The Life of FaithEaster 7A | John 17:1-11 One of the strange delights of the lectionary is spending half of the Easter season, not in the resurrection stories, but in John’s Farewell Discourse. At first glance, this seems really wrong. We aren’t just going back in time, but going back …
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A Word: Our Work is Relationship
The Love Command in ActionEaster 6A | John 14:15-21 We get philosophical Jesus this morning, don’t we? Here he is, describing the Advocate and the Trinitarian nature of God. It is all very heady, in that way. And for a lot of people, this is incredibly instructive because they want to …
A Word: A Resurrection Revelation
New Life and the Grace of GodEaster | John 20:1-18 Halleluiah! He is risen! We say it that way: he is risen. And many of us respond naturally, The Lord is risen indeed. Hallelujah! We’ve been trained. But the words, he is risen denote that Jesus is the object, the beneficiary of …
