THEOLOGICAL CLUE

The rather indistinct shouts of the resurrection of our Lord - "Christ is risen! He is risen, indeed !" - continue to sound in our ears as we approach mid-October and, depending on the lectionary followed and the calendar year. We have to listen for them to hear them; the celebration of Easter is so far behind us! But the church year reminds us that the "sound" of the resurrection reverberates throughout the entire year and should be repeated every Lord's Day, every Sunday of the year. That's where our hope lies - in the crucified and risen Lord, whom God gave to the world to atone for sin on the cross and whom he justified in his glorious resurrection.

Our business is to make the sounds of the resurrection loud enough that the whole world will hear them; they need to be…