Resurrection has never been about resuscitation, the revival of a body that had stopped breathing and died. Resurrection happens when an old body gives way and new life rises from it: a new life growing out of the old one, a new life with some features carried over from the old, perhaps, but renewed and not the same. Butterflies are not caterpillars, and should not be expected to behave as if they were.
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The SPIRE – April 2020
Soon the forty days of Lent will be drawing to a close. Are you ready for Easter? Are you ready to recognize the risen Christ, not in a familiar story or in a sanctuary decked out in dozens of beautiful white lilies, but in the setting of a world-wide pandemic? I know I am working overtime to be ready, not because I am your pastor, but because I have never in 65 short years seen anything like this.
The SPIRE – March 2020
The season of Lent is limited to 40 days over six and one-half weeks (minus the Sundays), but the reason for Lent and our need for Lent are not so limited. The 40 days commemorate the 40 days Jesus spent in the wilderness, facing his demons and preparing for his coming ministry. Those 40 days echo the 40 years the Israelites spent in the wilderness, finding their way from captivity in Egypt to a new life in a home promised by God. But the reason for Lent is not a number; it is time set aside to prepare ourselves to allow something to die, so that new life may grow in its place.