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1. Because He Lives
1 Corinthians 15:12-34
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Bill Bouknight
My favorite day of the entire year is Easter. To declare the Good News of resurrection is the ultimate thrill for a preacher. It's even better than being a baseball fan in Yankee Stadium or a mountain climber on Mount Everest or a blues singer on Beale Street. No news is quite so good as "He lives!" 1995 will always be a special year for me because I have had three Easters. The first one I shared ...
2. A Note to Fearful Hearts
1 Corinthians 15:12-34
Sermon
Harold Warlick
The frail, tired woman had experienced a sleepless night in her hospital bed. Aged wrinkles marked her face as she prepared to greet another day of tests, medications, and well-meaning visitors. It was early. The little rays of sunshine had just begun to dance through the cracks in the window blinds. She heard him next door. Every morning he practiced the same routine. He was a preacher. His cler...
3. Repairing Our Lives
1 Corinthians 15:19-26
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Richard Gribble
Once upon a time, there was a king who ruled over a small kingdom that wasn't powerful nor was it known for anything of any great value. But, the king did possess a large and perfect diamond that had been in his family for many generations. He kept it on display for all to see and appreciate and people came from all over the country to admire this rare and precious gem. People from other lands, he...
4. Life After Life
1 Corinthians 15:12-20
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David E. Leininger
In an ever-lengthening pastoral ministry, I have had occasion to officiate more funerals than I can count. Some are more memorable than others. My father-in-law's, for example. He was 76-yearsold and suffered from Alzheimer's. He was a good husband, father, brother, friend, Pop-pop, even in-law (and, no doubt, I sometimes made that difficult). Fred Eaton served his country with distinction as a pi...
5. Raised to New Life Today
1 Corinthians 15:12-20
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Richard Gribble
William Wilberforce was a privileged man. He was given a second chance; he was in many ways resurrected. Because of his efforts the world is a much more compassionate and just place. Wilberforce was born in 1759 in Hull, England, the son of a wealthy merchant. As a youth he led a rather dissolute life; his father's money allowed him access to people and things, yet he used his privilege to his adv...
6. But…!
1 Corinthians 15:19-26
Sermon
Steven E. Albertin
I think anyone who has tried to teach a class or make a presentation to a group has experienced something like this. You have a perfectly planned lesson. You have your presentation all worked out. Then as you begin, there is always this one student, this one participant, this one character in the audience who interrupts you and begs to differ with what you have to say. "But pastor, what about thi...
7. We've Got a Friend in High Places
1 Corinthians 15:20-26, 28, Ephesians 1:15-23
Sermon
King Duncan
It was one of those events that you can never forget witnessing. A skyscraper was going up. Hundreds of people paused daily to glance up at it. One day they watched as a giant metal beam was raised to be placed high on the enormous steel skeleton of the skyscraper.  And then something terrifying occurred. As the girder came near, a workman leaned out from the sixteenth floor to seize it.  The spe...
8. A World Without Easter
1 Corinthians 15:12-20
Sermon
James Merritt
Dr. Billy Graham once told Time magazine, "If I were an enemy of Christianity, I would aim right at the Resurrection, because that is the heart of Christianity." Well Dr. Graham knew what he was talking about because more and more theologians, those who admit to be liberal, and even some who claim to be conservative, are taking dead aim at the truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  The found...
Sermon
Raymond Gibson
Two weeks before his first heart attack in 1955, President Dwight Eisenhower summoned evangelist Billy Graham to the presidential retreat at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. After nearly four hours of conversation, the President suddenly looked Graham squarely in the eye, and said, "Billy, I want you to tell me why you believe in heaven, and why you believe in the afterlife." Dr. Graham declares Preside...
10. Is It True?
1 Corinthians 15:19-26
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David E. Leininger
The Joyful Noiseletter, that wonderfully hilarious monthly look at all things church-y, some time back noted a pastor who approached an older gentleman in his congregation and addressed him with the traditional Easter greeting, "Christ is risen!" But instead of giving the pastor the traditional response, "He is risen indeed," the man replied, "Yupper-dee-doodle!" Good for him. This is a yupper-de...
11. The Christian's Wild Card
1 Corinthians 15:12-34
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
It was Easter Saturday, and Mommy was sitting at the kitchen table coloring Easter eggs with her small son and daughter. She told them about the true meaning of Easter, and taught them the traditional Easter morning greeting, "He is risen!" and the response, "He is risen indeed!" The children planned to surprise their father, a Presbyterian minister, with this greeting on Easter Sunday morning by...
12. We Will Be Changed
Ezekiel 37:1-14, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58
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Lori Wagner
What is in a name? Nothing defines us in our lives more than what we are named. We are given a name, but through our lives, we also take on other names. We know Jesus by many names: wonderful, counselor, almighty God, everlasting Father, prince of peace, as Handel’s oratorio tells us. But we too have names that define us. In the scriptures, often the name that one is born with is not the name Go...
13. Trust Your Intuition
1 Corinthians 15:1-11, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58
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Lori Wagner
Ever drive down the road, your wind wandering, and suddenly you realize you are much further along than you thought you were? You’ve taken turns, made stops, but realize that you’ve actually been driving toward your destination on autopilot? Your brain instinctively kept following the path you knew, even though you were not consciously plugged in nor was the the rubber of your rational mind hittin...
14. I Shall Rise Again!
I Corinthians 15:19-26 · Luke 24:1-12
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King Duncan
For more than 1,400 years, a Cathedral dedicated to St Paul has stood at the highest point in the City of London. The cathedral is one of the most famous and most recognizable sights of this great city with so many historic sites. St. Paul’s was designed by the famous architect Sir Christopher Wren after the Great Fire of London destroyed an earlier cathedral that stood on the same site. Before ...
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Mark Ellingsen
If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died. (vv.19-20) Christ is risen! But is it true? Where’s the proof? The world and life-experience say there is no proof. In fact, if the great existentialist philosopher of the twentieth century Albert Camus is right, there is...
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