Emphasis Preaching Journal

On this first Easter evening the doors aren't just shut. They're locked. Yet, "Jesus came and stood among them and said, 'Peace be with you.' " That's how Jesus deals with locked doors. Perhaps this is why Jesus, who tried many ways during his earthly ministry to explain who he was, called himself "the door."

In the Middle Ages the Carpenters' Guild chose as its motto "I am the door." They then turned a construction necessity into a religious virtue. They fashioned doors whose upper and lower panels created crosses on the doors they built.