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11 mins read|04/20/20
Gospel: Luke 24:13-35 (Easter 3: Series A)
Their hearts burned, their feet ran, and their mouths opened. “The Lord is risen, indeed!” they confessed, because this is what Easter does: It makes confessors. -
10 mins read|04/26/19
Living on Resurrection Time
Christ triumphantly brings about a new day, an eighth day, the first day of a new week. -
9 mins read|04/14/19
Gospel: Luke 24:1-12 (Easter Sunday: Series C)
In Luke 24:1-12 we don’t get a carefully constructed theology of the resurrection. The evangelist doesn’t work out all the implications of Easter for our life and faith. He doesn’t offer a logical argument for why we should believe Jesus rose physically from the dead. Instead, he simply describes what happened. -
12 mins read|04/11/19
Church Membership and the Gospel
Being a member of a church connects people to the whole reason the church has for existing: that we might obtain justifying faith in Jesus Christ through Word and Sacrament. -
9 mins read|07/09/18
On the Weekly Road to Emmaus
It can be argued that this scene sets a pattern for Christian activity on the first day of the week from that time until the present. -
18 mins read|01/19/15
Losing that Holy Feeling
It’s like I’m eavesdropping on the two friends and the stranger who walks with them. Something about the way they hang their heads, something about the desperation in their voices, and certainly something about the stranger, has me grasping hold of every word as if gold is spilling from their lips.
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