Second Sunday of Easter, Year A1 Peter 1:3-9; John 20:19-31May 1, 2011 Christ is risen. Alleluia! Christ is risen indeed. Alleluia! Grace to you and peace, from the one who is, who was, and who is to come. Amen. Resurrection. It’s not just last Sunday’s news. And it’s not just something that happensContinue reading “Resurrection: It’s Not Just For Jesus”
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Promises of Life on the Eve of Death
Before the horror of Friday and the glory of Sunday, we have this night, on which words of promise are spoken. A prelude of promise prior to the pain of death.
“Lord, if you had been here …”
The problem with suffering is that it defies all what we think we know about God – that God has the power to heal, and that God is all-loving. We experience God’s love at times, and God’s power at other times. But there are plenty of times when we don’t feel either. No power. No love. Just absence.
Belonging
If worship is an experience in belonging, then the Samaritan woman’s question about where to worship is ultimately a question about who belongs to who, and about the God to whom we belong.
Our temptation: to trust sin more than we trust God
Let our focus this Lent be not on our sin but on God’s love, not on our death but on the life God promises to us, and to all people. For sin and death, and our preoccupation with both, pale in comparison to God’s promises of life and love for all.
The Lutheran Zephyr 