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There is always a risk when today’s Christians encounter stories about miracles. We tend to think they don’t apply because they don’t happen quite that way anymore or that we have done them proper honor once we have noticed God’s power in them. This miracle, though, has many applications and much to ponder. It is nothing less them a reason to say I believe in the Church.
Here are Points to Ponder for Life Group.
This is the story of what happened immediately after the risen Lord ascended into heaven. It is the record of a church in crisis. This sermon seeks to make the dynamics of the crisis more apparent to the listener. It also moves into an application to today’s Church as it seeks to live in light of Easter.
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Isaiah gives a vision of the resurrection that God will provide when Christ comes again. This sermon examines the images that Isaiah offers in the vision. It sees the striking, hope-filled prophetic pictures through the tears that Isaiah says God wipes away. Easter is God fulfilling this prophecy in Christ.
The stakes are high for this sermon. To speak on Easter Day into a pandemic is a high responsibility. This sermon explores this Scripture in two parts. The first part examines what an authentic telling of the Easter story looks like. The second part examines what an authentic response to that story looks like in the heart of the Christian. The Lord is risen! He is risen indeed!
There are far more non-sequiturs that happen than we know. Some are comical. Others are serious. Still others often happen unnoticed right there inside us. This is a sermon that seeks to undo the most fundamental non sequitur that regularly lives inside of Christians: the belief in death. Listen in to hope more deeply in life after Easter.
(A Sermon Based on 1 Cor. 15:8-11)
Ten times Paul refers to himself in this tiny section of Scripture! Don’t think it’s because it’s narcissistic. He’s not. Paul wants us to do something more than hear what he’s saying. He wants us to see what he’s saying. And why does he want that? Because naturally, we fight what we most need: grace. Grace fights back and claims our hearts. Listen in!