Tag: resurrection
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Notes on John 21 1-14
Notes and one perspective on John 21:1-14, the Uniform Series Sunday school text for April 8, 2018
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Easter Sunday
The sun tried to come out here for a minute or so right around the middle of the day, but mostly it’s been gray, cloudy, and chilly. Hardly surprising for early April, but not the photogenic Easter sunshine of popular imagination. I am OK with this. It’s easy to love a day of brilliant sunshine,…
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Questions for Reflection and Discussion (Luke 24 1-35)
The Uniform Series text for Sunday, April 1 is Luke 24:1-12 and 30-35, which is Luke’s account of the discovery of the empty tomb, and the conclusion of the narrative of the “walk to Emmaus.” These are some questions that we might want to consider in class …
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Fifth Sunday in Lent
We spent some time in Sunday school this morning considering the meaning of worship for us in connection with the text of 2 Chronicles 7. We thought some about the meaning of numbers, specifically the extravagantly large numbers of sacrifices in 2 Chronicles 7, wondering whether what we were supposed to think in our own…
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Questions for Reflection and Discussion (Acts 9 36-43)
The text we’re studying* for Sunday, February 18 is Acts 9:36-43. Here are a few questions that might be worth reflecting on and discussing in class: Why do the disciples in Joppa send for Peter? Why do we think that – from something in the text (what?), from something in our experience, from other readings…
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Christian Doctrine (14)
These are my summary notes on Chapter 14 of Christian Doctrine1 “Who’s in Charge Here? The Doctrine of the Resurrection”: Christians celebrate Easter as the victory of God and good over the powers of death and evil. But in the world we see around us, the powers of death and evil are visible everywhere. [Guthrie’s…
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Easter Sunday
[A sermon on one of the Uniform Series texts for today, Sunday, April 16: John 20:1-10.] The church’s Easter greeting, for centuries, has gone like this: one says “Christ is risen!” – in whatever language – and the other responds “He is risen indeed!” We have been saying this for centuries, maybe almost since the…
Matters of Interpretation 