Walking the Way of Peace
April 14, 2024
Church of the Servant
3rd Sunday of Easter - Year B
Luke 24:36b-48, Acts 3:12-19
Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon
(The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)
Source: Luke Timothy Johnson, The Acts of the Apostles, Sacra Pagina Vol. 5, Daniel Harrington, ed., The Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN (1992), p. 69.
Minds Wide Open
April 18, 2021
Church of the Servant, Wilmington, NC
3rd Sunday of Easter
Luke 24:36b-48
Heart and Mind Transformed
April 15, 2018
Church of the Servant, Wilmington, NC
3rd Sunday of Easter
Luke 24:36b-48; Acts 3:12-19
Listen here:
Gospel Text:
Jesus himself stood among the disciples and said to them, “Peace be with you.” They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost. He said to them, “Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see; for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate in their presence.
Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.
The Imprint of Christ
April 26, 2015
Christ Church Episcopal, Norcross, GA
The 3rd Sunday of Easter
Acts 3:12-19; 1 John 3:1-7; Luke 24:36b-48
(Gospel text is provided at the bottom of this post)
How many of you like commercials?
If you watch TV, listen to the radio, read the paper or surf the web, you are constantly being bombarded by messages telling you about things you need, things you should want, and things you can’t live without. It’s not uncommon to see the same ad over and over again during the same one-hour program, right. This is very intentional by marketers. Communication experts say that you have to communicate your message at least 7 times for people to hear it, and probably dealing with some, it’s more like 70 times 7!
If we apply this to our church context, this concept of repetition is substantiated by our use of the Lectionary. Over a three year period we hear different combinations of Old and New Testament readings, including a significant portion of all four Gospels. Then, after three years, we start over again. So, if you’ve been in the Episcopal Church, or a denomination that follows the common lectionary, it would take 21 years to hear each of these texts 7 times – and that’s if you attend every single Sunday!
But, don’t lose faith! The good news is that because of common themes, it can take much less than 21 years to get the gist of Jesus’ message– to have a sense of Jesus’ call for repentance, of God’s gift of forgiveness, the importance of servant-hood, and the command to love God and show compassion to all people. So, sign up today! Don’t delay! There’s still time!
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