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Christ Redeemer PCA | Hilton Head | 4.5.26

April 8, 2026·32 min·2 clips

Pastor Bill reframes the look Jesus gave Peter after his denial—not disappointment, but 'that's exactly why I came.'

The sermon starts with Mark. The church has been working through Mark and would normally be near chapter 6, but the preacher moves to Mark 16 for Easter. The reason is simple enough: the resurrection is not a nice ending tacked onto the story. It is the day Jesus wins and the grave loses its claim. He spends time with that victory. The preacher pictures the Father speaking to the Son with the same kind of rising command Jesus had spoken over others. That moment turns personal. The roar from the tomb is not just a line in a song. It is the voice that catches the preacher off guard. From there, the sermon turns inward. If Christ has gone into death and beaten it, then everything else has to sit under that victory. The application gets plain and close to home. Followers of Christ keep plugging ordinary comforts into places that need resurrection power, hoping a walk, a drink, or exercise can carry what only Christ can carry. The invitation is to come to Jesus and receive help the world cannot give. The resurrection also presses on people who are not followers of Christ. If Jesus did not rise, the preacher says the honest response is to eat, drink, and be merry because nothing else matters. But if he did rise, everything changes. The sermon asks listeners who are not followers of Christ to look into why this Jesus is remembered when other first-century false messiahs disappeared. Questions are welcome here. The closing prayer brings people with doubt, failure, and profound uncertainty before an infinite, eternal, all-wise, all-powerful, all-loving, all-good God. Grace gets the final word. Jesus is held out as freedom, life, and the call to be alive in him.

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A warm Easter sermon that treats the resurrection as reality, not ornament.

Christ Redeemer PCA frames Easter through Mark 16 and treats the resurrection as the story's hinge. The message keeps coming back to a simple claim: Jesus wins.

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