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Christ Community - Leawood Campus

Mark - April 20 | Leawood

Easter - Jesus Is Alive! - 7:45, 9:00, 10:30 AM & ON-DEMAND

Locations & Times

14200 Kenneth Rd, Leawood, KS 66224, United States

Sunday 7:00 AM

Colossians 1:15-23 CSB

Title: Easter - Jesus Is Alive
Reference: Colossians 1:15-23
Speaker: Ben Beasley, BenB@cckc.church

When was the last time beauty arrested you?

The risen Jesus will restore beauty forever.

– Jesus is the source and the center of all beauty

No one has ever seen God, but God the only Son has made him known. Humanity was made as the climax of the first creation (Gen. 1:26–27): The true humanity of Jesus is the climax of the history of creation, and at the same time the starting-point of the new creation. From all eternity Jesus had, in his very nature, been the ‘image of God’, reflecting perfectly the character and life of the Father. ~ N.T. Wright, Colossians

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

– Only Jesus stepped into and was not stopped by our brokenness.

For many today, the resurrection claim is dead on arrival. Unlike our gullible 1st-century forebears, we modern scientific folk can’t possibly believe in miracles like that! But [MIT professor Ian] Hutchinson explains that science cannot disprove the resurrection because miracles aren’t something that science is equipped to address. He explains: ‘Natural science describes the normal reproducible working of the world of nature. Miracles like the resurrection are inherently abnormal. … Contrary to increasingly popular opinion, science is not our only means for accessing truth. In the case of Jesus’ resurrection, we must consider the historical evidence.’ ~ Rebecca McLaughlin, Is Easter Unbelievable?

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If there was no reason to believe that his solid body had returned to life, no one would have thought him, against expectation, resurrected from the dead. Certainly visions of or perceived encounters with a postmortem Jesus would not by themselves, have supplied such reason. ~ Dale Allison

– Jesus has already started restoring beauty now

Where in your life has brokenness overtaken beauty?

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