Easter Posts
Jesus’ Life and Martin’s Death
A sermon about the convergence of Dr. King’s assassination and Jesus’ resurrection preached Easter Sunday,...
Jesus People
Texts: Isaiah 25: 6-9, Mark 16: 1-8
This sermon was originally preached Easter Sunday April 6,...
Jesus’ Life and Martin’s Death
This Easter Sunday marks the brightest dawn the world has ever known paired with the...
Riding Off Into the Sunrise
This sermon (or a reasonable facsimile) was preached on the Sunday after Easter, April 8,...
Into the Light
Luke 23.50 – 24.12
When my wife and I first got married, we spent more than...
Smells Like…Lent
The other night I was down in the basement mopping an area of the floor...
The Tomb is Still Empty
Worship services on the Sunday after Easter are typically the lowest attended of the year....
Easter Sermons
The Awe of Easter
Sermon for the season of Easter. A look at the Gospel of Mark's version of the Easter story in Mark 16:1-8. Mark renders Easter a mystery and confronts us with a resurrection story that reminds us that Easter is something beyond our comprehension.
https://youtu.be/NWGcZWhQGiM
Jesus’ Life and Martin’s Death
A sermon about the convergence of Dr. King’s assassination and Jesus’ resurrection preached Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021. The biblical text is Mark 16, a jarring revelation of the discovery of the empty tomb. The sermon examines ways in which Martin Luther King Jr.'s faith shaped his fight for...
Overturned and Turned Over
A look at the post-Easter narrative in Luke's gospel. Todd draws on his background as a Classicist to show how in Luke the birth, death, and resurrection Jesus does nothing less then inaugurate a new alternative kingdom that challenges the established order of the Roman empire and champions the...
