Easter 2023 – Week 1 | The Resurrection

Many of us have felt the tug of two conflicting doubts: church can seem like a group hug of good feelings with no answers, and the idea that someone rose from the dead sounds either impossible or irrelevant to the mistakes and regrets that haunt us. Add the weight of past failures, the fear that our faith might be wishful thinking, and the question of whether hope extends beyond this life. This message traces how the resurrection addresses reason, conscience, and the heart — the empty tomb, repeated eyewitness testimony, and the changed lives that followed. It shows how an event like this reorients identity, silences guilt, and gives the courage to live differently now because the future is secure. Expect clear, careful argument and tender honesty about doubt and shame, ending in an invitation to consider a claim that overturned a man who once opposed it and could still overturn the way you see everything.