When we look through the eyes of the first witnesses of Jesus’s resurrection, we can learn how God wants US to respond to Jesus’s resurrection today.
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Sermons on The Gospel
While it’s tempting to think of Jesus as simply a helpless victim of injustice, Scripture makes it clear that Jesus willingly chose to suffer and die for very specific reasons which we need to understand and properly respond to.
When we get stuck in a mess we don’t know how to come back from, God shows us His grace by teaching us how to truly repent; we start by calling our sin what it truly is, then change our actions, trusting in His goodness to take care of us. SHOW MORE …
It’s always been hard for people to believe that death can be defeated, that someone could rise from the dead. It was hard for Jesus’s own disciples to believe when it happened, it’s going to be hard for people today. Those of us who are convinced it happened must have patience with and sympathy for…
Before God’s happy ending for the world can come, the current dark spiritual forces that run the world must be dealt with. The Story tells us that Jesus will return to our earth to do just that, justly making war with these forces and defeating them forever so that He can establish God’s rule over…
Jesus’ followers realized soon after His resurrection that it wasn’t yet time for God’s kingdom to come to earth. Instead, Jesus intended for them to bear witness to the whole world of His victory over sin and death at the Cross and to the Kingdom still to come. The Holy Spirit came to empower them…
They way to insure that God’s Happy Ending for the world (the ultimate “win”) would happen was for the Messiah to lose his life. The Old Testament prophesied it and Jesus experienced it. His death freed his people from sin and brought them back to God. And the final shocking plot-twist was that Jesus was…