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Sixth Sunday of Easter by The Rev. Martin Elfert

Lessons: Acts 17:22-31 1 Peter 3:13-22 John 14:15-21 Psalm 66:7-18 The late Jesuit theologian, Karl Rahner, struggled with a question that a lot of Christians have struggled with: what does God do with good and compassionate and decent people who don’t go to church? Are those folks rejected by God, will they be punished byContinueContinue reading “Sixth Sunday of Easter by The Rev. Martin Elfert”

Fifth Sunday of Easter by The Rev. Martin Elfert

Lessons: Acts 7:55-60 1 Peter 2:2-10 John 14:1-14 Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16 During a recent radio interview with Terry Gross, the standup comic Pete Holmes talked about his upbringing in a conservative Evangelical context and about what faith looks like for him today. The interview is frequently funny (I guess that’s what you would expect inContinueContinue reading “Fifth Sunday of Easter by The Rev. Martin Elfert”

Third Sunday of Easter by the Rev. Martin Elfert

Lessons: Acts 2:42-47 1 Peter 2:19-25 John 10:1-10 Psalm 23 Imagine. Imagine that you are on a road leading away from a city and toward a town. Here on the road you are in neither place, neither city nor town, neither where you came from nor where you are going. You are in between. TheContinueContinue reading “Third Sunday of Easter by the Rev. Martin Elfert”

Second Sunday of Easter by The Rev. Ken Powell

Lessons: Acts 2:14a,22-32 1 Peter 1:3-9 John 20:19-31 Psalm 16     In the name of the Risen Christ… Good morning friends and welcome on this day we properly call the Second Sunday of Easter rather than thinking of it as the first Sunday after Easter as some of us are inclined to do. TheyContinueContinue reading “Second Sunday of Easter by The Rev. Ken Powell”

Easter Sunday by The Rev. Martin Elfert

Lessons: Jeremiah 31:1-6 Acts 10:34-43 Matthew 28:1-10 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24   Five Meditations on Resurrection One I am visiting with a woman whose husband of almost fifty years died the summer before last. The woman was young when she and her husband met and married, she was only a handful of years into her twenties.ContinueContinue reading “Easter Sunday by The Rev. Martin Elfert”

Seventh Sunday of Easter by The Rev. Richard Toll

Lessons: Acts 16:16-34 Psalm 97 Revelation 22:12-14,16-17,20-21 John 17:20-26   From the reading today, from the Revelation of John, we hear the words “I am the Alpha and the Omega” the Beginning and the End. Love is the word that Jesus speaks to today from the Gospel of John.  He is telling us that theContinueContinue reading “Seventh Sunday of Easter by The Rev. Richard Toll”

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