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April 2007 |
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| April 1, 2007 - Palm Sunday - "The Things that Make for Peace" - Luke 19:28-44 - Rev. Jonathan E. Carroll..."Spring has sprung and we, like so many of the rest of you, have begun
slowly but surely to be about the things that Spring allows..." |
April 5, 2007 - Maundy Thursday - A Sermon by Rev. Jonathan E. Carroll, preached at Settle Memorial United Menthodist Church - Matthew 27:33-44 - "A Season of Scorn"...
"If you have ever made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, your tour guide will
have shown you, among many other things, two possible locations for the
place of Jesus’ crucifixion..."
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April 6, 2007 - Good Friday's Tenebrae Service - "A Late Spoken Word" - John 18:28-19:22 - Rev. Jonathan E. Carroll ... "On that Friday long ago when Jesus was crucified, the people who came to Calvary spoke such a variety of words to the cross..."
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| April 8, 2007 - Easter Sunrise - "On the Loose" - John 20:1-18 - Rev. Jonathan E. Carroll "John begins the Easter story with the words, "Early on the first day of
the week, while it was still dark ..." This is always how our discovery
of the risen Christ begins--in darkness. While it was still dark, Mary
Magdalene went to a tomb because earlier in the week Jesus had been
killed. With him, her hope died." |
April 8, 2007 - Easter Sunday - "I Have Seen the Lord!" - John 20:1-18 - Rev. Jonathan E. Carroll ... "My father grew up on a farm that lay beside the Great Dismal Swamp
Canal, a marshy region on the Coastal Plain of southeastern Virginia a
stone’s throw from the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. And in many ways, I
grew up there, too."
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April 15, 2007 - Second Sunday of Easter - Rev. Ralph W. Hawkins, Guest Preacher, Pastor of Altavista Presbyterian Church, Altavista, Virginia - Luke 24:1-12 - "Telling Stories" ...Although our Easter confession is by most standards hardly reasonable, it is nevertheless the zenith of God’s redeeming work. To invite the congregation to risk the strangeness of Easter in order to access its message and power..."
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| April 22, 2007 - Third Sunday of Easter -
Rev. Wesley S. Kendall, Associate Pastor - John 21.1-19 - "Back At It Again" ... "The more things change, the more they stay the same, or so it appears when we peer into the concluding events of John's Gospel." " |
| April 29. 2007 - "The Great Ordeal" - Revelation 7.9-17 - Fourth Sunday of Easter - "...At the end of the day – after the prayers, debates, and conversations,
the representatives of the then Christian Church decided among the many
histories, proverbs, Gospels, and psalms, that there would be 66 books
in the Biblical canon: 39 in the first Testament; 27 in the second one.
Of these 66 books that comprise our holy scriptures, none of them has
evoked more controversy, more speculation, more misunderstanding, or
more bad biblical interpretation as has the last book: Revelation.." |
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