In these great fifty days after Easter, Jesus continues his resurrection tour. On tour, he has shown up multiple times with the disciples as he promised to do. We have seen him with the women at the tomb, in the upper room, on the road to Emmaus. In our gospel lesson this morning, we finish the reading from the last verses of…
“Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge’s name was good upon ‘Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.(1)” These words began Charles…
My dear friends. It is Easter morning. I am standing in a nearly empty church sharing a message about an empty tomb. This was not how I planned to proclaim Easter, and I know it was not how you planned to celebrate Easter, either. Empty is not the word we usually focus on at Easter! We use words like “risen” or “hallelujah”…
God’s dream for humanityDid you ever play the game who or what is missing? In elementary school, I can remember sitting around the circle with my class. One student would go into the hallway. While that student was in the hallway, the teacher would chose a student in the circle to “hide.” Maybe they would hide in the closet or the bathroom.…