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A Sermon by Cynthia Dahlin
8 May 2011
The 3rd Sunday of Easter
Happy Mother’s Day. I have lost my mother this spring, and no longer have young children to wake me at dawn and try to make breakfast, but I do have several spiritual mothers and sisters in my mission group and in former mission groups. I realized that being a spiritual mother was what I wanted to talk about today, in relation to my work at N Street Village.
“Jesus of Galilee is Good Enough for Me” by Pat Conover
1 May 2011
The 2nd Sunday of Easter
I’ve got a love/hate relationship with the Easter story and it is easier for me to get to the hate part than the love part. Marjory’s sermon last week helped. Celebration Circle’s liturgy for Easter helped. But I’ve got three problems with the Easter story. . . . Maybe some of them are problems for some of you. Maybe not. Anyhow, your listening might just help me get over my problems. If you don’t like what I say you can think of it as group therapy for me.
“While it was Still Dark” by Marjory Bankson
24 April 2011
Easter
“While it was still dark,” John’s gospel reminds us, Mary Magdalene made her way to the cave where the crucified body of Jesus had been sealed behind a huge stone. What she hoped to accomplish is not clear. I would guess she was drawn by love to keep a vigil there. When I don’t know what else to do, I would simply say BE THERE.
“What Would I Have Done?” by David Lloyd
17 April 2011
Palm/Passion Sunday
In Hebrew the term Messiah means “the anointed one.” Every king of Israel and of Judah had been anointed with oil at the onset of his reign. The Messiah too would become king, delivering Jews from oppression and into freedom and ushering in God’s kingdom, when the whole world worshipped the God of Israel and looked to the Jews for guidance, when evil and cruelty and hatred would be no more, when there would be no hunger or illness or disease or death, when ruined cities would be rebuilt and fields would be fertile, when Jewish refugees would return, when nations repented and atoned for their actions against the Jews, when peace would reign and there would be no need to create weapons, when there would be no sorrow but joy would last forever, when the dead would be raised. Belief in the coming Messiah is a very old tradition in Judaism, recorded in various scrolls of the Hebrew Scriptures, especially in Isaiah. And of course, Jews still await the coming of the Messiah.
“The Resurrection and the Life” by Deborah Sokolove
10 April 2011
The Fifth Sunday in Lent
I am interested in examining Jesus’ statement,”I am the resurrection and the life.” For many years, I have wondered what, exactly, might that mean. Of course, I had some intuitions, but I never have been able to parse what it might mean for a person, a human being, to BE resurrection. How could Jesus BE life? It would obviously make grammatical, logical sense to say that Jesus is the agent of resurrection, or that resurrection comes through him, or something like that, but – until recently – I have been puzzled by this somewhat illogical sentence. And, no, I don’t think that there is any recourse in the original Greek. I checked. It’s just as peculiar.A couple of weeks ago, however, I had an insight that I’d like to share with you. It’s still kind of unformed and certainly untested, so I’d be happy to hear what you think after I try to explain.