“If I climb up into heaven, thou art there; if I go down to hell, thou art there also” – words from Psalm 139 which speak of the presence of God in the whole of the universe. If you were not in Church on Good Friday or Palm Sunday then, I am afraid, you are […]
Sermon Topic: Easter
The Resurrected Body: A Joyous Mystery
Alleluia. Christ is risen. The resurrection is a joyous mystery, and we need to hang on to both of those words. The joy is what hits us first. The priest who brought me into the Episcopal Church, Father Don Campbell of the Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe, put it vividly. The foundation […]
The Tomb is Empty
I once had a professor who had a bad hip, and bad eyesight. His hip caused him to waddle a bit like a penguin, and his eyeglasses provided a great prop for something he did more often than he probably realized. This made him lovable, but also easily mimicked. “How you view the world,” he […]
A Sermon for Eastertide
Because Dean Willis preaches extemporaneously, there is no written transcipt. However, you may listen to an audio file, available below.
Jesus's Resurrection Appearances
In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen. I think it’s important every Easter for the preacher to stress two things. First, welcome everyone. Be glad they’re here! I might say that we do this sort of thing every Sunday, and that at those other times it’s […]
Jesus's Empty Tomb
Alleluia. Christ is risen! In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen. This Great Vigil of Easter is a liturgy stemming from the earliest centuries of the Church. This service itself was designed by those early Christians to do what has been done for us this evening. […]
Christ's Resurrection Changes Everything
In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen. We are all here today because of an event which occurred in Jerusalem nearly two thousand years ago sometime between midnight and sunrise on the first Easter Sunday. No one saw it happen, but happen it did: God raised […]
