Words: Jim Burklo Tune: Christ the Lord is Risen Today – Easter Hymn 7.7.7.7.
Tune: St. Christopher 76.86.86.86
Jesus is not my scapegoat / for any wrong I’ve done It isn’t fair to place on him / what he had never done
Death does not speak the final word. Resurrection does. Christianity stands or falls with this central confession: God raised Jesus from the dead.
An Easter Journey
A progressive Christian encounter with the Easter story that situates it within the longer story of sacred love and within our lives today.
Top Jesus scholars Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan join together to reveal a radical and little-known Jesus. As both authors reacted to and responded to questions about Mel Gibson's blockbuster The Passion of the Christ, they discovered that many Christians are unclear on the details of events during the week leading up to Jesus's crucifixion.
From the Seasoned Celebration collection
1. The fragrance of Spring lies not in judgement's intervention but in love's nurturing of the interior goodness. 2. Spring is not so much a moment as a movement, a manifestation of the sometimes hidden but always present life-force of God.
Written by William Channing Gannett
Bring, O morn, thy music! Night, thy starlit silence! Oceans, laugh in rapture to the storm-winds coursing free! Suns and planets chorus, praise to all found holy. Life was, and is, and evermore shall be.
From the Festive Worship collection
1. Easter is the festival of the irrepressible God whom not even death can contain. 2. Most of us would prefer a cozy God to a God who shatters our complacency. Yet Easter is about a God who bursts tombs of the familiar, the ordinary and the mediocre.
From the Boundless Life collection
From Good Friday’s gruesome darkness To the rise of Easter Morn Lies a path beyond our coyness, Path that holds the newly born.
For deeper love we spread the bread I won’t be full till all are fed Till every soul has home and bed The rest of us can’t move ahead
From the Boundless Life collection
In between the Cross and Rising, In between our grief and light, Lie the tombs of hibernation, Times of inner healing's might.
Love one another as I love you all; In others’ needs hear my insistent call. I bid you wear with me love’s seamless dress, Welcome the outcast from the wilderness.
From the Boundless Life collection
To our winters Jesus brings Light and warmth and dancing, Melting frozen lives and hearts, Freeing and enhancing.
"you who delight me" is in two parts: poems of love—secular and spirited writing about people, places and events; and words of spirit and faith—inclusive language, contemporary liturgies for individual contemplation and progressive faith communities.
A bloody cross, a cold stone grave, A gentle man no one could save
Beginning with the traditional opening from Charles Wesley, this moves into a progressive Christian expression of resurrection. Christ the Lord is risen today - Alleluia! Mortal tongues and angels say: - Alleluia!
Lo! Christ is with us, risen from the tomb; Love for one another, conquers hopeless doom; Let the church with gladness, hymns of joy now sing: For with Christ arisen, death hath lost its sting.
JOHN MARK, the gospel novel written by Christopher Epting, came to life in Jerusalem. While on a sabbatical there at St. George’s College, he felt inspired to enter more deeply into the biblical story by focusing his mind and heart on the very first gospel ever to be written, the one attributed to St. Mark. But who was this Saint? And how did he come to create a literary masterpiece that would open the door for others, for Matthew, Luke and John, to follow?
The Year of Luke is the first in a series of commentaries on biblical scripture found in the three-year cycle of Christian liturgical