Sermon: If Easter Had A Face - My last sermon at CUC (April 27, 2014)
Sermon: If Easter Had A Face Text: John 20:19-31 If Easter were a human person, like any other regular human being that I could meet face to face, I would like to ask, “Hey, Easter! We meet again this year, one more time. Yet, it is not just ‘another time’. Since I have known you, every year you come to me with a different face, with a different look. Hey, what’s up?” I imagine Easter as a human person and it makes sense to me only if she has a face, just as Jesus, the Jewish healer, wisdom teacher, Kingdom of God movement initiator, who breathed his last breath on the cross, had a human face. Easter has a human face. The communal resurrection of Christ has a human face – people. People. People who resurrect with Jesus. The communal resurrection of Christ comes after, only comes after the communal crucifixion of Jesus. Only after we communally experience and respond to and share the sufferings of another, only after we give our ears to the cries of the people in bewil