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The scriptures this week introduce us to someone we don’t hear about very much.  I’m speaking of St. Barnabas.  Tellingly, Barnabas is not the name he was born with.  His given name was Joseph.  But just as Saul became Paul, Joseph received a new name when he became a Christian.

The scriptures this week introduce us to someone we don’t hear about very much. I’m speaking of St. Barnabas. Tellingly, Barnabas is not the name he was born with. His given name was Joseph.

I have friends who sold their home on Capitol Hill, bought some sheep from somewhere in the Midwest, and moved to a farm in the Willapa Hills to make cheese. I asked their oldest son whom I baptized how he liked being a shepherd. He thought for a moment and answered, “It’s alright, he says, but it’s boring.”

I have friends who sold their home on Capitol Hill, bought some sheep from somewhere in the Midwest, and moved to a farm in the Willapa Hills to make cheese. I asked their oldest son whom I baptized how he liked being a shepherd.

The Bible is a large, complicated volume, made up of 72 books written over almost a thousand years. Most copies are more than one thousand pages long, and the new testament is usually about one third of the book.

The Bible is a large, complicated volume, made up of 72 books written over almost a thousand years. Most copies are more than one thousand pages long, and the new testament is usually about one third of the book.

The annual appearance of doubting Thomas…  In our own times there is a commonly accepted “universe of doubt” in which virtually no proposition is accepted as objectively true.  All truths claiming that name are, by virtue of the claim, considered suspect and not to be trusted.  If the former era was an Age of Faith, ours is an Age of Doubt.

The annual appearance of doubting Thomas… In our own times there is a commonly accepted “universe of doubt” in which virtually no proposition is accepted as objectively true.

We are storytelling people.  We need to hear stories – and we need to tell them.  We need to share what we know, what we have experienced, what we believe.  Well tonight, we tell our story.  A story that began in darkness and ends in blazing, brilliant light.  It is the story of how we were saved.

Easter isn’t just a noun.  Easter is almost something you should think of as a verb.  Just like our faith.  It is active.  It moves.  It’s something alive, and wondrous, and constantly in motion. 

We are storytelling people. We need to hear stories – and we need to tell them. We need to share what we know, what we have experienced, what we believe. Well tonight, we tell our story.

Easter isn’t just a noun. Easter is almost something you should think of as a verb. Just like our faith. It is active. It moves. It’s something alive, and wondrous, and constantly in motion.