An Episcopal Priest's Sermons, Prayers, and Reflections on Life, Becoming Human, and Discovering Our Divinity
The Second Sunday of Easter - John 20:19-31 By 22Kartika - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons Every year I come to this day - the Second Sunday of Easter - and I wonder what difference last Sunday -…
Read More Easter Unlocked And Opened – 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, all within the boundaries of what is possible. But what if the impossible can be made real? What if the impossible really does happen? What if the impossible is possible?
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 Sunday, the week before, and the week before that. And when I look at the world it looks pretty much the same as before.
"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…
Read More Struggling to Believe the Resurrection, John 20:19-31
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…
Read More 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 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…
Read More Unlocking Doors – A Sermon on John 20:19-31, Easter 2
Today, the Second Sunday in Easter, is often called Thomas Sunday. Mention the name Thomas and we tend to think of Doubting Thomas. Right or wrong Thomas has forever been labeled Doubting Thomas. "Unless I see the mark of the…
Interrupting the Silence 