Tag: John 20:19-31
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It’s Easter, Make A Little Effort.
Last Sunday, Easter Sunday, I said that when the stone was rolled away from the tomb the door to our future was opened to us. The obvious thing to do when someone opens the door for you is to say thank you and walk through. It may be obvious but that doesn’t necessarily make it Read more
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What Is Your Easter Story? – A Sermon On Luke 24:36-48
If I were to ask you to tell the Easter story you could do that, right? I suspect we can all tell that story. We may not be able to describe the details and nuances of each gospel but we can outline the basics of the story. For most of us that’s the basic Easter Read more
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Eclipse Sunday – A Sermon On John 20:19-31
It’s been one week since Easter Sunday; one week since the women found that the very large stone that had covered Jesus’ tomb had been rolled back; one week since they discovered the tomb was empty; one week since they heard the news, “He has been raised; he is not here”; and one week since Read more
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Easter Unlocked And Opened – A Sermon On John 20:19-31
The Second Sunday of Easter – John 20:19-31 Every year I come to this day – the Second Sunday of Easter – and I wonder what difference last Sunday – Easter Sunday – has made. Are our lives and world different because of Easter and, if so, how and in what ways? Look around. What Read more
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The Impossible Made Real – A Sermon On John 20:19-31
I suspect we all live with our own version of what is and what isn’t possible. And most of the time we live our life based on what we consider to be possible. We consider the range of possibilities and then we make a decision, choose a direction for our life, take our next step,… Read more
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Get Out Of The House! – A Sermon on John 20:19-31
I wonder, one week after Easter, what has Christ’s resurrection done for us? Is your life different? Do you see and engage the world in new ways? What difference has the empty tomb made in your life over the last week? When I look at my life it looks a whole like it did last… Read more
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Struggling to Believe the Resurrection, John 20:19-31
“Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.” That one sentence has left Thomas forever labeled Doubting Thomas. That’s the Thomas with whom we are most familiar. Maybe, however, there’s another side Read more
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Seen and Touched – A Sermon on John 20:19-31 for the Second Sunday of Easter
The collect and readings for the Second Sunday of Easter may be found here. The following sermon is based on John 20:19-31. I’m not exactly sure why, because I usually say no, but yesterday I agreed to participate in a telephone survey about politics. In response to one of the demographics questions I said that Read more
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Unlocking Doors – A Sermon on John 20:19-31, Easter 2
The collect and readings for the Second Sunday of Easter may be found here. The appointed gospel is John 20:19-31. When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood Read more
Interrupting the Silence 