Category Archives: Easter

Text: John 10:1-10 Date: Easter IV + 5/15/11 Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI The Fourth Sunday of Easter every year in the three-year lectionary is known as Good Shepherd Sunday as our Easter rejoicing begins to grow from the… Continue reading →

Text: Luke 24:13-35 Date: Easter III + 5/8/11 Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI Even though this is now the third Sunday of Easter, the third week of the seven, the fifteenth day of the fifty, today we are still hearing what ha… Continue reading →

Text: Matthew 28:1-10 Date: Easter Day + 4/24/11 Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI As preparation for the season of Lent, on the festival of the Transfiguration of our Lord, the sermon title catapulted us, ready or not, into As… Continue reading →

Text: John 17:20-26 Date: Easter VII + 5/16/10 Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI At the end of His speaking in the Upper Room on that Thursday night of Holy Week, the night in which He was betrayed, our Lord Jesus Christ prayed… Continue reading →

Text: John 16:23-33 Date: Easter VI + 5/9/10 Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI Thanks to Jesus’ own promise the Holy Spirit accurately brought to St. John’s remembrance as he penned his Gospel all that Jesus had said on tha… Continue reading →

Text: John 16:12-22 Date: Easter V + 5/2/10 Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI The scripture readings for this Fifth Sunday of Easter have us looking both forward and back. The reading from Revelation is obviously a glimpse of w… Continue reading →

Text: John 10:22-30
Date: Easter IV + St. Mark, Evangelist + 4/25/10
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI
Someone once pictured the great multitude of St. John’s vision standing before the throne of God in heaven from a unique point of view. It was the view from behind the great multitude and all you can [...] Continue reading →

Text: John 20:19-31
Date: Easter II + 4/11/10
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI
When our Lord Jesus Christ appeared to His disciples on that first Easter evening, He could have, maybe even should have, reprimanded them for their unbelief, their disloyalty, their fear and failure; and even more so when He appeared the next [...] Continue reading →

Text: Luke 24:1-12
Date: Resurrection / Easter Day + 4/4/10
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI
There was a time when people actually believed that the world was flat and that the sun and the stars all revolved around the earth. It only made sense according to our perception, our limited perspective. Of course, science [...] Continue reading →