We are looking today at how the power of the resurrection will help us navigate politics. I wondered if when I announced that on Easter if it would sound odd to link the resurrection with politics. Those are such different things, different worlds. But I believe, like many of you, that God’s word gives instruction and guidance on every area of life; and that would have to include politics because it so profoundly affects our lives. Those who hope in the resurrection have the biblical responsibility to influence their government.

Would you like to know what the resurrection has for your relationships? Well, the rest of the world also wants to know what believing in Jesus does for your relationships. So since they are watching and wanting to see, for that here is our operating principle for all relationships, from good to bad, intimate to stranger, for those of us who hope in Christ: As Christ did for me.

Would you like to know what the resurrection has for your relationships? Well, the rest of the world also wants to know what believing in Jesus does for your relationships. So since they are watching and wanting to see, for that here is our operating principle for all relationships, from good to bad, intimate to stranger, for those of us who hope in Christ: As Christ did for me.

Hope, the confident expectation it can get better, it can still happen; and that belief is powerful. It gives energy to our body and soul. It can bring a smile in the most difficult situations and be what gets us up to try one more time. Almost anything can happen when we have hope and there is maybe nothing worse than losing it.

Hope, the confident expectation it can get better, it can still happen; and that belief is powerful. It gives energy to our body and soul. It can bring a smile in the most difficult situations and be what gets us up to try one more time. Almost anything can happen when we have hope and there is maybe nothing worse than losing it.

Join us for our Palm Sunday service.

Join us for our Palm Sunday service.

If you are new to the series, we’ve been looking at the biblical definition of the Gospel found in 1 Corinthians 15:1-8. In this definition, we have three clear pieces of the gospel, the first two we have already looked at: Christ died for our sins, and Christ was buried. So that brings us to the third piece, maybe the most exciting and hope filled piece of the gospel: the resurrection. Jesus Christ is alive! Let’s continue to study this great Gospel.

If you are new to the series, we’ve been looking at the biblical definition of the Gospel found in 1 Corinthians 15:1-8. In this definition, we have three clear pieces of the gospel, the first two we have already looked at: Christ died for our sins, and Christ was buried. So that brings us to the third piece, maybe the most exciting and hope filled piece of the gospel: the resurrection. Jesus Christ is alive! Let’s continue to study this great Gospel.

Last week in our efforts to study, to understand, to celebrate the gospel we looked at death. Christ died, Christ experienced death as a payment for our sins. His blood and death was substituted for ours, because by the power of God He could recover, while we could not. This second idea, burial at first glance maybe doesn’t seem so big. We might even wonder why it had to be stated. Seems kind of obvious and not really an addition to information we need in understanding the gospel. But it is very important to understanding that not only did He die, but He went to the place of the dead.