From the Power of Darkness
April 13, 2025
Palm & Passion Sunday – Year C
Luke 22:14-23:56
Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon
(The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)
Sources:
1 Whitaker, Robyn. 2017, “A Failed Spectacle: The Role of the Crowd in Luke 23.” Biblical
Interpretation 25 (3):399-416. Doi:10.1163/15685152-00253P06. p. 399, 404.
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.
Enough
March 25, 2018
Church of the Servant, Wilmington, NC
Palm & Passion Sunday
Mark 14:1-15:47
Listen here:
The entire passion story was read using the dramatic reading of Mark’s Gospel found at this link: Lectionary Page
Both Shepherd and Lamb
April 18, 2014
Christ Church Episcopal, Norcross, GA
Good Friday, April 18, 2014 – Year A
Isaiah 52:13-53:12, Hebrews 10:16-25, John 18:1-19:42
If you were here this past Sunday, you heard me explain that these narratives about Jesus’ death are called “The Passion” because the Latin root of the word is passio, which means suffering.
Throughout the Passion narrative from Matthew read on Sunday, we got a sense of the suffering Jesus endured, yet today’s account from John is quite different. In John’s gospel Jesus is the one directing the course of action, from beginning to end, and this is reflected in the Passion story, as well.
In today’s reading, after Judas brought the soldiers and temple police into the garden where Jesus was, instead of Judas kissing Jesus on the cheek, as told in Matthew’s version, here we have Jesus stepping forward on his own. He asks the soldiers who is it they seek, and when they say “Jesus of Nazareth” Jesus responds, without hesitation, “I am he.” Read the rest of this entry »
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