My friends, we are part of a family, a new kind of family, a family forged out of resurrection…of miracle, and so a better kind of family than any other kind, a family steeped in new life. It is way past time we started acting and living more like the family we are…that we may become the family God desires we become.
Y’all, the risen Christ stands before you this Easter season offering grace and power, wonders and signs. These things may come with a cost because what it takes to achieve them is NOT what those who live in the kingdom of this world want, but the risen Christ stands before you, offering them. It’s up to YOU, it’s up to US, whether we’ll take what Christ offers or what someone else offers.
Don’t you wish a passion burned so strongly inside of you that it would motivate you to be willing to risk everything? That’s what your faith is supposed to be like; that’s what it’s supposed to do.
April 16, 2017 Sermon “Rewritten” Reading – Luke 24:1-12 24 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they went in, they did not find the body.[a] […]
Folks, we live in a time in which people are searching for hope. They can experience philosophical and political disagreements anywhere they go in our society. They can experience people selfishly demanding their own way anywhere else in society. They can experience stingy, exclusionary behavior anywhere else they go in society.
What they can’t get anywhere else, what they should be getting HERE, what they will flock here to receive, is the gospel of hope, the gospel of Jesus Christ, that reminds them that what they do MATTERS in the big picture.
Jesus gave us what we need to know…but he left it in our hands to DO SOMETHING with it…to be God’s family…to represent God’s family to all people throughout the earth. How will you respond?
Y’all, it’s so simple, and yet it’s the secret to life. Every time you try to live for yourself or a few select people who are in your family or are otherwise your favorites in life, you are rejecting the power of resurrection. ONLY when you choose your primary identity to be a follower of the RESURRECTED one will you truly live in response to resurrection, will you truly LIVE.