Our Cross? Correcting the Story
April 15, 2022
Church of the Servant
Good Friday John 18:1-19:42 Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon
Source: Amanda Gorman, “Vale of the Shadow of Death or Extra! Extra! Read all about it!”, Poems: Call Us What We Carry, Viking Publisher, (New York, 2021), p. 81-85.
Sent to Serve
April 14, 2022
Church of the Servant
Maundy Thursday Exodus 12:1-4, 11-14; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26; John 13:1-17, 31b-35 & Luke 22:14-20 Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon
Setting Our Face Toward…
April 10, 2022
Church of the Servant
Fourth Sunday in Lent Luke 19:28-40, Luke 9:51 Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon
Sources: Ketanji Brown Jackson, Speech on April 8, 2022, after Confirmation as a Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Charles M. Blow, Cory Booker, ‘You had our Back’, Opinion, New York Times, April 8, 2022, Accessed April 9, 2022: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/08/opinion/cory-booker-ketanji-brown-jackson.html
A Day of Mourning
April 11, 2020
Holy Saturday
For the disciples, today was a day of mourning. A day of confusion. A day of bewilderment.
Each scattered and apart from one another. Each, perhaps, reflecting on the meal they had with Jesus just a couple of days earlier. Trying to remember what he said.
Did he say “Take this in remembrance of me”? It seemed odd at the time. A bit dramatic. But now? No. Now, I understand. Now, it makes sense.
He must have realized that his message of love was too radical for the religious authorities to abide. His willingness to eat with those on the margins, to have compassion and care for the outsider, his example, even command, to tear down boundaries that divide people, revealing God’s love and grace comes in many forms and expressions. That “love your neighbor” isn’t only for those who look like us, believe like us, love like us. “Neighbor” is everyone, even our adversaries. Well, that was just too radical.
I can’t believe he’s really gone. My teacher. My friend.
He said “remember me.”
By tomorrow many of the disciples will have made their way back to one another, but today, they are scattered. Today, they each begin to navigate the journey of grief. There’s no hope of resurrection in their minds; in their hearts. Only loss.
We know and anticipate the rest of the story. But today…
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