resurrection stories
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Finding Grounded
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7 min read
The pandemic disrupts our sense of normal. Jesus invites us to join in the transformation because normal isn’t the point.
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A Paranormal Resurrection
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2 min read
For SundayEaster 3B Collect O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in all his redeeming work; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.…
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Definitely, Peter
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8 min read
What Jesus told them to do was follow him. Instead, 7 disciples went to the beach.
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Being Present
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7 min read
While Easter stories rely on the absence of Jesus in the empty tomb, they also establish the presence of Jesus with the apostles to be the presence of Christ for each other. Easter and the returning presence of Jesus Easter 3B | Luke 24:36b-48 When someone tells me they like the prequels to Star Wars,…
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The Tale of Two Easters
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In our readings from Acts and John, we get two very different stories of the apostles responding to the risen Christ. But they both actually point to the same teaching. Luke and John reveal a false choiceEaster 2B | Acts 4:32-35, John 20:19-31 In Holy Week, we traced the last week of Jesus with the…
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We are Witnesses
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7 min read
From the tomb to our lives Easter 3B | Luke 24:36b-48 The Physical Resurrection This moment we receive here in this third Sunday of Easter is another gospel treatment of the resurrection. At the vigil, we had Mark’s empty tomb, then on Sunday we had John’s empty tomb. Last week we had Jesus’s appearance to…