An Easter Sunday Homily

By Mark D. Harris, MD, MPH, MBA, MDiv, PhD, ThM, DBA

Musical Prelude

• Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent
• O Sacred Head Now Wounded

Congregational Hymn

• The Old Rugged Cross

Scripture Reading – Isaiah 52:13-15, 53:1-12

Homily

Jesus was not despised and rejected because He personally short and ugly. Jesus was despised and rejected because He carried the ugliest, deadliest, and most terrifying parts of mortal human life in Himself. Everything which was dark and deadly, Jesus took. He took the agony not just of man but also of all creation. Every calamity in the universe fell on Him. Just as people fled from the Black Death, the Great Influenza, the guns of war, and the face of a corpse, so mortal man flees from Jesus.  His visage was too horrid to glimpse, much less endure.

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