This sermon, for the Second Week of Easter, is based on the Revised Common Lectionary gospel text: John 20: 19-31. Spend time with the questions, alongside Thomas the Twin (aka, the Doubting Thomas).
Other texts for this Sunday’s lectionary include: Acts 4: 32-35; Psalm 133; and 1 John 1: 1-2. For the full lectionary texts, click
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“Be patient with all that is unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves. Do not seek answers which cannot be given to you now because you would not be able to live them now. And the point is to live everything, live the question now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” (Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke)
This sermon, for the Fourth Week of Easter, is based on the Revised Common Lectionary gospel text: John 10: 11-18. Jesus said "I am the Good Shepherd," but what is a good shepherd, really?Other texts for this Sunday’s lectionary include: Acts 4: 5-12; Psalm 23; 1 John 3: 16-24. For the full lectionary texts, click here.
This sermon, for the Third Week of Easter, is based on the Revised Common Lectionary gospel text: Luke 24: 36b-48. Like the disciples, we are witnesses to the Risen Lord! But what does it mean to witness to the resurrection?Other texts for this Sunday’s lectionary include: Acts 3: 12-19; Psalm 4; and 1 John 3: 1-7. For the full lectionary texts, click here.