Comment: Emmanuel Church in Horicon had accepted the Christmas Eve "Pageant" very well (see page 25) but had showed no signs of interest in such drama for sermons. However, when we began planning the Maundy Thursday service, there was a fond remembrance of a tenebrae service, a service of candles, that had been done six years before. I wrote to the former pastor, Rev. Owen Miller, who generously sent what he had done. The concept was to say something about each disciple and extinguish a candle to bring about the tenebrae "shadows." I liked Owen's idea very much but wanted to do it more in narrative style. He was a pastor who wore a clerical collar much of the time. I didn't even wear a robe in the pulpit. The following is the text we used, not only that year, but each year I was Emmanuel's…
The Disciples' Tenebrae
Mark 12:13-17
Mark 12:13-17
Sermon
by Jerry Eckert
by Jerry Eckert
CSS Publishing Company, In The Carpenter's Workshop, by Jerry Eckert