CHRISTIANITY'S KEYSTONE
Scripture: John 19:31-42, Mark 15:47, Mark 16:2-3, Mark 16:5-8, Mark 16
Christianity's Keystone
Robert Dawson
John 19:31-42; Mark 15:47; Mark 16.2-8; John 20:2-10
Many of you may be wondering why I have this full three-inch binder on platform today. Don't panic. It is not my sermon notes for this morning, but it is roughly a year's worth of Sunday Morning Sermons. Add in Wednesday's messages and you have twice the amount of material we have covered in our messages over the last year. Two large notebooks. Each notebook 350-375 pages each, over 700 pages combined. That's a lot of sermon notes!
- On Wednesdays we have preached through Ezra, Haggai, Nehemiah and are working our way through Corinthians, among other things.
- On Sunday mornings we have traversed parts of all four Gospels as we journeyed through the life of our Savior. Though we did not look at every narrative or teaching we have gotten a bird's eye view of our Savior's life and ministry as we saw His deeds and listened to His Words.
Over the last few weeks we have walked with our Savior through death's dark valley. We have immersed ourselves in the Passion Week of Christ. We watched Jesus with His disciples in the upper room, His excruciatingly intense prayer session in Gethsemane, His betrayal and abandonment by His disciples as well as His trials and crucifixion.
Nothing we have said or heard this past year, or the past 13½ years, matters if not for what we are going to preach on today, the resurrection. Apart from the resurrection of Jesus Christ everything we have said would be nothing more than interesting stories and lessons with good ethical principles but not eternal life.
If Jesus' story closes with the cross, then it is not much of a story. It is a dead end because death is victorious, and Jesus is not Lord.
Dr. Danny Akin, in his commentary on Mark's Gospel, says, ''I have a friend who is an atheist or, at least, an agnostic. When he and I were visiting, I asked him, ''What is the bottom line when it comes to Christianity?'' He responded, ...
Robert Dawson
John 19:31-42; Mark 15:47; Mark 16.2-8; John 20:2-10
Many of you may be wondering why I have this full three-inch binder on platform today. Don't panic. It is not my sermon notes for this morning, but it is roughly a year's worth of Sunday Morning Sermons. Add in Wednesday's messages and you have twice the amount of material we have covered in our messages over the last year. Two large notebooks. Each notebook 350-375 pages each, over 700 pages combined. That's a lot of sermon notes!
- On Wednesdays we have preached through Ezra, Haggai, Nehemiah and are working our way through Corinthians, among other things.
- On Sunday mornings we have traversed parts of all four Gospels as we journeyed through the life of our Savior. Though we did not look at every narrative or teaching we have gotten a bird's eye view of our Savior's life and ministry as we saw His deeds and listened to His Words.
Over the last few weeks we have walked with our Savior through death's dark valley. We have immersed ourselves in the Passion Week of Christ. We watched Jesus with His disciples in the upper room, His excruciatingly intense prayer session in Gethsemane, His betrayal and abandonment by His disciples as well as His trials and crucifixion.
Nothing we have said or heard this past year, or the past 13½ years, matters if not for what we are going to preach on today, the resurrection. Apart from the resurrection of Jesus Christ everything we have said would be nothing more than interesting stories and lessons with good ethical principles but not eternal life.
If Jesus' story closes with the cross, then it is not much of a story. It is a dead end because death is victorious, and Jesus is not Lord.
Dr. Danny Akin, in his commentary on Mark's Gospel, says, ''I have a friend who is an atheist or, at least, an agnostic. When he and I were visiting, I asked him, ''What is the bottom line when it comes to Christianity?'' He responded, ...
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