Easter 2021 – Week 1 | The Resurrection

Easter morning brings a strange problem: many people either dismiss the resurrection as myth or accept it as a distant historical fact that changes nothing. Skeptical neighbors, curious relatives, and well-meaning friends want proof — and even those who call themselves believers sometimes treat the story like another item on a history quiz rather than a life-changing event. This message walks Matthew’s resurrection account carefully, pointing to three concrete signs in the text — the unlikely women witnesses, the disciples’ honest doubts, and the radically changed lives that followed — to argue the empty tomb was not a polite legend but an earth-shaking reality. The sermon doesn’t stop at evidence; it presses on to what the resurrection claims to do now: reframe death, give a present companion in suffering, and redirect our future. Expect clear historical argument and an invitation to let an ancient earthquake shape the shape of your life today.