Tag: Eastering
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What’s The Story Of Your Easter? – A Sermon On John 21:1-19
I want to begin by asking a couple of questions about the Easter story. Here’s my first question. It’s pretty simple. If I asked you tell the Easter story, what would you say? How would you tell it? Most of us, I suspect, would talk about Jesus and his death and resurrection. We might offer Read more
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Stop Believing In Easter And Start Eastering – An Easter Sermon On Luke 24:1-12
Alleluia. Christ is risen. The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia. Do you really believe that? Who believes today’s gospel (Luke 24:1-12) is true? So let me ask you this, what makes this story true? I don’t think it’s true because the women “found the stone rolled away from the tomb.” And I don’t think it’s Read more
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The Two Questions Of Easter – An Easter Sermon On Mark 16:1-8
Easter is not just something from the past to be looked at and celebrated. It is the lens through which we are to see everything. It’s a life to be lived. Getting Jesus out of the tomb is not the ultimate goal of Easter. Easter is about our new life. That means that today is… Read more
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Easter: A Noun or a Verb?
“Let him easter in us….” That is one of the last lines (line 277) in the poem “The Wreck of the Deutschland” by Gerald Manley Hopkins (July 28, 1844 – June 8, 1889), an English Jesuit priest and poet. Hopkins is writing about a steamship, The Deutschland, that ran aground about twenty-five miles off the Read more
Interrupting the Silence 