Sermons on Easter

Seventh Sunday of Easter June 2, 2019 Acts 16:16-34 With Paul and Silas, we came to Philippi in Macedonia, a Roman colony, and, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling. While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, “These men are slaves of the…

Sixth Sunday of Easter May 26, 2019 Sermon Text: John 5.1-9 After Jesus healed the son of the official in Capernaum, there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. In these lay many invalids– blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who…

Fifth Sunday of Easter May 19, 2019 On the Occasion of First Communion for Holly and Mia I, like Holly and Mia, received my Holy Communion at a First Communion Service at a church called Church of the Epiphany in Providence, Rhode Island. It was the tradition at my church that you waited to receive communion until you were prepared at the age of 7 or 8.  Back then,…

One of the Flock Fourth Sunday of Easter Preached at St. Gabriel’s, Marion, Massachusetts May 12, 2019 My cousin Nanne is a sheep farmer in Washington, Maine.  She is amazing.  She is a few years older than I am and she was the kind of cousin I was in awe of as a child – she was a killer field hockey player, my parents adored her, and she walked barefoot…

The Conversion of Paul and the Feeding of Sheep Third Sunday after Easter  May 5, 2019 Preaching Text: Acts 9:1-20, John 21.1-19 I hope you have had a good week.  I have had a great week.  A week filled with new learnings, understandings and questions. As some of you know I was at…

Doubting Thomas Second Sunday of Easter April 28, 2019 John 20:19-31 Doubting Thomas is arguably the patron saint of modern belief.  I am amazed that he was brave enough to stand up to all those other disciples who said they had seen the Lord and that he said he was not going to believe in the Resurrected Jesus until he saw Jesus and his wounds with his own eyes and…

Jesus on the Surface of it was a big failure Easter Sunday April 20, 2019 There was a New Yorker cartoon published some time ago that showed two very bored and fed-up looking Roman soldiers standing guard outside Jesus’ tomb. And one of them says to the other, “I don’t know what all the fuss is about, in a year’s time no one will remember his name.” And in one respect…

The Ethiopian Eunuch and Grace The Fifth Sunday of Easter April 29, 2018  As they were going along the road, they came to some water; and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water! What is to prevent me from being baptized?” Acts 8 One of the things that we like to play at our house is Table Topics –…

The Good Flock The Fourth Sunday of Easter April 22, 2018 Texts: The Epistle 1 John 3:16-24 We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us– and we ought to lay down our lives for one another. How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? Little children, let us love, not…

Easter Day – April 1, 2018 John 20:1-18 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have…