White River Christian Church
Why Jesus | Easter
Sermon notes for weekend worship service April 3 & 4, 2021
Locations & Times
White River Christian Church - Noblesville Campus
1685 N 10th St, Noblesville, IN 46060, United States
Saturday 5:00 PM
Sunday 9:00 AM
Sunday 11:00 AM
1st Unexpected Reality:
No one trusted Jesus when he said he'd "rise from the dead."
No one trusted Jesus when he said he'd "rise from the dead."
“Time out -- I don’t care what you claim happened 2000 years ago, let’s deal with the facts -- dead people don’t rise from the grave!”
“No one would have ever thought up the resurrection, because nobody believed such a thing possible. Nowhere in paganism, nowhere in Judaism, nowhere in any worldview or philosophy did anybody ever conceive, posit, contemplate, or even suggest that such a thing could - or ever had - happened.”
~ N.T. Wright
~ N.T. Wright
“The early Christians did not invent the empty tomb and the 'meetings' or 'sightings' of the risen Jesus in order to explain a faith they already had. They developed that faith because of what they saw, because of what they did not think was going to happen - or could happen - actually did happen.”
~ N.T. Wright
~ N.T. Wright
2nd Unexpected Reality:
The resurrection of Jesus ended religion.
The resurrection of Jesus ended religion.
“And suddenly, the curtain in the sanctuary of the temple was torn down the middle."
3rd Unexpected Reality:
It can happen to you!
It can happen to you!
God can bring you to life from any place you feel is dead and give you a brand new beginning!