1. He continues to gather other sheep in, and He does it through the selfless serving and the gracious speaking of His people.
  2. After more than a year of facing our collective mortality as a species, the promise of a physical resurrection is welcome news.
  3. The promise you will make, which brings about the presence of Christ and creates rejoicing, is the peace Jesus brought to the disciples that night behind locked doors.
  4. Like the women who came despite their questions, your hearers will gather despite their uncertainties, and they will be looking for a word of honest hope.
  5. Make no mistake, the life to which Jesus is calling His disciples is radically other than what our world preaches.
  6. This forty-day season of preparation for Easter is an opportunity for the people of God to rededicate themselves to hearing and responding to Jesus’ call to repent.
  7. It is hard to see clearly these days. While we have never been able to see as much as we would like, today we are more aware of our inability to perceive things as they really are.
  8. What is Jesus' conception of, “How is God’s kingship made effective?” It would happen through preaching.
  9. We begin in ignorance and we end in ignorance. But, in the midst of our ignorance, Jesus is walking with us.
  10. As Simeon sang, you might lead your hearers in a song of defiant and hopeful confidence to close out a year characterized by death and despair.
  11. At the center of this gospel reading is a conversation. It was of the memorable variety. It involved a peasant girl from a small town and a mighty messenger from God.
  12. Whatever else may come, however worse it may get, the light has come and will come again.
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