Hope Community Church
• Hope's Coffee Café - coffee/tea bar in the foyer from 9:30-9:55 AM
• Child Care (ages 6wks-5yrs) & Kids Church (K-5th Grade) provided!
Easter Resurrection Celebration
"The Resurrection and the Life"
(John 11)
Predominate world-views regarding death:
• Termination (Life ends in death)
• Transition (Life continues after death)
Ways of addressing death:
• We can mock it
Ways of addressing death:
• We can mock it
• We can ignore it
"I don't know what happens when I die, and I don't care."
—Bill Maher
• We can explore it
• We can try to postpone it
• We accept it
• We prepare for it
Christians rest their HOPE in the person and promises of Jesus Christ.
Because of Jesus we can have:
1. Hope in spite of our sicknesses
John 11:1-6 NKJV
Because of Jesus we can have:
1. Hope in spite of our sicknesses
2. Hope in spite of our sorrows
John 11:11-15, 20-27, 32-35 NKJV
Because of Jesus we can have:
1. Hope in spite of our sicknesses
2. Hope in spite of our sorrows
3. Hope in spite of our shortsightedness
John 11:38-45 NKJV
Cemetery =
resting place
Where is your hope?