Broadcast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Confessing Jesus - Part 1\n John 20:19-23\n 04\/13\/2026\n\n\n 19 On the evening of that day, the first day of the\n week, the doors being locked where the disciples\n were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood\n among them and said to them, ``Peace be with\n you.''\n 20 When he had said this, he showed them his hands\n and his side. Then the disciples were glad when\n they saw the Lord.\n 21 Jesus said to them again, ``Peace be with you. As\n the Father has sent me, even so I am sending\n you.''\n 22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them and\n said to them, ``Receive the Holy Spirit.\n 23 If you forgive the sins of anyone, they are\n forgiven; if you withhold forgiveness from anyone,\n it is withheld.'' (ESV)\n\n Historically the Church does not look at Easter as a single\n day, but as an entire season, forty-nine days of celebrating the\n resurrection of Jesus. Therefore, yesterday We prayed the\n historic Collect or prayer of the Church for the Second Sunday of\n Easter:\n Almighty God, grant that we who have celebrated the\n Lord's resurrection may by Your grace confess in our\n life and conversation that Jesus is Lord and God;\n through the same Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and\n reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and\n forever.\n\n\n Our Gospel lesson for the Second Sunday of Easter has three\n parts. In the first part, Jesus comes to the disciples and gives\n them, and the Church, the authority to forgive and retain sins.\n\n On the evening of that day, the first day of the week,\n the doors being locked where the disciples were for\n fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and\n said to them, ``Peace be with you.'' When he had said\n this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the\n disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said\n to them again, ``Peace be with you. As the Father has\n sent me, even so I am sending you.'' And when he had\n said this, he breathed on them and said to them,\n ``Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of\n anyone, they are forgiven; if you withhold forgiveness\n from anyone, it is withheld.''\n\n\n This is the purpose of the Church, to proclaim the good news\n that Jesus died to pay the price of our sin, only to rise again\n to give to us eternal life. Where sins are forgiven, death is\n overcome.\n\n May our Lord grant us faith to trust in His Word, that we\n have life because Jesus died and rose again. Amen.<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 13, 2026 Broadcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turn-your-radio-on-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4742"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4747,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions\/4747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}