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Easter 2B Sermon Commentary

 

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John 20:19-31 Sermon Commentary

Easter 2B

Comments and Observations: Doubting Thomas.  Don’t you hate it when you make one mistake and it defines you from then on out?!  One little mistake and Thomas becomes a morality lesson, a byword, a counter-example of anything we’d ever want to be.  In truth, however, there is more than a little of Thomas in all…

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Psalm 133 Sermon Commentary

Easter 2B

Comments, Observations, and Questions to Consider Psalm 133 is a song that at first glance appears to applaud familial unity.  After all, it uses familial language when it speaks of the wonder and beauty of “brotherly” unity.  In fact, some scholars suggest this lends credence to the idea that families sang Psalm 133 on their…

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1 John 1:1-2:2 Sermon Commentary

Easter 2B

Comments and Observations All of the readings from the epistles for the season after Easter are from I John.  That’s an interesting choice, since the theme of I John is certainty, assurance of salvation.  “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know…

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Acts 4:32-35 Sermon Commentary

Easter 2B

Comments and Observations Acts 4 is enough to break your heart. Was it really true at the earliest stage of the Christian community that the believers were completely one in heart and mind?  Did they really share absolutely everything even as they fell adoringly and reverently at the feet of the apostles, hanging on their…

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