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Scripture Reading: Acts 13:26-30 . Message Illustration: Recently, as I was out in a neighborhood taking our Resurrection Sunday seed packets door to door, I came across a young boy and his sister who were playing on the sidewalk outside their home. The young boy (who couldn’t have been any more than…

Matthew 28:1–6 (ESV) Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was…

We all have expectations. You came to this time with us with expectations. As we gather for hearing the message you have an expectation about what will happen. I do as well. Life is full of expectations. Sometimes we are disappointed in life. Life does not go as planned. We are disappointed. We may feel…

Intro Easter Sunday What is today all about. Why do we gather? Jesus is resurrected from the dead. But what is the significance of this? What does this matter in today’s world? Have you found yourself in a place where your love for the Lord has perhaps waned. You are not as interested, not as fascinated…

Good morning! It’s always good to see you and be with you and sing with you, but especially on Easter. If we haven’t met before my name is Chris, I’m the pastor of Gateway Chapel, we’re a church on mission to plant churches and make disciples who hear, love, and obey Jesus. And a little something about…

3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 Then he appeared…

(S1) Mary Magdalene the first to experience the resurrection—Outside the empty tomb the risen Christ stood before FULLY ALIVE! Were her tear-soaked eyes playing tricks on her? The first April fool’s? “Teacher,” she calls him, yet we know he was to her so much more; the one who saved her. Jesus the one…

I . Intro . Reminder ( Titus 3:3-7 ) A . I have trouble remembering things . 1. Any of you notice that? 2. I don’t know why but sometimes things just slip my mind. 3. There have been times when I did not remember what I went into the kitchen for. B . I think it’s scientifically safe to say that the older…

Easter — He is risen! “Tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me” ( Matt 28.10 ) 40 days of coming and going from Easter to the Ascension Jesus meets the disciples in Galilee, on “the mountain to which [he] had directed them” ( Matt 28.16 ) 10 days from Easter to Pentecost When they saw…

In these next view moments what are you expecting? Do you believe that your life can be changed by what we are sharing together this day? How do you view the world ? This is a tricky question. The expectations of the world is probably what we will see. We must be careful that we do not tend to any extreme…

The concentration camp at Dachau was liberated on a Sunday in April 1945. One week later, Greek and Serbian Orthodox prisoners celebrated Easter in the camp barracks. Priests wore makeshift vestments over their blue and white striped prison uniforms. They sang the liturgy, read the Scriptures, and even…

It’s Easter and sometime people will say, how can you come up with a new Easter message every year. I mean it’s the same story… it doesn’t change. It’s kind of like all the different Titanic movies… in each one of them, the Titanic sinks. Easter is the same no matter how you tell the story but, I love…

Key Quote : The resurrection is God’s dramatic way of saying to us: ‘This is what I’m like. This is what I’ve done. And this is what I’m going to do.’ —N.T. Wright Prayer: “Lord thank you for Easter Sunday. Thank you for giving your Son so that we may have eternal life and salvation. Revive us O Lord,…

This past week I finished reading the book Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright, and I’d happily recommend it to you all. One of the topics he brought up in his closing chapter was the amount of time we as Christians spend on Christmas, and how little we spend on Easter. For weeks leading up to Christmas…

The out-of-placeness and the feeling that something is not quite right about stay-at-home Easter 2020 might actually give us a closer glimpse of what that very first Easter Sunday was like.

Intro Good morning, Gateway Chapel! Scripture Pray Intro Jim Gaffigan Easter spending—projected to break records at more than 17 billion dollars this year—is also significant, though not necessarily religiously motivated. Americans even spend more on candy for Easter than for Halloween. The average American…

In our lives we all have had those moments where a voice over a phone or a voice from across a room has gotten our attention. And it is because that voice is a voice that is familiar to our ears. I was in a restaurant one time and a group of people were talking a few tables over and a voice began to…

Easter Changes Us and Everything Else Life Marches Victorious Over Death The way we live in the present is shaped by what we understand about the future. The moment Adam and Eve sinned, nothing would ever be the same. Death was unleashed on humanity, and it reigned without mercy and without challenge…

This morning we are going to be doing something a little different than normal. Kids can you come to the front one more time before you head to kids Church. We just saw how Jesus can wash way all of your sins like the penny when you ask Jesus into your heart. You know that Jesus die for you and that…

Misunderstanding the Body Confusion over the body is nothing new. In our culture today we see a misinformed generation that is promoting that we are capable of deciding how we are made depending on how we feel. What this leads to is a crisis in identity for the people of the country as well as the people…

Welcome Good morning again everyone! He is Risen! (He is risen indeed) This morning we remember the amazing truth that Jesus rose from the dead. It reminds us that we are not lost in our sin and that if we believe in Christ death itself is defeated for us. It really is a great day and a great thing to…

(S1) Why we’re here…Easter—The Greatest News Ever (S2) — Jesus is Risen Three objectives 1. Visit the tomb… 2. Identify the miracle(s)… 3. The significance of the resurrection of Jesus for us… Can what happened on this particular morning make a difference in our lives? It didn’t start out that way for…

The Dawn Of A New Day 1 “Come, let us return to the Lord ; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up. 2 After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him. 1 Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first…

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness,…