Every time someone is baptized, every time bread is broken and wine poured, every time a sinner hears, “Your sins are forgiven in Christ,” Pentecost happens again.
They were still praying, trusting, and hoping. Why? Because they knew who was with them and who was for them: the risen Christ.
So Christ is risen, but what now?

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Why was Jesus crucified? Not to save victims, but to save sinners.
The authority God gives to men—to you and I as baptized believers in Christ—is to forgive sins, to free them from guilt, to free them from the power of sin.
The dying words of Jesus were not, “Make it worth it,” but “It is finished.”
Jesus takes that burden away in the “I forgive you and them” and gives us His “light” burden.
There is no pain like the pain of being mistreated by those who, above all others, you expect to love you unconditionally.
We all began by hearing the truth, and then speaking the truth and believing the truth. That truth came to us on the lips of another.
What we see in the face of this God is not a loathing expression. We find the face of a compassionate man who knew all about shame himself.
Like any language, the liturgy has syntax—a structure that provides order and intelligibly communicates meaning through all that is said.
Have you ever played hide and seek with a 2-year-old? News flash: They’re terrible at it.
Take away the water, words, bread and wine. Can you be a Christian without water, words, bread and wine?
Can God forgive friends who abandoned Him in His hour of greatest need?
Faith does not require that we always Hoorah what the Lord does. God wants children, not brown-nosers.