“Resurrection People” Series

The week leading up to Easter I did a series of daily quotes on the topic of Resurrection.  Here’s all the links in one convenient spot if you’re interested. Day 1- Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8/1

Resurrection People…Day 8 and 1

“Resurrection is a Person” Your brother will rise again, Jesus told her. Martha said, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live. Everyone who lives and [...]

Resurrection People- Day 7

“New Week, New World” “The resurrection of Jesus takes place, [John] is careful to tell us twice, ‘on the first day of the week’, and I believe this is best interpreted as the start of God’s new creation.  On the Friday, the sixth day of the week, Jesus stands before Pilate, who declares ‘behold, the [...]

Resurrection People- Day 6

“The Temple of Life” “Indeed, it would seem that he who disbelieves this bodily rising of the Lord is ignorant of the power of the Word and Wisdom of God.  If He took a body to Himself at all, and made it His own in pursuance of His purpose, as we have shown that He [...]

Resurrection People- Day 5

“Resurrection and Re-Creation” “The picture is not what we expected–though whether it is less or more probable and philosophical on that account is another question.  It is not the picture of an escape from any and every kind of Nature into some unconditioned and utterly transcendent life.  It is the picture of a new human [...]

Resurrection People- Day 4

“Resurrection and the Church” “If we leave him in the tomb we can systematize his teaching and sanitize his actions.  We can manage the church and keep things in order.  If we leave him in the tomb, then Christianity belongs to us to make of it what we will, to reform it in our image [...]

Resurrection People- Day 3

“Resurrection and Reality” “For the earliest Christians, to speak of Jesus’ resurrection was to speak of something that, however (in our sense) earth-shattering, however much it drew together things earthly and heavenly, was still an “earthly” event, and needed to be exactly that.  It had earthy consequences: an empty tomb, footprints by the shore, and [...]

Resurrection People- Day 2

“Resurrection and Hope” “Every year at Easter I get to preach on the Resurrection.  In my sermon I always say to my skeptical, secular friends that, even if they can’t believe in the resurrection, they should want it to be true.  Most of them care deeply about justice for the poor, alleviating hunger and disease, [...]

Resurrection People- Day 1

“United in Resurrection…” “Some things that should have happened to us, like death and punishment, happened instead to Jesus.  God considers us as if we really had experienced what Jesus experienced on the cross.  Conversely, there are things that happened to him that we did not deserve–like resurrection and receiving the approval of God.  Thanks [...]

Resurrection People (A Series)

This next week before Easter, starting Sunday,  I’m leaving a quote each day dealing with the Resurrection.  I hope you’ll take the chance to read them and think about what it is we are to celebrate on Sunday, April 4. (I know that traditionally the focus this last week is on the cross and sufferings [...]