Texts: Acts 2:14a, 36-41 + Ps. 116:1-4, 12-19 + 1 Pet. 1:17-23 + Luke 24:13-35 There’s a weekly conversation that happens online, on Twitter in fact (if you can believe it), which those who take part in call #SlateSpeak. It happens on Thursday nights at 8pm Central Time, lasts exactly an hour, and those who … Continue reading Sermon: Sunday, April 30, 2017: Third Sunday of Easter
Author: Erik Christensen
Sermon: Sunday, April 23, 2017: Second Sunday of Easter
In Jesus’ life, Thomas had seen what it might mean for him to be truly alive. Having experienced that, the thought of going back to any other way of living was no life at all.
Sermon: Sunday, April 16, 2017: Resurrection of Our Lord, Easter Day
The resurrection is the power of God breaking through the sediment of history, our personal stories and our shared story, to insist that we do not know enough to say what is possible and what is impossible. The resurrection is the earthquake that topples the things we imagine are fixed and unchanging and unearths the dreams we had left for dead. The resurrection is the rallying cry of the generations that came before us, that could never have imagined the lives we are leading, calling out to us, “who are you to give up on the future, when you have already seen what God can do? What God has done!”


