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Acts 2:1-21; Psalm 104:24-34,35b; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13; John 20:19-23 Burch says of Pentecost and Acts 2: “When the Spirit is poured out on ‘all flesh,’ identity isn’t erased — it is expanded. The Holy Spirit...
“Are We There Yet?” (A25: Seventh Sunday of Easter)
Acts 1:6-14; Psalm 68:1-10,32-35; 1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11; John 17:1-11 Lackey uses today’s lectionary texts to explore the in-between. “The Seventh Sunday of Easter teaches us not to ask God, ‘Are we there yet?,’ but...
“Unstickable” (A24: Sixth Sunday of Easter)
Acts 17:22-31; Psalm 66:8-20; 1 Peter 3:13-22; John 14:15-21 Maxell uses 1 Peter 3 — and the 1974 fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman — to explore what it means to be “spiritually unstickable.”...
“This Is the Way” (A23: Fifth Sunday of Easter)
Acts 7:55-60; Psalm 31:1-5,15-16; 1 Peter 2:2-10; John 14:1-14 Speight focuses on John 14 — and Jesus’ passage about being “the way, the truth and the life.” Says Speight: “For us, the Way is not...
Nobody In, Nobody Out” (A22: Fourth Sunday of Easter)
Acts 2:42-47; Psalm 23; 1 Peter 2:19-25; John 10:1-10 “I am not a shepherd and do not play one on TV,” says Conrad. “But here are a couple of things this passage tells us about...