by L. Gail Irwin | Mar 31, 2024 | sermons
Gospel Reading: John 20:1-18 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and...
by Rev. Ashley Harness | Apr 17, 2022 | sermons
Scripture: John 20:1-18 I have dozens of voicemails from my mom who died last November saved on my cell phone. They go back almost a decade. In every one of them, she begins, “Hi sweetie pie…” In the early ones, her voice is so filled with life. She is often...
by Rev. Dr. Rebecca Voelkel | Apr 4, 2021 | sermons
Scripture: John 20:1-18 The trauma had happened quickly. There wasn’t a lot of time between the shock of his arrest, the frantic attempts to get Pilate to release him and the horror of watching him die. And she had been there for all of it. She had borne witness and...
by Rev. Ashley Harness | Apr 12, 2020 | sermons
Matthew 28: 1-10 I imagine Mary Magdalene and Mary, Jesus’ mother, had been holding the fear and joy that comes from loving somebody of such passion deeply for some time… but especially these last weeks. Their whole world had become more tense in these recently. There...
by Rev. Ashley Harness | Apr 21, 2019 | sermons
Listen here: “Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person,” says Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. At the end of the 6th century, Pope Gregory the Great wrote a sermon that “would come...
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