The undoing of death : sermons for Holy Week and Easter
A collection of twenty-five years' sermons from Holy Week and Easter, offering a wide-ranging vision of the Cross and Resurrection. Divided into seven sections that progress through Holy Week from Palm Sunday through Good Friday to Easter and on through Eastertide, the sermons incorporate the biblical themes of sacrifice for sin, vicarious suffering, victory over evil and death, and the new creation arising out of eternal love. None has ever been published, before. Includes thirty-three art masterpieces depicting the events of Holy Week. The author is an Episcopal parish priest now engaged in a nationwide ministry of preaching and teaching
Print Book, English, ©2002
W.B. Eerdmans Pub., Grand Rapids, Mich., ©2002
sermons
xxii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780802839695, 080283969X
48649260
The first day of Holy Week : the Sunday of the passion, commonly called Palm Sunday
The tears of Palm Sunday
The new world order
Lead us to Calvary
A procession of fools
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of Holy Week
The king's ransom
The Messiah comes to his temple
The lamb of God
Thursday of Holy Week : commonly called Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday
Lord, not my feet only
Night of shame, night of glory
The Lord looked at Peter
Good Friday
Seven meditations
The man with no trousers
Shame and spitting
Scapegoat and sacrifice
The common criminal
Somebody has got to pay
The accursed Messiah
The heart that broke
Six meditations
Despised and rejected
God made Jesus to be sin
Outside the camp
Not bad but good
The curse and the substitution
The stealth bomber
Three meditations : the three signs on Calvary
Darkness at noonday
The temple veil
The open tombs
More sermons for Good Friday
The hour of glory
The great exchange
The crucifixion of self-help
September 11, 2001 : a cross at ground zero
The day of resurrection : Easter day
Midnight in the kingdom of death
Face to face, hand in hand
Easter week
Beyond possibility
Recognizing Jesus
The undoing of death
Out of our control
Refreshment time
Eastertide, also called the Great Fifty Days
Low Sunday or high Sunday?
My taste was me
The peace from somewhere else
It ain't necessarily so
The hidden pathway to joy