Brand New | Transforming Our Pictures of Jesus | Luke 24:13-35 - Clint Leavitt

Sermon Resources: 1. "One Nation Under God," by Jon McNaughton, 2014 2. "Head of Christ," by Warner Sallman, 1941 3. Digital reconstruction of first century Jewish man: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3359548/Is-real-face-JESUS-Experts-use-forensics-reveal-Christ-looked-like.html 4. "I want to say to you that most of our brokenness cannot be simply taken away. It’s there. And the deepest pain that you and I suffer is often the pain that stays with us all our lives. It cannot be simply solved, fixed, done away with…What are we then told to do with that pain, with that brokenness, that anguish, that agony that continually rises up in our heart? We are called to befriend it.Suffering is a period in your life in which true faith can emerge, a naked faith, a faith that comes to life in the midst of great pain. The grain, indeed, has to die in order to bear fruit and when you dare to stand in your suffering, your life will bear fruit in ways that are far beyond your own predications or understanding. Spend some time each morning doing nothing but simply sitting in the presence of God and praying, “Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner.” Gradually, God will enter your heart in a new way and bring new light into your struggle.” -Henri Nouwen, The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish To Freedom 5. “We do not want you to be ignorant, brothers and sisters, of the affliction we experienced in Asia, for we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death so that we would rely not on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.” -2 Corinthians 1:8-9