Christ Community Brookside
Risen King- 10:00am & ON DEMAND
Luke 24:1-12 ESV
Title: Risen King
Scripture: Luke 24:1-12
Speaker: Bill Gorman, BillG@ChristCommunityKC.org
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>> The empty tomb should move us
>> The empty tomb moves us from doubt to marvel
>> The empty tomb moves us from marvel to belief
"Unless we come to see our spiritual blindness and our need for God’s help, we are all, like Paul, living good lives primarily for ourselves, in order to stay in control of our lives…. Did the resurrection happen? Yes, but you will only be able to accept it only if you let it confront not only your reason and head but also your self-image and the commitments of your heart."
- Tim Keller, Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter
>> The empty tomb moves us from belief to joy
>> Are you just fascinated or are you worshipping?
“When we try to keep within us an area that is our own, we try to keep an area of death. Therefore, in love, He claims all. There’s no bargaining with Him.” - C. S. Lewis, “A Slip of the Tongue”
Make no mistake: if he rose at all
It was as His body;
If the cell’s dissolution did not reverse, the molecule reknit,
The amino acids rekindle,
The Church will fall....
The same hinged thumbs and toes
The same valved heart
That—pierced—died, withered, paused, and then regathered
Out of enduring Might
New strength to enclose.
Let us not mock God with metaphor,
Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence,
Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the faded
Credulity of earlier ages:
Let us walk through the door.
The stone is rolled back, not papier-mache,
Not a stone in a story,
But the vast rock of materiality that in the slow grinding of
Time will eclipse for each of us
The wide light of day.
—John Updike, “Seven Stanzas at Easter”