Sermons on Easter Lily:

Sell It All?

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Apr 18, 2009

The command to become poor for the Gospel’s sake is really a liberation to preach the Gospel.

Tuesday of Second Week in Easter John 3 Today’s reading from Acts is a little scary. We always worry about the preaching of the Gospel, lest it impact on our lifestyle. It looks today as if Luke is telling us to sell our property and give it to the poor or to the community for the poor. A ...read more

Scripture: Acts 4:32-37

Denomination: Catholic

Keeping Order Among Our Passions Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on May 2, 2009

Christ is our shepherd, because we are prone as sheep to wander about in pursuit of pleasure, and be devoured by our passions.

Tuesday of 4th Week of Easter May 5, 2009 “If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.” So Jesus talks about sheep. As the Jews of His day–and ours, for that matter–saw it, Jesus never talked plainly. But that wasn’t Jesus’ problem with the Jews, or us, for that matter. Our problem is that Jesus ...read more

Scripture: John 10:22-30

Denomination: Catholic

Learn Your Lessons Well

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on May 17, 2009

The downward movement of God becoming man is mirrored by the upward movement of Christ returning to the Father

Tuesday of 6th week in Easter Acts/John Earthquake! What a terrifying sound that must have been to a first-century Greek. We in South Texas, sitting on this tapioca-karst bed of limestone as we do, far from any real tectonic plate junctions, have no idea what fear the word “earthquake” provokes. ...read more

Scripture: Acts 16:22-34, John 16:5-11, Ephesians 4:7-10

Denomination: Catholic

The Embodiment Of God's Unremitting Love Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 18, 2009

Jesus’s preaching differed from that of Jonah because Jonah prophesied judgement and vengeance, while Jesus embodied God’s unremitting love.

Monday of 16th Week in Course 20 July 2009 Caritas in Veritate Before continuing a commentary on the papal encyclical Love in Truth, let me spend a moment on this analogy to Jonah. Jesus is saying to these Jewish non-believers, in effect, “Jonah eventually got it, and you guys will never get it.” ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 12:38-42

Denomination: Catholic

Beauty And Truth In Worship Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Apr 11, 2009

Our worship in the Eucharist must bring together what we believe with the way we pray, and reflect both Ultimate Truth and Beauty.

April 13, 2009 Sacramentum Caritatis As we sit in the warm glow of Resurrection Day, we are invited to reflect on the connection between what we believe and how we pray. We believe that Jesus rose from the dead, that He conquered sin and death, and that we who eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:14-33

Denomination: Catholic

Jesus Wears His Crown

Contributed by Martin Ellgar on Dec 27, 2014

A drama for children: Jesus Wears His Crown.

Jesus Wears His Crown Text: Matthew 27: 27-31 Introduction: The drama is especially suitable for the season of Easter. Theme: Salvation through Jesus Aim: 1. To teach that Jesus is our saviour 2. To teach that the Saviour wears a crown of thorns. Materials: 1 Various hats (three or four) i.e. ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 27:27-31

Denomination: Lutheran

The Work Of Jesus On Calvary

Contributed by Dr.w.samuel Legon on Mar 14, 2018

What Christ did for us at Calvary.

Easter THE WORK OF JESUS ON CALVARY This is the results for all who believe. Luke 23: 28 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters ...read more

Scripture: Luke 23:28-33

Denomination: Baptist

Jesus, Our Hero

Contributed by Craig Condon on Jul 17, 2015

Jesus calls on us today to be heroes like him. We can be heroes like Jesus by doing things such as making our beds, washing the dishes, helping our parents with chores around the house or doing things for our friends or neighbours.

Good morning boys and girls! Can anyone tell me what a hero is? A hero is someone who helps someone else, especially when the person being helped is in danger. Who are your heroes? Sometimes we like to imitate our heroes by copying the way they act or the way they dress. Have any of you ever ...read more

Scripture: Luke 19:28-40

Denomination: Anglican

James- Least Known Of The Apostles Series

Contributed by Shawn Drake on Sep 13, 2019

This is the 9th sermon in the "Getting Acquainted With The 12 Apostles" series.

Series: Getting Acquainted With The 12 Apostles [#9] JAMES- LEAST KNOWN OF THE APOSTLES Luke 6:15 Introduction: There are 3 men named James in the New Testament- James, the son of Alphaeus; James, the brother of John; and James, the brother of Jesus and a leader in the early Church. We know ...read more

Scripture: Luke 6:15

Denomination: Baptist

Losing Popularity But Gaining Christ Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Apr 29, 2024

Jesus says we are not of this world, this secular society, and so those who hear us and see us will at first despise us and everything we do and say.

Saturday of the Fifth Week in Easter 2024 Today’s Scriptures give one of the best examples of stating a principle of evangelization in the Gospel and giving an example of application in the reading from the Acts of the Apostles. Jesus had given his farewell sermon and prayers during the Last ...read more

Scripture: Acts 16:1-10, Psalm 100:1-5, John 15:18-21

Denomination: Catholic

By Passion And Cross, Not Just Resurrection Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 12, 2021

Jesus tells us that he will not miss the pain and suffering, because that is an integral part of our fallen human nature, and he was like us in all things except sin.

Monday of 11th Week in Course Church from Eucharist Today’s reading from Matthew makes me squirm a bit. Maybe you, too. In modern English, we might say, if someone takes your shirt, go to your closet and give him your sport coat as well. That’s not to mention the radical call to nonviolence we ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 6:1-10, Psalm 98:1-4, Matthew 5:38-42

Denomination: Catholic

The Seventeen Percent Or The Seventy-Two? Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Apr 13, 2023

Frodo from Lord of the Rings is great fiction, but Jesus is the Risen King of the Universe.

Sunday After Easter 2023 A couple of years ago, Rasmussen surveyed Americans and found that seventy-two out of every hundred Americans believe that Jesus is Son of God and raised from the dead. Seventeen percent definitely deny that. Thomas the Apostle, after being told of Christ’s physical rising ...read more

Scripture: John 20:19-31, 1 Peter 1:3-9, Acts 2:42-47

Denomination: Catholic

Honoring Christmas 2023

Contributed by Risa Owens on Dec 22, 2022

New Year's

Honoring Christmas in 2023 Was 2022 a good, bad or an okay year for you? Was it one that you’d rather not live through again. As we are preparing to enter yet another new year, we have just finished celebrating Christmas. That brings me to my title honoring Christmas in 2023. As children and now ...read more

Scripture: John 3:16, Matthew 6:21

Retaliation Series

Contributed by Michael Monica on Dec 25, 2022

Understanding Sanctification

Retaliation | Matthew 5:31-42 v.38: An eye for an eye. • The “Lex Talionis” = the law of retaliation. An eye for an eye = the punishment for a crime needed to be equal to the seriousness of the crime. It also protected the offender from paying a greater price. [The Way of Jesus] v. 39: “…But I ...read more

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Jerked Back Into Reality

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Apr 23, 2022

The disciples were whipsawed into reality, that Christ was risen from death.

Easter Tuesday One of the realities of life is that our little minds are quite capable of self-delusion, and on a grand scale. Most of the time we fool ourselves into thinking we understand what is going on around us–way more than we actually do understand. We kid ourselves that we are in ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:36-39

Denomination: Catholic