He is risen! Watch as Pastor Clint teaches on Luke 24, and the transformative ways that the Easter story shakes us out of our comfort and into a new sort of life.
Sermon Resources:
1. “He is the hinge of history. He is the hope for the oppressed. He is the inspiration of the dying. He is the King of kings, the Lord of lords. He is the greatest teacher who ever lived, the greatest mind that ever thought. He sparked the greatest movement ever spread. He offered the greatest gift ever given. He alone mastered life. He alone conquered death. He alone overcame sin. He alone becomes more present in each passing year. He is the son of God, the Savior of the world, the victorious risen King.” -John Ortberg
2. Study on hopelessness in young Americans: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/10/51percent-of-young-americans-say-they-feel-down-depressed-or-hopeless.html
3. “If your Christian faith is not shot through with all sorts of reasoning and thinking, it’ll never last through the ups and downs of life in this world. Christian faith is certainly more than reasoning and thinking, but it’s not less.” -Tim Keller
4. “If Easter means that Jesus Christ is only raised in a spiritual sense, then Easter is only about me and finding a new dimension in my personal spiritual life. But if Jesus Christ is truly risen from the dead, Christianity becomes good news for the whole world, not just for me, news which warms our hearts precisely because it isn’t just about warming hearts. Easter means that in a world where injustice, violence, and degradation are endemic that God is not prepared to tolerate any such thing. And that we will work and plan with all the energy of God to implement the victory of Jesus over them all. Take away Easter and Marx was right to accuse Christianity of ignoring the problems of the material world. Take away Easter and Freud was right to say Christianity is wish fulfillment, and Nietzsche was right to say it is for wimps.” -N.T. Wright
5. “To repent doesn't mean to feel sorry about, to regret. It means to turn, to turn around 180 degrees. It means to undergo a complete change of mind, heart, direction. Turn away from madness, cruelty, shallowness, blindness. Turn toward the tolerance, compassion, sanity, hope, justice that we all have in us at our best.” -Frederick Buechner
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