Easter 3C (RCL) – A Preacher’s Ponderings

Conversion

Third Sunday of Easter; 1 May 2022; Easter 3C (RCL); Acts 9:1-20; Psalm 30; Revelation 5:11-14; John 21:1-19.

Luke summarizes and compresses (and fictionalizes) the story of Paul’s conversion. Paul himself gives several accounts of it: in Galatians and in 2 Corinthians, both times as authorization for the gospel he preaches. But Luke catches the essential elements. The passage in John’s Gospel gives us something like a conversion story for Peter.

Fish for breakfast

5 May 2019
Third Sunday of Easter
Easter 3C (RCL)
Acts 9:1-20
Psalm 30
Revelation 5:11-14
John 21:1-19

The Gospel reading this week feels like an appendix to John’s Gospel. The reading last week ended with a statement about all the things Jesus did not written in the book, and that these are written so that we may come to believe, and believing may have eternal life. A good place to end the book. And then we get this, oh, yeah, by the way story. Continue reading “Fish for breakfast”