Lessons: Acts 8:26-40 1 John 4:7-21 John 15:1-8 Psalm 22:24-30
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Second Sunday of Easter by Robb Beck
Lessons: Acts 4:32-35 1 John 1:1-2:2 John 20:19-31 Psalm 133
Easter Vigil by The Rev. Corbet Clark
Lessons: Genesis 1:1-2:4a [The Story of Creation] Genesis 7:1-5, 11-18, 8:6-18, 9:8-13 [The Flood] Genesis 22:1-18 [Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac] Exodus 14:10-31; 15:20-21 [Israel’s deliverance at the Red Sea] Isaiah 55:1-11 [Salvation offered freely to all] Baruch 3:9-15, 3:32-4:4 or Proverbs 8:1-8, 19-21; 9:4b-6 [Learn wisdom and live] Ezekiel 36:24-28 [A new heart and a new spirit]Continue reading “Easter Vigil by The Rev. Corbet Clark”
Seventh Sunday of Easter by The Rev. Corbet Clark
Lessons: Acts 16:16-34 Revelation 22:12-14,16-17,20-21 John 17:20-26 Psalm 97
Sixth Sunday of Easter by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Acts 16:9-15 Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5 John 14:23-29 Psalm 67 A couple of years back, the author Douglas Abrams traveled to India to record a conversation between the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu. The resulting text is called The Book of Joy, and it is an account not just of the week that these twoContinue reading “Sixth Sunday of Easter by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
The Fifth Sunday of Easter by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Acts 11:1-18 Revelation 21:1-6 John 13:31-35 Psalm 148 For the past several weeks, the lectionary – the schedule of readings that we follow across the year – has told us stories of resurrection. Beginning today, it returns us to the time before Jesus’ death: to the upper room, to the Last Supper, toContinue reading “The Fifth Sunday of Easter by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Fourth Sunday of Easter by The Rev. Robert J. Deshaies
Lessons: Acts 9:36-43 Revelation 7:9-17 John 10:22-30 Psalm 23
Third Sunday of Easter by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Acts 9:1-6, (7-20) Revelation 5:11-14 John 21:1-19 Psalm 30 The encounter or the experience that we call conversion is about seeing and being seen. It is about being named. First, seeing and being seen. My vision fell off a cliff around the time that I turned 12. This is not a metaphor. In whatContinue reading “Third Sunday of Easter by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Second Sunday of Easter by Holly Puckett
Lessons: Acts 5:27-32 Revelation 1:4-8 John 20:19-31 Psalm 118:14-29 Stories, we learned in our early school days in English lessons, are made up of a plot line that has three main parts. A beginning, a middle, and an end. Beginning. Middle. End. That’s a story. Maybe sermons are the same way, but I am goingContinue reading “Second Sunday of Easter by Holly Puckett”
Easter Sunday by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Acts 10:34-43 1 Corinthians 15:19-26 Luke 24:1-12 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 We live in the time after the resurrection. And given that, here is the question with which we are confronted. Given the staggering mystery of the empty tomb, what should we do? How should we live? What does resurrection mean? These questions are asContinue reading “Easter Sunday by The Rev. Martin Elfert”