I arrived as the new pastor, she came to my office and told me a story.
March 27, Easter Sunday: 1 Corinthians 15:19-26; Luke 24:1-12
Luke grounds the resurrection narrative in tangible details: the rock-hewn tomb, the linen cloth, the heavy stone, the fragrant spices. The reader can imagine the place and time. Then things fall off the map.
Unnoticed stones
When she knew she was dying, my grandmother took me to see the cornerstone of a small brick church in my hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. I didn’t recognize the sign outside. It was a Baptist church, I think. It was pretty rundown, but still in better shape than the neighborhood. Overgrown vacant lots were everywhere; it was like visiting an abandoned church in the jungle.
Sunday, April 20, 2014 (Easter Sunday): Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24; Colossians 3:1-4
This Colossians reading is one of those distilled, cryptic passages that draws us into so much more than we can imagine. Such verses expand our capacity to wonder and give praise. They invite us into God’s mystery.
by David Keck
And Jesus sang
After Jesus shared his last supper with his friends, they sang a hymn together. There is every reason to believe it was the Hallel, Psalms 113 through 118. How have I missed this before?
Now can we sing?
We Christians believe that we have a moral obligation to point to the pain that the rest of the world can’t see. Others may stroll past the suffering, but we stop and stare, take up an offering, make an appeal and collect blankets, sighing as we do our bit to alleviate some of the misery. That life may not actually be rotten in our part of the world today only increases our guilt for our occasional lapses into joy. How dare we sing when others are sufffering?