Mary! (Various Texts) Resurrection Sunday, April 5, 2026

April 8, 2026·37 min·3 clips

A preacher confesses he doesn't love preaching on Easter because the resurrection is 'too big' for any sermon to capture.

Resurrection Sunday overwhelms him. He starts there, admitting that Easter feels too large for any self-aware preacher to handle. The crucifixion and resurrection put two things in the room at once: divine love and human neglect. That is where the pressure lands. The empty tomb is not religious furniture, a denominational badge, or a Sunday-only doctrine that leaves ordinary life alone. What are you doing with it? The host keeps coming back to that question, and he does not make it soft. It lands on every professing Christian. Christ is not passive in this sermon. Jesus lays down his life willingly and defeats Satan, sin, death, and hell for his sheep. Then the warning comes. By the authority of the word of God, the host says it is terrifying to fall into the hands of the living God. But there is a remedy. At the cross, God's love meets mankind's neglect, and the hearer is pressed to run, bow down, and give life away. Isaiah names the problem plainly. God is holy, we are not, and the host rejects any gospel that puts the human self at the center. He gets confrontational fast. The therapeutic and prosperity gospel are treated as softer counterfeits, built around happiness, emotional well-being, and felt needs. That will not save anyone. Against that, he lifts up the living God and dares the listener not to come. The close turns into worship. The throne room gives the final word, with the slain Lamb receiving worship forever.

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A blunt Resurrection Sunday sermon that turns Easter into a daily question.

Pastor Jim centers Resurrection Sunday on God's immeasurable love and humanity's neglect, then presses on the question of what the empty tomb should mean in daily life.

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