Sermons on Easter (Page 2)

Sermons on Easter (Page 2)

3rd Sunday of Easter “Good Shepherd”-2025

JESUS AND THE FATHER ARE ONE: THIS IS FOR BOTH DOCTRINE AND EVANGELISM Prayer: Lord, we love Your Shepherd’s voice, Your watchful eyes shall keep our wandering souls among the thousands of Your sheep. You feed Your flock, You call our names, You bear us as Your tender lambs. We will be safe as You display Your power and guardian grace. Amen. (Isaac Watts, “Join All the Glorious Names”) Sermon Text: St. John 10:17-19, 23-31. “Therefore My Father loves Me,…

2nd Sunday of Easter – 2025

“MY LORD AND MY GOD” Prayer: O risen Christ, You said, “Blessed are those who have not seen, and yet have believed.” Mercifully grant that this benediction may be ours; so that, walking by faith and not by sight, we may evermore rejoice in You, and confess You as our Savior, our Lord, and our God. Amen. (Parish Prayers, ed. Frank Colquhoun) Sermon Text: St. John 20:28-31. Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said…

Easter – 2025

Exordium “He is risen from the dead!” We know these words so well, they can lose their impact. So think of it in the negative. What if we didn’t hear this? What then? What would be true if He didn’t rise from the dead? What do we lack? The first thing is that if death could hold Him and He didn’t rise, then His claims to be the Son of God would be false. His teachings, and God’s Word itself,…

Easter 7 –
Sunday after Ascension
2024

Sermon: Ephesians 1:17, 20-23 JESUS SITS AT GOD’S RIGHT HAND: WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? Ephesians 1:17, 20-23. 17 The God of our Lord Jesus Christ … 20 raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. 22 And He put all things under…

Easter 3- Good Shepherd Sunday 2024

Sermon: St. Mark 14:27-28; 1 Peter 5:1-5 A FAITHFUL SHEPHERD’S LEADING 1 Peter 5:1-5. The elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that will be revealed: Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but willingly, not for dishonest gain but eagerly; nor as being lords over those entrusted to you, but…

Easter 2 – Quasimodogeniti – 2024

Sermon: St. Mark 16:9-18 THE REST OF THE EASTER STORY IS JESUS TAKING AWAY DOUBTS Sermon Text, Mark 16:9-18. 9 Now when He rose early on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven demons. 10 She went and told those who had been with Him, as they mourned and wept. 11 And when they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they did not…

Easter – 2024

Sermon: St. Mark 16:1-8 Sermon Text, Mark 16:1-8 (v. 1, 5-7; preceded by 14:27-28). Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’ But after I have been raised, I will go before you to Galilee.” … Now when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, that they…

Early Easter Service – 2024

EASTER HOMILY By St. John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople (347-407) (Read around the world at Easter Matins or Easter Vigil) Are there any who are devout lovers of God? Let them enjoy this beautiful bright festival! Are there any who are grateful servants? Let them rejoice and enter into the joy of their Lord! Are there any weary with fasting? Let them now receive their wages! If any have toiled from the first hour, let them receive their due reward.…