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Preparing to Preach on RESURRECTION: Giving up the notion of a physical resuscitation.

By Rev. Dawn Hutchings|2023-10-17T14:01:56+00:00April 1, 2018|

This Sunday worship services will begin with the proclamation that: Christ is Risen! Christ is risen indeed. Alleluia! Let me follow that proclamation up with a good Lutheran question:“What does this mean?” What does it mean that Christ is risen? What does resurrection mean? The truth is that there are about as many different explanations of Christ’s resurrection as there are Christians. And that’s a good thing, because the question of the resurrection is a question that lies at the very heart of Christianity. So, is it any wonder that Christians have been struggling to come to terms with resurrection since the very first rumours that Christ had risen began to circulate. Over the centuries the various responses to the question of resurrection have divided Christians as various camps work out various responses.

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Resurrection as Change: Deleting “God” – Part III

By John Bennison|2023-10-17T13:59:46+00:00May 25, 2017|

The idea of “God” has been problematic for as long as the notion existed. As a result, “God” has admittedly been for me a direction; but neither a destination, nor even a companion along the way any longer. As the poet suggests, if the notion of “god” is directional movement from a former past to the present now, then perhaps it is the time to leave the “G” word behind. What does that mean?

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Resurrection as Change, Part II

The Emmaus Experience of Transformation

By John Bennison|2023-10-17T13:59:37+00:00April 28, 2017|

The Emmaus legend is about both the inevitability of change and the possibility of transformation. … In all the swift and varied changes of this world, the elusive goal of converting hearts and minds remains optional.

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Humpty Dumpty, Doubting Thomas, and Resurrection – John 20:19-31 – Easter 2A

By Rev. Dawn Hutchings|2023-10-17T13:59:35+00:00April 23, 2017|

Do I believe in the resurrection of the body and the life ever lasting? The truth is, that like Saint Thomas, I too have questions. Do I believe in the resurrection of the body and the life ever lasting? I have experienced the Risen Christ in the body of Christ that is the church. I believe that Christ has no hands but our hands, for we are the body of Christ. Christ lives through us, just as surely as Christ lived through those who first believed in things not yet seen. So, in the presence of such a great crowd of witnesses, with all the saints of every time and place, I can say, “Yes, I believe!”

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The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene

By Bret Myers|2023-10-17T13:59:32+00:00April 23, 2017|

Mary Magdalene was the first person, male or female,

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Resurrection is not a reality but it is a potential

By Community Christian Church, Springfield|2023-10-17T13:59:33+00:00April 20, 2017|

Featuring "Purpose in the Pain" by David GreathouseToday's Easter message consists of 4 vignettes coupled with 4 original musical compositions of David Greathouse.

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Resurrection Is Only Change: A Brief Reflection for the Observance of Good Friday and Easter – Part I

By John Bennison|2023-10-17T13:59:31+00:00April 15, 2017|

Recently I’ve become aware of some significant changes occurring in the personal lives of some of the folks that gather in our monthly Pathways circle. Some changes are welcome, while some are not. It’s a mixed bag. It all reminds me, once again, of the only constant thing in our lives. It is the progressive changes that continue unabated, with whatever number of days we are each randomly accorded. Me included.

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What if the point of Jesus life, death, and resurrection isn’t about that? – a Reformation Sermon

By Rev. Dawn Hutchings|2023-10-17T13:58:48+00:00January 8, 2017|

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Practicing Resurrection: Sophia/Wisdom – A Sermon for Mothers’ Day

By Rev. Dawn Hutchings|2023-10-17T13:57:23+00:00May 6, 2016|

El Shaddai, Eloheim, Rauach, Chokma, Rechem, YAHWEH, these are the ancient biblical Hebrew names for the reality that we call God. El Shaddai which translates as “she – breasted one, ”Eloheim which is the feminine plural for “majesty,” Rauach a feminine word for “wind” “breath” “spirit,” Chokma, a feminine word for “wisdom.” Rechem also a feminine word which translates as “ womb love” mother love, compassion. YAHWEH – I AM, WHO AM or I shall be who I shall be Ancient biblical Hebrew names for the reality that we call God.

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Marcus Borg & Charles Holt Discuss Jesus’ Resurrection

By Rev. Dawn Hutchings|2023-02-25T19:06:33+00:00April 13, 2016|

Recorded February 7, 2013: Marcus Borg and Charles Holt discuss Jesus' resurrection. During this Season of Easter conversations about the meaning of resurrection are crucial to help us move beyond carefully constructed doctrines which we were once instructed to "believe". At Holy Cross we are exploring the question: "Can the ways in which we tell the stories of resurrection transform us into followers of Jesus who embody a way of being in the world that can nourish, ground, and sustain the kind of peace that the world yearns for?" Marcus Borg and Charles Holt's conversation contributes so much to this broader conversation.

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A Way to Understand the Resurrection – Richard Holloway

By Rev. Dawn Hutchings|2023-10-17T13:57:18+00:00April 13, 2016|

Richard Holloway, the former Primate of the Scottish Episcopal Church, interprets the story of the resurrection not as an historical tale, but as our own story. Holloway has written of his longing for a humbled and broken church. His own humility and brokenness shines through this video as Holloway embodies his own longing

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Resuscitation or Resurrection?

By Bret Myers|2023-10-17T13:54:42+00:00April 9, 2015|

If you look into a chrysalis, what you discover is an empty tomb. The caterpillar is gone; not resuscitated, but resurrected. Now lives a butterfly.

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Resurrection is Hope For Every Day

By David Green|2023-10-17T13:54:43+00:00April 8, 2015|

In the midst of this annual affirmation of the power of love over death, as a Christian minister I’ve occasionally been tugged aside by a church member. In hushed, earnest, and slightly embarrassed tones they’ve asked: “What does the resurrection mean for me, today?”

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God’s Resurrection Way

By George Stuart|2023-10-17T13:54:43+00:00April 4, 2015|

I look about, and when I do, I see the wond’rous sight Of the cycles of the cosmos, changing darkness into light; When I ponder on this miracle, I’m swamped with great delight; God’s resurrection way!

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Keeping Christmas Well: a Christmas Resurrection Story

a sermon for Advent 4B

By Rev. Dawn Hutchings|2023-10-17T13:54:09+00:00December 22, 2014|

I used to think that A Christmas Carol was the story of Scrooge’s metamorphosis. The scene in the movie were Scrooge realizes that it is Christmas morning and that life doesn’t have to be the way it has always been and he does that wonderful dance and sings: “I don’t know anything! I never did know anything all on a Christmas morning!” I always thought of that wonderful dance as the culmination of Scrooge’s metamorphosis, like a butterfly bursting forth from a cocoon. But now I see it for what it really is. It is a dance of resurrection. For Scrooge was dead. Dead and gazing at his own tombstone, when suddenly, and suddenly for me always indicates the work of the Spirit, suddenly, Scrooge realizes that what he is seeing are only the shadows of things that might be. Suddenly, Scrooge knows “that men’s deeds foreshadow certain ends. But if the deeds be departed from surely the ends will change!” Scrooge is born again and is able to declare with confidence, “I’m not the man I was.” And so, the resurrected Scrooge becomes all that God intended him to be.

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Affirmations and Confessions of a Progressive Christian Layman – the Resurrection

By Ed Taylor|2023-10-17T13:51:45+00:00March 11, 2014|

We need to subject the resurrection stories of the New Testament to the same critical analysis as we did the crucifixion. So let us examine Paul’s writings and the gospels in an attempt to discover what the event we call Easter really was.

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Resurrection DVD

By The SALT Project

By Josephine Miller|2023-10-17T13:50:52+00:00November 21, 2013|

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Messiah’s Resurrection and Messianic Jewish Belief

By Howard Pepper|2023-10-17T13:48:13+00:00July 8, 2012|

I've titled this as about the Resurrection, which is just one part of a complex of beliefs... but let's return and end there... What similarities or differences do you see in Paul's Resurrection statements and beliefs and those of the early Jerusalem Jesus-followers?

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