Easter Sunday Sermons

An examination of the necessity of the new birth as it appears in Resurrection Sunday sermons.

The wounded and risen Christ reveals himself through his atoning wounds, seeks out unbelieving hearts, and calls us through the written Word to believe and have resurrection life in Christ's name.

This sermon misuses Ezekiel 37 by stripping it of its covenantal-exilic context, turning a vision of God raising his judged people by Word and Spirit into a therapeutic message of hope over death, thereby weakening sin, Christ’s atoning work, and the urgent necessity of the new birth.

Easter does not proclaim the improvement for slaves within the bondage of sin, but instead the new birth of the dead into resurrection life through union with Christ.

This excerpt is wonderfully scriptural in showing Mary recognising the risen Christ only when he personally calls her by name, yet the sermon does not press upon the hearer that we too remain blind until Christ effectually calls us and gives us life.