Peter’s Pentecost sermon addressed to those familiar with
the story of salvation is a fitting text for the first Sunday after Easter.
Known by those “in the know” as low Sunday, it is the day when the pew and
parking space of the faithful is not occupied by the twice a year crowd. Maybe if the story was more dramatic people
would stick around for another round sans trumpets, choirs, lilies and eggs
hidden by bunnies but the truth is the story could not be more out of the box.
It was impossible for death to hold him in its power is how Peter puts it and I
can’t imagine it gets more dramatic than that. The message has had over two
thousand years to mature and so while preachers and every week pew people might
be tempted to lament a Sunday with space we might be better served by going
back to the beginning when even those who knew the story had to hear it again.
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