Emphasis Preaching Journal

Each year about this time, we in the church are fond of making a misplaced analogy. Tennyson wrote, "In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." Perhaps if he had observed the contemporary American church, he would have written, "In the spring a preacher's fancy turns to thoughts of nature and Easter." Again and again each March or April, we see trotted out the symbolic connection between the event we celebrate on Easter -- Christ's resurrection -- and the season in which we celebrate it -- springtime.