Sermons on Easter

The Gospe of Easter is not something to be handled haphazardly. It's the most important news one can ever receive. You and I need to be reminded frequently what it's all about. This sermon remembers the basics.

This sermon invites us to picture Easter as a gigantic joke, a joke played by God on the devil. While there are a lot of things in our world to be sad about, Easter proclaims that life is not ultimately a tragedy, but a comedy, a story whose ending comes out right.

A detailed portrait of Jesus as he entered Jerusalem on a donkey, this sermon tracks the path of events that led from Palm Sunday to Good Friday.

Do we have a TGI Friday attitude toward the cross? This Easter sermon challenges our cool detachment toward the cross: Keep it on the steeple. Put a bronze one on the altar. Hang one in the baptistry. At least let it get no closer than a nice piece of jewelry. But if we really undertand the cross, we know that it was our sin that put Jesus there.

The focal point of this message is the challenge to place or renew our faith in Jesus. When we do so, wel discover what it is to live life to the fullest. We discover that paradox that in losing yourself to Christ's love and grace in the service of others, you find yourself in the abundant life you were created to live!

Is there really a resurrection? Jesus taught that there was, and He was raised from the cold grip of death Himself! According to this Easter sermon, we must run like Peter and John did to see about news this good. If true, nothing will ever be the same again.

The promise of Easter morning, according to this sermon, is that in spite of the reality of pain, suffering, death, disappointment and defeat; in spite of all the hurt of the world in which we live, one day all God's children will pick up their tambourines and dance.

In a fresh look at the familiar story of Palm Sunday, this sermon invites us to ask with the crowd, "Who is this who comes...?"

'John tells us that one day a train screeched into the station called Israel. Jesus got off, and he told the milling crowds, the tired tourists wondering which train to take next, that His train was headed to a fabled land, a kingdom where the mountains climb for miles.' This Easters sermon invites us on a journey of hope.

This sermon looks at the story of Easter from the perspective of Barabbas, the only man who ever lived, who could assert--literally--that Christ Jesus died for him.