Sermons By Alan Bentrup

All week we have been listening.A crowd. Water poured out. A hammer. And then silence.Tonight the ground shook.In this Great Vigil of Easter service from St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Keller, Texas, Fr. Alan offers a brief reflection on what the resurrection actually sounds like: not a quiet next chapter, but an earthquake. The sound of a door torn off its hinges from the inside. The sound of death discovering it has been outsmarted.Hell made its move on Friday. It looked like a victory.It was not a victory.And no one has ever said that better than John Chrysostom. Written in the fourth century and never improved upon, his Paschal Homily is one of the great proclamations of the Christian faith. Rather than compete with it, Fr. Alan steps aside and lets Chrysostom preach.Listen.The Sounds of Holy WeekSt. Martin's Episcopal Church | Keller, TexasScripture: Matthew 28:1–10