Easter Archives - Brian Harris https://brianharrisauthor.com/tag/easter/ Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:23:57 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/brianharrisauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cropped-brianharrisauthor-favicon-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Easter Archives - Brian Harris https://brianharrisauthor.com/tag/easter/ 32 32 93416650 Complicated Loyalty: Reflections on Peter’s Denial of Jesus… https://brianharrisauthor.com/complicated-loyalty-reflections-on-peters-denial-of-jesus/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/complicated-loyalty-reflections-on-peters-denial-of-jesus/#comments Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=6318 With Easter approaching, it’s likely just a matter of time until you are reminded that the most famous of Jesus’ disciples, Simon Peter, denied knowing who Jesus was not once, or even twice, but a brazen three times. While overall Peter gets an impressive grade as the first human leader of the early church, this […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/complicated-loyalty-reflections-on-peters-denial-of-jesus/feed/ 2 6318 Remembering the Friday… https://brianharrisauthor.com/remembering-the-friday-2/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/remembering-the-friday-2/#respond Thu, 17 Apr 2025 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=5521 We are sometimes a little uncomfortable with Good Friday, and tend to rush past it to arrive at Easter Sunday as quickly as possible. Yet unless we feel the weight of the Friday, we will miss much of the mystery of Easter. If you are a theologian you might say that a theology of suffering […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/remembering-the-friday-2/feed/ 0 5521 Who would have thought? When change is possible… https://brianharrisauthor.com/who-would-have-thought-when-change-is-possible/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/who-would-have-thought-when-change-is-possible/#comments Sat, 06 Apr 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4756 Ever had one of those “who would have thought” moments? I’m thinking of those in the positive category – when you are delighted that something has unexpectedly come off, or you are so pleased that someone you underestimated has hit a six. True, we also have dismal and disappointed “who would have thought” nightmares when […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/who-would-have-thought-when-change-is-possible/feed/ 2 4756 Just Another Sunday? https://brianharrisauthor.com/just-another-sunday/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/just-another-sunday/#respond Sat, 30 Mar 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4738 Don’t know about you, but Easter has snuck up on me unexpected. In my head I think of it as an April thing, but of course it’s on the first Sunday after the full moon on or after the Spring equinox, and sometimes that’s in March. It’s so much easier to remember Christmas with its […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/just-another-sunday/feed/ 0 4738 Friday… https://brianharrisauthor.com/friday/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/friday/#respond Thu, 28 Mar 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4743 If you are part of the Christian world, you’ll know that we attach the descriptor “good” to this Friday. “Good Friday.” It would have seemed an impossible stretch if you had been there on the day. If asked to give your own word you might have chosen “tragic”, “awful”, “brutal”, “cruel”, “ruthless”, “barbaric”. If of […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/friday/feed/ 0 4743 Sunday: Afraid yet filled with joy… https://brianharrisauthor.com/sunday-afraid-yet-filled-with-joy/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/sunday-afraid-yet-filled-with-joy/#respond Sat, 08 Apr 2023 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4240 “So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples.” Matt 28:8 Have you been at a wedding where the groom cries, and the bride, and the parents, and granny – and as they do they all tell you how happy they are. Emotions are funny […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/sunday-afraid-yet-filled-with-joy/feed/ 0 4240 Friday: Love so amazing… https://brianharrisauthor.com/love-so-amazing/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/love-so-amazing/#comments Thu, 06 Apr 2023 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4231 This Easter reflection is from my book, Could this be God? It is the first of the three posts for this Easter weekend: Friday; Saturday; Sunday. Don’t know if you have ever been face to face with a little child who insists on asking ‘Why?’ No matter what answer you give, it’s immediately followed by […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/love-so-amazing/feed/ 1 4231 Easter as challenge more than comfort… https://brianharrisauthor.com/easter-as-challenge-more-than-comfort/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/easter-as-challenge-more-than-comfort/#respond Sat, 16 Apr 2022 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=3722 Back in 1950 Sir Norman Anderson famously wrote: “Easter is not primarily a comfort but a challenge. Its message is either the supreme fact in history or else a gigantic hoax.” Anderson goes on to explore the evidence for the resurrection forcefully arguing that unless it is factual, the entire foundation for Christianity is based […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/easter-as-challenge-more-than-comfort/feed/ 0 3722 On doing what you can… https://brianharrisauthor.com/on-doing-what-you-can/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/on-doing-what-you-can/#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2022 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=3716 Perhaps this Easter you will read the Mark 14 account of the woman who pours perfume over Jesus. Lest that doesn’t sound like an especially exciting story line, grab hold of this. She used the entire bottle which had cost more than a year’s salary. While we are not certain how many dollars that was […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/on-doing-what-you-can/feed/ 2 3716 On what we don’t hear… https://brianharrisauthor.com/on-what-we-dont-hear/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/on-what-we-dont-hear/#respond Sat, 02 Apr 2022 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=3689 I’m due to preach from Matthew 16:21 where Jesus announces his suffering and death. Often that’s how we summarise that verse (the heading in my Bible is “Jesus predicts his death”), but actually if you look at it more closely you will spot that it also predicts Jesus’ resurrection on the third day. I wonder […]

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