Woodbury Church of Christ Sermons

Feelings of confusion, discouragement and being overwhelmed aren't uncommon for Christians. If these are left unchecked we can find ourselves on the verge of giving up on church, faith and even God.

Here's the truth, there is hope! Paul the Apostle points us to something we need to do or gain but to something we already have! 

We have a pretty strained relationship with death. The English language has about 100 different wants to avoid even saying the word. However, one of the basic ways the resurrection of Jesus should transform our lives is without our relationship with the Great Unknown. If Jesus came back, we can believe we will too. 

Sin isn't something fun that God is just keeping us from - sin is something deadly God is protecting us from. Because of the resurrection, the relational dynamic we have with sin has completely changed - Sin, even the sin in your life, is just a bully and you can say no!

There's a pervasive misconception that Christianity is mostly about keeping some difficult, maybe impossible and definitely outdated, rules. But that idea doesn't come from the Bible itself. The early Christian writers had experienced an incredible shift in what life was all about. The resurrection life is not about achieving something that needs to be done, it’s about adjusting to something that has already been done.

Most of us have experienced tragedy that deeply affected us and made us shift our thinking about the world and the way it works. As a result, we may have become guarded and more fearful. Jesus spoke to people that didn’t think the world was the way it should be and he gave them what, at first glance, seems like strange advice. 

He told them that the way to a better life was by “serving everyone”, “loving your enemies” and even “losing your life”.This doesn’t just seem counter-intuitive, it seems crazy. But Jesus was about to do something that validated the crazy things he taught people to do. Jesus was going to shift the world once again.