No Idle Tale (An Easter Sermon)
My sermon for Easter Sunday, 2022
My dog just died. Will I ever see him again?
Our family dog, Boots, died a few days ago. He was a good dog, a giant, slobbering, super-friendly, food-stealing behemoth. When we first saw him he was with a litter of pups in the back of a steel trailer on a farm in Texas. He was lying in the food dish, on top of the…
The Resurrection: What is it? What does it mean? Why does it matter?
Easter is less than a week away, and in this new podcast, Scott, Maggie, and I talk about what it means to say that Christ is risen. We also get into what it means to talk about our own resurrection. After all, that is the Christian hope: the resurrection of the body, as part of…
The Resurrection of Jesus: Story… or True Story?
Years ago, as part of my process for ordination, I was being interviewed by a committee. My interlocutors and I were talking about the resurrection of Jesus. One of them asked me, “How do you see resurrections in your own life?” It wasn’t a bad question, and I know the person who asked it meant…
If Christ is not raised…
Your faith is futile, and you are still in your sins. This is what Paul teaches us in 1 Corinthians 15:17. Our entire salvation depends upon the resurrection of Christ. As we enter into Holy Week, there will be a number of posts in social media about how the resurrection of Christ is a metaphor…
“I believe in the resurrection of the body….”
When I was interviewing with the Board of Ordained Ministry to be commissioned as an elder, one member of the committee asked me about the resurrection of Jesus. She asked, “How do you see resurrections in your own life?” I’ve long reflected on that question because the way in which we answer it has implications…