Colourful Dreamer

You can listen to this sermon here  Gate Pa – Year B  2 nd Sunday in Easter, 2024 Readings: Psalm                          Psalm 133 First Reading:             Acts 4:32-35  Second Reading :        1 John 1:1-2:2  Gospel:                        John 20:19-31 What I want to say: Explore what it was like for those male disciples – abandoned Jesus to his death, denied him, betrayed him. Did not die with him as Thomas promised not so long ago – now he is back!! -           How does that read about these two appearances Thomas teaches us that the Resurrection is not something to be convinced of, but s o...

The gospel reading for the second Sunday of Easter is always the great story of Thomas. We often call him Doubting Thomas and he gets a lot of negative press. But that might be a little unfair. Let’s look at the story again. A few days earlier (John 11) Jesus had said his friend Lazarus was asleep and that he was returning to Jerusalem. The disciples were shocked and afraid, but “…Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.” (John 11: 16). Then Jesus is arrested, the male disciples scatter, and Jesus is crucified. Three days later Mary Magdalene meets the risen crucified Jesus in the garden and goes to tell the disciples that she has seen the Lord. They respond by hiding behind locked doors. We might call them doubting disciples. Thomas is not with them. Then the risen crucified Jesus joins then and gives them peace. They then find Thomas and tell him they too have seen the Lord. But he is not so easily convinced. He thought he w...

This sermon can be listened to here   Gate Pa – Year B   2 nd Sunday in Easter,   Readings: Psalm                          Psalm 133 First Reading:                         Acts 4:32-35                Second Reading :                    1 John 1:1-2:2              Gospel:                                     John 20:19-31  ...