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Has Holy Week used up all your reserves – or do you have just enough oomph left to proclaim the Resurrection? And how will you share the good news? At a vigil? At sunrise? Or at a reasonable hour? What version will you tell?  Will you release the Alleluias? Will you celebrate the Sacraments. How will you tell the children?

Check out these links from earlier in the week for preaching the NL and the RCL.

For many, this has been a long, exhausting week but, like any birth, the pain and exhaustion are momentarily forgotten as we greet new life. So share your plans for preaching the Resurrection as we wait together for the stone to be rolled away to allow the Good News out.

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95 thoughts on “11th Hour Preacher Party:Release the Alleluias”

  1. Why am I up? My daughter came home for Easter from her new post-college life in the Boston area! We ate midnight Chinese takeout and watched John Oliver videos together!

    And because I knew she was coming, I managed to write a decent first draft on the Mark version of the resurrection. I am focusing on the unfinished nature of the text, and suggesting that we have been invited in, to finish it with our own journeys to Galilee… I.e., anywhere we can “meet Jesus again, for the first time.” To coin a phrase.

    That’s where I’m at. Blessings on you all, in the study and the proclamation, and also in experiencing the resurrection in your own hearts and lives.

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    1. Pat, hope you continue to enjoy time with your daughter. And, in proclaiming the Resurrection, may you too “meet Jesus as if for the first time”

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  4. Saturday evening and i am tired. Kitchen bench cleaned, which got rid of the unknown smell. Bread baked for communion tomorrow. cheesecake base setting in the fridge for lunch. i have yet to put the lamb shoulder in to marinade ready for a slow cook while I am at church in the morning, make the cheesecake [ after dinner mint] , prep the children’s talk, oh, and write a sermon. and it is 9.00 pm. ecumenical sunrise service is at 6.30 am, and i have 2 services, the first at 8.15 am – which means up at 5.30 am, or no breakfast ….
    at least i have an idea what i will write about – we see death and despair everywhere, but where do we see resurrection? are we Good Friday people or Easter Sunday people? I know we are both, you can’t have Sunday without Friday.

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    1. Pearl, I’m surprised you will have the energy to enjoy an Easter meal after that exhausting schedule. Looking for resurrection – that will preach!

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  5. Today will be a long day of set-up, making the liturgical “prop” transition from Good Friday to the Great Vigil of Easter – it’s not quite as huge an undertaking as Christmas, but it’s a lot. That will take all morning, then I have a rehearsal for the Great Vigil, so we all know and remember what we are doing. Thankfully my intern is going to preach the famous homily from St. Chrysostom tonight here. – it’s a wonderful homily for the Great Vigil.

    My Easter homily, short and as lighthearted as it can be considering all the violence in the world, is in a solid draft form. I hope to finish it this morning before I head over to the church, because in my context this is it!

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  6. sermon done, children’s talk done – resurrection eggs with only 5 plastic eggs and then a foil wrapped chocolate one about the same size. . there are rarely children in worship, so see if any are there tomorrow.
    Resurrection people

    now to marinade the lamb and make the cheesecake filling – without eating too much peppermint dark chocolate.

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    1. Oh Patty! Thank you for sharing your sermon. I’ve been searching for a good rhythm for the end of my sermon and found it in yours! I don’t know if one footnotes the cadence of a sermon, but I’ll definitely give you a shout out. 🙂

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  7. Luke: no one understands what’s going on, but: love is unleashed and death is defeated. I don’t understand it either, but I’m all for it.

    No idea what to do with the children.

    Funeral yesterday. It turns out that Good Friday is a good day for a funeral. In fact, I think I’ll post the sermon. It will be up soon.

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    2. Interestingly, our community Good Friday service last night was in the form of a funeral service for Jesus, complete with obituary and eulogies from Peter and Mary Magdalene. It does put one in the right frame of mind to ponder resurrection.

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  8. Exhausted is the first time event for me this year. Yet feeling blessed and grateful for the opportunity to lead others in the journey.

    I’m continuing the year long preaching with John party. Quite good and interesting! The message will be “A Tale of Two Mary’s” foci being beginnings(Christmas and Easter). Excited because a woman preaching the good news of the gospel got to do this first through one named Mary.

    Blessings to all for Jesus Lives!

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  9. My sermon title is taken from our current family obsession, the musical “Hamilton”: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story. I’ll start with a confession that every sermon since Transfiguration Sunday has been titled based on a song or lyric from the musical, which is so catchy we can’t stop singing it and hearing it at our house. We even answer each other with lyrics. Any one of us could tell you the story of the musical and the life story of the “Ten Dollar Founding Father without a Father” (who got a lot farther by working a lot harder…). We all know stories that become so much a part of us we could tell them anyplace, anytime. I’ll encourage the congregation that they know this Easter story, too, although we are somewhat confused by the way the details differ, just the way your aunt might tell a family story a little differently than your mother did. God counted on the women (we’re in Mark) to share the story, and although they were frightened, we know they eventually did tell someone. What’s holding us back? Are we afraid to tell it wrong? Afraid we aren’t worthy of it? Afraid people already know it? I’ll close by reading Peter’s speech from Acts 10, using him as an example of someone who, despite being a screw-up, told the story well.
    I’m resisting the temptation to rap the gospel. Just barely. But I may have people turn to their neighbors and tell it as best they can remember it. Thanks to RevGal Joanna Harader for her essay in “There’s a Woman in the Pulpit” about telling the story of the women at the tomb when she found herself in a hospital room at the bedside of a dying woman without a Bible.

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      1. Right? Where would I land? I’ve preached Mark two years in a row, with its indefinite ending, but of course many people would think of John’s version and Mary Magdalene and the “gardener.”

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      1. Thank you! I am the last one awake at my house. I think both preachers have a good word to bring, although as usual, our sermons are as different as we are, and also as different as our congregations. I emailed the sermon to myself; well, I did it twice; so I think it’s final. Just noodling around with a prayer, and then I can sleep.
        After worrying that we wouldn’t have nearly enough Alleluias to share for the purpose I had in mind, I made 20 more. Even so, we managed to fit in some board games with The Boy and to cook burgers on the grill. I’m impressed with us!

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  10. I am completely and totally in awe of those of you who preach AND cook Easter dinner. We have always been invited over to a church family’s home to join in their Easter celebration. Were it not for them, we’d be eating cereal.

    My title is “Remembering, Returning, and Rejoicing,” from the Luke passage. I think I have a draft, about half my normal length, to accommodate 3 special music pieces and communion. I’m going to what will be my pulpit supply congregation for the next couple of months. They’ve almost been filling the sanctuary on a regular Sunday, so I can’t wait to see what happens tomorrow.

    Today we need to clean up the house, attend a party at the neighbor’s house, and hopefully relax a tiny bit.

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    1. No one invites us anywhere, so we are getting Chinese! (Enough for lunch and leftovers for dinner, with a nap in between.) When I was on my own with my daughter, we would go out for sushi for Easter lunch. I will set the table with some cute Easter-y things, including my mom’s porcelain bunnies.

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    3. Cooking is renewing for me. But it’s just Mike and me, so it doesn’t have to be a great production. He has a spiral ham that he’s been making sandwiches from, so I might take some of it and glaze it. (It comes with a packet of “honey flavored glaze,” but I read the ingredients on it and–yuck!–I’m pretty sure I can make a more credible honey glaze to put on it. If I am ambitious tonight, I might make us some kind of pretty dessert. Or we might have a nice brunch and potato soup for supper. Who knows. First I have to write a sermon.

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  11. I will be preaching my last Easter sermon in this congregation tomorrow. I’m preaching on Luke. I am reminded that only three months ago, we were proclaiming Jesus’ birth. What have we experienced between birth and death/resurrection? How have we changed? I want them to think about what change and growing means for them as an individual and as a community. Appropriate for a church in transition. But I’m spending more time on what the resurrection means for them personally. I’m hoping to inspire people to really take this Good News out into the world.
    As for Easter dinner- I only have to put a ham in. My two awesome daughters- in-law will bring the food and the egg hunt for the kids! I’m a lucky woman! Blessings on your resurrection day!

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  12. Am shouting Alleluia from the rooftop (well figuratively anyway, not literally) because a true miracle has taken place. I have my sermon done for tomorrow morning!!! Now getting ready for my special needs daughter to arrive and also get the house cleaned and ready for Easter dinner with 10 family members tomorrow. Thank goodness I had the wisdom (?) to make it pot luck. Easter blessings to all my revgalblogpals.

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  13. I read an article this past week by Catherine A Caimano, from “Faith and Leadership” 2012. The basis was the six-word memoir of the church being “Jesus is risen from the dead.”

    So I started with that and sent an email to about 20 people from our congregation asking them, if they would like, to send me their own six-word memoir before Sat. noon. The response has been remarkable. People really dove into the exercise and enjoyed it. Some responses have been profound, others amusing, but all have been true to the person who sent it in. I will use them in my sermon, without naming the authors, to talk about the clarity you can achieve when you distil a life down to the things that matter most.

    Not sure how the sermon will turn out, but the exercise of collecting the stories has been wonderful.

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    2. Sue, I read that same message and fell in love with it! I too have asked for responses from church members but have gotten zero response. (Which in honesty would preach very well, but I;m not sure i;m up to THAT kind of honesty) I’m using Catherine Caimano’s work as a jumping off point for sunrise with the Luke passage. For the 10 am I have John and too many ideas on which way to go with it. Hopefully while the two oldest clean the living room, or rather fight about cleaning the living room, and the baby boy naps I can narrow them down a bit.

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      1. revhd, sorry you didn’t hear back from anyone. Would you like me to send you some of the responses I received? They wouldn’t be so much a reflecting back to the congregation, but I wonder if they might work as examples. Feel free to email me if you would like the stories. I’m at suecan at gmail dot com.

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    1. If you are a member of the RevGalBlogPals facebook group (and you can be, just ask!), there are lots of good ideas for children in a recent thread as well as in some of the files.

      Other than that, worshipingwithchildren.blogspot.com is my usual go-to resource.

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    2. For the kids, I wanted to talk about the surprise of the women at finding the tomb empty. (Luke’s Gospel FWIW) All the ideas that I could find for “surprise” illustrations seemed either a little scary or disappointing to me. Who really wants to open an empty Easter egg, when you’re hoping for jelly beans? How is that good news? So, here’s what I’m doing:

      With the help of family this afternoon, I’m blowing up a bunch of balloons, and putting them in a black garbage bag. Tomorrow I’ll drag the bag out and ask the kids what they think might be in it. What do we usually use these bags for? What kind of stuff do we expect to find in them? Then we’ll open up the bag and – surprise! – there will be balloons for everyone! That’s the kind of happy surprise that the women got when finding the tomb empty. They expected to be sad, and for Jesus to still be dead, but they learned that he was alive!

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  16. House tidied up. Lost lovey found (it was serious; it’s been lost for the better part of Holy Week). Swimsuits are on for the Easter party (no, it’s not warm enough to go swimming, even here, unless the pool is heated and you are under 10 years old).

    Sermon will likely not get another glance until after kids’ bedtime tonight.

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  18. Just coming to the party to bring a pot of coffee and some extra candies/sweeties to see us through. I am guessing, that if you are like me then coffee, sugar and prayer are all that are keeping you going.

    I think I am ready [although I am, as ever, somewhat expecting the Holy Spirit to do her thing and shake things up at the last minute so that my script looks more like a draft plan covered with sharpie marker amendments.]

    After our Soul Space time tonight I will set up for the morning and then head home for an early night. The clocks spring forward here tonight and I need to be at the lochside for an early morning service at 8am [need to be there 7.30am] But it does have the benefit of breakfast afterwards before our big celebration service at 11am.

    I am not preaching a sermon tomorrow – I am starting worship with the resurrection reading and then we move into some all age/kids fun with Easter Lotto/Bingo – a 2minute story containing words on pre-printed cards and the last word is common to all the cards – Jesus. I found it on a website and it will work really well with my congregation. When you get all the words you shout ‘Alleluia’ but of course no one will win til the end when I say the words – but Easter, just isn’t Easter if we don’t remember it is about Jesus [cue shouts of Alleluia from the whole assembly]. The we decorate our cross with spring flowers, have an egg hunt for the children and then my worship team are reading 5 monologues that tell the Easter story through the eyes of those present – Mary, Peter, the Angels etc.
    It will be ‘full on’ and hectic but a lot of fun and a great chance to celebrate together across the generations.

    Easter Monday I have a service but it isn’t til 2pm so I have plans to sleep til at least 9am!!

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  19. We talk a lot nowadays about “closure,” about some event that allows us to close the door on whatever difficult or traumatic event has happened. We assume that’s possible, desirable, and even necessary. But I would argue that it’s none of the above, and that the search for closure that never actually materializes in any satisfying manner can actually keep us from moving forward. So the women went to the tomb, which was closed, wanting to perform one more act of service to Jesus, so they can have closure and move on. Only the tomb was open, Jesus wasn’t there, closure was not available! And it still isn’t. Nor do we want it to be.

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  20. I’m preaching Luke and really enjoying the gender dynamics in his take. My title is “The Things We Can’t Believe,” and I’m looking at how the men didn’t believe the women (contrast that with how the women believed the men dressed in dazzling clothes in the tomb), and how there are things, too, that we find difficult to believe. Resurrection from the dead seems impossible to believe, of course, but how many other things are equally impossible for us to believe – that we could be set free from shame or guilt, that we could find comfort or healing for grief or sadness, that we could live a life not dominated by fear. I think it varies from one person to another – the thing we most need to know, most need to believe. How do we get there? How do we listen to the “minority report” in our hearts or our lives? I’m not sure. But that’s the invitation I’m focusing on.

    One of the things I’m most excited about is that a young woman and I will be reciting the Gospel together from memory. She will say part of it, I will say part of it, then she will say part of it, then in unison we will say: “But their words seem like nonsense to the men, and they did not believe them.” (I’m ending the reading with that verse instead of v. 12). I’m really looking forward to it, especially as I have come to feel like the actual reading of the Scripture is as important a proclamation as the sermon itself – if not more.

    I’m also hosting Easter dinner for extended family after worship so here’s hoping I can get all these thoughts out of my head and onto the page in a reasonable amount of time today.

    Happy to join this party!

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    2. That’s similar to the angle I’m preaching. The “idle tale” really jumped out at me this year, so I’m talking about how God’s messengers come to the unlikeliest of people – and those are the ones we need to listen to if we want to hear the word of God.

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  21. I am very grateful to my neighbouring minister (and fellow Revgal) Dorothy, who sent me her sermon for Sunday and told me to use what was helpful. I had reached Wednesday Afternoon with absolutely no idea what I was going to do tomorrow and knew there were 7 services (schools, care homes, dementia etc.) on Thursday and Friday. Her generosity has meant that today could be partly restful. Praise God for generous colleagues!

    For the children I am wrapping an Easter Egg in Christmas paper and we will discuss the links and differences between Christmas and Easter ( I think that was on the Church of Scotland starters for Sunday Website).

    I need to be up the Cannon Hill at 8am for worship before our usual 11am service, and then one of our elders is leading worship at a local care home and 2 of our young folk are helping him so I feel some pressure to go (and I know I will enjoy it if I just get there). So 3 services tomorrow – but only one I need to lead so I keep telling myself I will get there! Hang in there – we will all get there!

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  22. I thought I was nearly done, until I started reading this blog about theories of atonement! I am telling myself that Easter is a season, not a one-off, and I can save it for another week.

    My sermon so far is that Jesus “does” the resurrection all wrong – from a marketing perspective, that is. He appeared to the wrong people (Mary and the women, not Pilate or the Sanhedrin, or even the male disciples at first), he used ineffective promotion (fear sells! hatred unites! Just look at our current election cycle…), and the price is too high (you want me to take up my cross to follow. People will fear and reject me when I act in your name? Let me get another estimate…) And yet, here we are. Clearly, this is another sign that God has been at work, that Christ IS risen and alive.

    I loved someone’s comment that instead of revenge for killing God’s son, God raised him from the dead. But that might be another sermon…

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    1. Karen, I like your marketing perspective! And there’s a whole season to look at atonement, isn’t there? I saw that post too and have enjoyed wresting with it this week.

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    2. One year I compared Mark’s account to the account in the Gospel of Peter–a mile-high Jesus and a walking, talking cross following him around–and said that if I had been writing a resurrection story, I probably would have written it more like the Gospel of Peter. Spectacle versus an open tomb and a bunch of scared women running off. Which is more satisfying? Yet Mark’s version made it into the Bible, and the Gospel of Peter didn’t, and that in itself tells us something.

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  25. Yesterday was two services. We hosted the community service at noon and then had our traditional evening liturgy. Both included the Passion according to John and the Veneration of he Cross and Reproaches. The cross was brought in, and people could anoint it with oil, sprinkle it with holy water or rose petals. No Vigil here. Sigh. For tomorrow, we do light the new fire and Paschal candle just before the service and process into the church. Hoping the weather will hold! Will preach the Luke story, “An Idle Tale” but haven’t progressed too far yet. (Have been dealing with a dead furnace and equally dead car!)

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  26. I’m still pondering the 10 am service (Gospel of John). This is my first Holy Week at a new call; I arrived last April the 3rd week of Easter. I preached, and washed feet, and served Holy Communion on Maundy Thursday. Good Friday was a taize service – no sermon. My first Easter Vigil to preside is tonight; I’m preaching St. John Chrysostoms’ Easter Sermon.

    This morning I revised an “old” sermon for 8 am based on the Gospel of Luke. And am running out of steam. I only have a few jelly beans to share, though I will be putting together a french toast casserole soon, for tomorrow morning’s Easter Breakfast potluck, between services.

    This is our first Easter without “kids” at home. Santa Fe is just too far for our 2 living in America to come for an Easter visit. Bittersweet. Our eldest is 31, youngest 20, with a 26 year old in between, so we have had a long time of decorating, coloring eggs, Easter Egg hunts – in our home, and in the neighborhood. We are going out (after a nap) for dinner; I like Martha’s idea of Chinese.

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  27. I’ve been doing well the last couple of weeks – officiating at a couple of funerals and then hosting our Maundy Thursday service and participating at the UMC’s Good Friday service. I’m even toying with the idea of attending the Easter Sunrise service which I have to drive about a half hour to attend. I don’t live in the neighborhood where I pastor. And now it’s Saturday…and I know I need to get working on a sermon – (using Lukan passage) and finding it’s just like too many recent Saturdays with seemingly no reserve to craft a message worth hearing. I’ve looked at the texts, I’ve thought and read and yet it just seems like the virus that has infiltrated my spirit remains.
    One good thing that came to pass during this season of Lent is that I can very clearly claim what I believe my call to be…and that is to serve people by helping them grow in their spiritual journeys. It’s not to worry about church building renovations or what the other congregation that rents from us wants to do or not do….It’s helping people grow…and if they want to – that is great but if not, then it’s not my place to push it. I have invited my consistory (ad board, trustees equivalent in RCA) to join me in an 8 week course created and developed by Peter Scazzero – to help develop Emotionally Healthy Spirituality. I don’t know how well it works (or doesn’t) but I’m giving it a shot…it’s to help develop our relationships with Jesus – and isn’t that what all this is about? Relationship with Jesus so we can be in relationship with others.
    So, we’ll see what happens as the message comes together. And then it will be time to come home and nap while Hubby shares communion at an assisted living facility. And then maybe someone will invite us to dinner. 🙂

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  28. Spent part of the morning with my worship elder putting flowers and such in place in the sanctuary. Scribbled some sermon notes and reminders while finding my desk in the study, then came home to do a little grocery shopping and baking for the coffee hour in the morning. My head is FULL of allergy-related misery (no thanks to every plant in the state spewing pollen at once outside and lilies inside). I am having a hard time getting clear-headed enough to get thoughts onto the page. We’ll get there, but ugh.

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  29. 1/2 done sermon. Took a break to dye Easter Eggs with children age 3.5 years. Need to crowdsource: how to remove easter egg dye from hands. We tried nail polish. My one son’s entire hand is green; another son has orange hands and I have multi-colored. Thank God I am not serving communion tomorrow.

    Sermon title is “It Grows on You.” (and in you). Using Luke passage. We already ate 8 eggs of 12 between us. Dinner will be light fare this evening.

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      1. I just saw “toothpaste and baking soda” — maybe I will try first and see what happens. Need to finish sermon now before I lose train of thought AGAIN. Kiddos are with grandparents and it sounds like a ruckus. My Easter prayer is to get to bed before mid-night. I never sleep well on nights like this — i.e. holidays. Someone ought to do a write-in/write up on pastor insomnia. Keeping awake with Jesus perhaps is good, but I still require sleep to function.

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  30. 5:30 here and it’s time to get to work. If the Holy Spirit could deliver a miracle in the form of 8 minutes on Mark 16.1-18 in the next hour and a half, I could go to an Easter vigil. If not…I might be sitting here with you all for a while.
    I have made no further progress from when I posted earlier in the week in the NL discussion…the title is “overcome” and I’m thinking about the women being overcome with grief, with fear, and with the Spirit. Or something.

    I went to a big wine tasting event with some friends this afternoon, so I have advice on 26 wines and four cheeses to offer…and I have a few Lemonades (the girl scout cookie) and that’s about it. This week has eaten up (haha) my reserves of leftovers…

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    1. I love those lemon cookies… I have some sausage balls (those cheese/biscuit/sausage treats that show up at receptions around here) and fresh fruit to offer.

      My sermon title is Ta-Dah! Moving from God’s ta-dah! moment in the resurrection to the confusion of an empty tomb, to the promise of Christ meeting us as we go out into the world in need of stories of God’s power. Or something like that. Sneezing is so distracting

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  32. Am wantonly stealing Roddy Hamilton’s Easter in 5 words ‘the disciples were all gobsmacked’ and threading it through this rather late to bed sermon. Also threading Isaiah ‘new heavens and new earth verse throughout…
    Late to bed, cos had to go to church earlier to set up the resurrecting of ‘alleluias’ … complete with helium balloons with individual letters on, which will quietly emerge from near the empty box in which we’d placed our alleluias…and as they rise, so all the alleluias made at the beginning of Lent will also rise across the front of the sanctuary space, with some clever use of fishing line and weights and feats of engineering, lol.
    Also late to bed sermon, cos visiting earlier with one of my wee ones very near the end now. And given that, I do not mind the late to bed at all.
    On the plus side, too: 8am service done, and 6.30pm communion liturgy happily sorted thanks to the blessed Liz 😉 …and the 10.30 sermon shorter as we’ve an Easter baptism …huzzah.

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  33. I am borrowing and crediting Nancy Claire Pittman’s take on Luke from Feasting On The Word. She says just what I want to say and I can’t do it better. So I’m framing it, editing to make it more story-telling and giving her the credit up front.
    Will show some resurrection art to set the mood for NEW LIFE. Still not happy with the sermon title. Idle tale or Life Surprise, but bulletin is printed now.
    A wonderful woman brought a couple lilies and tulips to church today and it all looks lovely. (But I’m wondering how much pollen the lilies will have spewed by tomorrow.. and the boiler is still on. Circulator is off, but it could be hot in there.
    ah well, back to learning this story better and finishing my dinner wine. Didn’t get the nap I needed after a morning of interacting with egg hunters, so perhaps early to bed.

    Thanks for the help with children’s time. I’m going with surprise but in a different way this ;year. the surprise of Lion and Lamb and the surprise of new life from a seed. Then handing out cushaw squash seeds I got from a matriarch of this congregation before her death. Should be cool for the adults who knew her. Hope to draw a stronger connection that it sounds right now.

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  34. One small person is asleep (I hope/think). The other is…not. I’m about to take a look at my draft from last night and see if it’s usable.

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  35. 8:40 pm here! Just got back from my 2-year-old nephew’s birthday party. Plenty of energy and new life there 🙂

    Had a rough draft before I left, back to reread and make revisions. Trying to focus on the “idle tale” in Luke without scolding folks (particularly men) for not listening. And yet, there is an encouragement to listen to the voice of God even though it’s likely to come from unexpected places. So… to the revisions. Easter blessings to all!

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  36. Have a sermon – 5 minutes. Could stand a few more minutes and a bit more depth. With baptism and talking about baptism with kids for children’s time, I shouldn’t need much more. Sigh. To bed hoping that fresh eyes will see what needs to be done.

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  37. blessings and stamina for those of you still to see Easter Day. it is 5.00 pm Sunday afternoon here, two services led, lamb and cheesecake partially eaten, dishwasher is on.
    I ma looking forward to a looong sleep tonight.
    cheesecake is choc-mint if you would like a slice.

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