Easter Sincerity

by Pastor Debra Bronkema |April 21, 2025 | connect.faith, Everyday Spirituality: The Blog

April 21, 2025

Easter Sincerity

1 Corinthians 5:6b-8

5:6b Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all of dough?

5:7 Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough, as you really are unleavened. For our paschal lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed.

5:8 Therefore, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Easter Sincerity 

Sincerity.  It’s not a word I hear often. The dictionary defines sincerity as the quality of being free from pretense, deceit or hypocrisy. It’s about being genuine, authentic, truthful. In our passage sincerity is about recognizing that the foundation of Easter changes everything. We are in a new day, a new time, ready for a new life that proclaims -  evil did not have the last word!  We are celebrating the chance to begin again – to live differently going forward. We can choose to lift up and embody love from the inside out, with sincerity and truth. 

The opportunity to live a transformed life, to begin again to spread love in this broken world – this is a valuable message to proclaim this Easter season.  We are surrounded by the evils of greed, of hate for those who are different than us, of self-absorption to the point of isolationism. To move forward in sincere expressions of love that reach out can seem naïve – and yet…this may very well be the way forward that brings back the ability to breathe in the center of our souls.

So – let us celebrate that Christ is Risen with sincerity and truth! Alleluia!

Happy Easter Season! 

Reflection Questions: 

1)    Think about yesterday – when did you have the chance to practice love? 

2)    Where does the idea of living in sincerity take you in your imagining of the day ahead?

3)    The Resurrection breaks into the order of things as we know it and says there’s a different way forward. Can you imagine that making a difference in your life now? 

Prayer:Dear God, We are thankful that you have shown us, in the transforming good news of the resurrection, that what looks like evil winning isn’t that at all. Help us to be agents of your sincerity and truth based on your incredible love.  In Jesus Name, Amen