Easter 2026 | From Death to Life! | Pastor Tim Payne

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John Sullivan describes his massive Widowmaker heart attack with just a 5% chance of survival.

It starts with church noise. The welcome asks people to like the video, comment, ask for prayer, and settle in at Momentum Church. Then the room shifts into worship. Before the preaching moves on, John, called Johnny by his friend, comes up with a story named as resurrection and redemption. Shoreline Park is the doorway into it. The excerpt only gives a piece of that backstory, but it frames John through friendship, training, leadership, and the place where things began. Martha moves into the middle of the message. John points to the question of whether belief would let her see God's glory, then says the story shows why God works. He is not trying to put on a show. He says he is standing there so people will believe and God will be glorified, so the testimony keeps turning away from him. The stone is the image that sticks. When he says God is still rolling away stones, the sermon comes off the page and turns toward anyone listening. The room answers with praise. He names John Sullivan's dad, calls the timing fitting, and folds the testimony back into Easter worship. Then faith gets handled plainly. For skeptics who call faith a crutch or lean toward science, he argues that the resurrection rewards a closer look. Eyewitnesses matter to him. He gives thanks for the cross and the blood of Jesus, while saying Easter also means resurrection can happen in people. The tomb scene gets big and bright: a borrowed rich man's tomb, a sealed stone, people posted under pressure, then sudden light. Death does not get the last word. The landing is open. The church is a safe place for doubts and questions, with more stories promised and a plain call to come.

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An Easter sermon that treats resurrection as an event in the past and a question for the present.

Momentum Church shapes this Easter message around resurrection as both an event in the past and a claim that still asks for attention now. It opens with a welcome and a call to give God glory, then turns to John's story, using Shoreline Park, a trainer's leg day, and a father's…

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You get an Easter sermon that keeps coming back to the resurrection and the stone in front of the tomb.

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