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The Day of Pentecost

This is the time of the movement of the Spirit from the head to the heart. Time to stand outside one’s self.

7th Sunday of Easter

Eternal life is to know God, and eternity is now.

The 6th Sunday of Easter

Pluralism lives in our pews and in our hearts. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of difference in this respect between the 1st century and the 21st century.

The Fourth Sunday of Easter

Jesus called himself the gate of the sheep, the passage into safety. But he gives us the freedom to go in and go out.

The Third Sunday of Easter

Were the disciples escaping to Emmaus perhaps to get Jesus out of their hearts?

Note: I am grateful to Gary W. Charles, Central Presbyterian Church, Atlanta Georgia and his sermon, “The E Prayer”, published in Journal for Preachers, Volume 24, Number 3, Easter, 2006, for portions of this sermon.

The apostle Thomas has given us much to think about. After demanding to put his hands in Jesus’ wounds, he found that proof was not necessary.

The great celebration of Easter

I am grateful to Bishop Will Willimon’s article, “Preaching Easter in Alabama”, and Barbara Brown Taylor’s article,  “Easter Sunday 2006” both appearing in the Journal For Preachers Volume XXXI, No. 3, Easter 2008; for portions of this sermon.

The Great Vigil of Easter has been called “the most moving worship experience of the Church.” With the proclamation of the resurrection of Christ, we are brought into the light!

Love overcomes evil by absorbing it, by loving it to death.

These thoughts and words are from “The Great Themes of Scripture” by Richard Rohr and Joseph Martos.

On this day the Lord shows us what it means to be completely human.