Maundy Thursday and Easter sermons

Maundy Thursday: "The Hospitality of God"
Reading: Mark 14:12-31
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Preached on April 5, 2012 at PLWC.

Easter: "Useless Preachers and Lying Witnesses"

Reading: Matthew 28:1-10, 16-20; 1 Corinthians 15:1-26
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Preached on April 8, 2012 at PLWC.

Holy Week Sermons: "How Did We Come to This?" and "There is Joy Here"

I preached two sermons last week, since we had the privilege of hosting the churches of the ecumenical council for this year's Good Friday service. The first is, of course, the Good Friday sermon, followed by our Easter sermon.

"How Did We Come to This?"

Preached on Friday, April 22 at the Ecumenical Good Friday service at PLWC.

Reading: John 18-19

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"There is Joy Here"

Preached on Sunday, April 24 at PWLC.

Reading: Luke 24:1-35

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Come Awake

Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:12-20; John 20:1-22

We had a great Easter at Pocono Lake Wesleyan; I hope you did, too.  For our worship this year we explored the question of whether humans are meant to slowly decline, year after year, into death, or whether we are meant to become more and more alive and awake as we grow older.

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Preached on April 4, 2010 at PLWC.

Holy Week Sermons: "The Hospitality of God" and "On The Move"

Last week being Holy Week, things ran a little differently than normal for us. We held a Maundy Thursday communion service this year in place of our normal midweek prayer meeting, so the first sermon below was written for that service. The second sermon below was our Easter Sunday sermon, dealing with the apparently open-ended way Mark ends his account of the resurrection.

"The Hospitality of God"
Reading: Mark 14:12-31
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Preached on April 9, 2009 (Maundy Thursday) at PLWC.

"On The Move"
Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; Mark 16:1-8
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Preached on April 12, 2009 (Easter Sunday) at PLWC.

When the Ground Shakes

Preached on March 23, 2008 at PLWC.

Reading: Psalm 18:1-20, 46; Matthew 27:62-28:10

This last Sunday was, of course, Easter, and so this year I started from that curious order Pilate gave the guards for the tomb: "Make it as secure as you know how." Just how secure can we be in the face of something like an emptying tomb?

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