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Easter Sunday
April 5, 2015
Bond, L. Susan, "Scripture and Theology, Acts 10:34-43," Interpretation, 2002.
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“The radical edge of the gospel takes us beyond the coziness of Christian community and into a new eschatological hope. The evangelistic mandate to take this gospel into all the world (which is what Peter and Paul were about in the book of Acts) means we have to forsake religious privilege in order to envision a world where there are no clean or unclean, no insiders and no outsiders, and where we all gather to share the earth's bounty at a common table (Weiser, 88; J. D. Crossan, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography [San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1994] 69).”
Miller, Glenn T., "Isaiah 25:6-9, Between Text and Sermon," Interpretation, 1995.
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“Most of the time, like Babylon, we are content to be the children of pride. Yet, somewhere deep down—in those secrets of the heart that lie in the moments between sleep and wakefulness—we know that our decision to be both saved and savior will not work.”
Adams, Joanna M., "Good News Indeed," Journal for Preachers, 2004.
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"There is a sense in which the resurrection is entirely God's business.”
Bartlett, David, "The Easter Texts: Hope, Comfort, Courage," Journal for Preachers, 2006.
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“I have come to translate that into my own terms as a reminder that has helped me preach on more than one occasion: "When I am in doubt about what I believe, I preach what we believe." Not I, the preacher, but we, the church, the community of faith, the communion of saints. The gift of the texts assigned for Easter is that each of them, in quite different ways, helps us remember what we believe.”
Bolt, Peter G., "Mark 16:1-8: The Empty Tomb of a Hero?" Tyndale Bulletin, 1996.
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“This is no Hero's tomb; nor is it the tomb of some fortunate who has found a way around death for himself and himself alone. This tomb is that of the Son of Man, whose emptied tomb is pregnant with hope for the many.”
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