April 2022

April 17: Easter Sunday

When Paul is writing to the church at Corinth in today’s epistle lesson, he’s not offering platitudes. Paul’s not talking about everything working out in the end or one door closing and a window opening. Paul is writing to the church at Corinth to remind them of the best news there is, the good news of the gospel: Christ is risen from the dead trampling down death by death and to those in the tombs bestowing life.

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April 14: Maundy Thursday

As we’re joined together in this new covenant, living life to life in bread and wine divided among ourselves, we move from fragmentation to togetherness. As we share this meal together, wash one another’s feet, and then share Jesus’ body and blood, we are unified in the Spirit just as we’ve been unified to Jesus’ resurrection in our baptisms. Jesus says that people will know we are his disciples by our love, but yard signs and the Beatles and Lin-Manuel Miranda aren’t changing humanity or bringing us to unity in love. In telling the disciples to love one another, Jesus lays out the mission of the church.

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