Jesus Rose from the Dead?... Are You Serious??... Yes!!!

How can we know... for a fact... that Jesus really did rise? And why is that great news and possibly unsettling?

Matthew 27:57-28:20
Acts 2:32-36,17:30-31
Romans 1:3-4
1 Corinthians 15:22
Psalm 130:3
1 John 2:1

Sermon discussion topics for parents to use with their children:

• Why do we believe some people when they tell us something is real or it really happened?
• Why do the facts of Jesus' resurrection and the eyewitness accounts point to the fact that He did rise?
• Why do you and I need a risen Savior?

Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA

Acts: O Theophilus...

Who wrote the book of Acts and to whom was it written? History says it was written by Luke, but we don't know for sure. It was surely an eyewitness account because of the first-person style. It is formally called The Acts of the Apostles, but it really should be The Acts of Jesus, Part II!

Acts 1

Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA

What If? or What Is?

What if.... there was an infinite, all powerful God who loved you personally and deeply? What is the proof that that What If is in fact a What Is?

1 John 4
Romans 8:31-32
2 Corinthians 9:15

The infinite essential love of God, is, as it were, an infinite and eternal, mutual, holy, energy between the Father and the Son: a pure and holy act, whereby the Deity becomes, as it were, one infinite and unchangeable emotion of love proceeding from both the Father and the Son. This divine love has its seat in the Deity, as it is exercised within the Deity, or in God toward himself.Jonathan Edwards Heaven a World of Love

Sermon discussion topics for parents to use with their children:

• What was the What If that was outlined in the sermon?
• Why is that possibly so attractive?
• What is proof number one that was given?
• List some of these examples of God's love and goodness to you in your life.
• What is the Big proof that God loves us according to the passage?
• Why was/is God's Son so precious to Him?
• How hard would it be to give a Son?
• Can this God be trusted?

Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA

Mark: Proof, Hope, Reality, Power

Mark closes his book with the resurrection: which to us speaks powerfully of the truth and reality of a living Savior!

Mark 15:42-16:20,1:1,1:23-25,1:34,1:27,2:6-7,2:12,2:16,3:5-6,4:41
1 Corinthians 15:17,15:19,15:22
Acts 17:30-31,1:6
Hebrews 4:14-16
Ephesians 1:19-23,2:5-6

Sermon discussion topics for parents to use with their children:

• How does the resurrection give us proof?
• In what ways does it give us hope?
• How does it provide reality?
• How is the power of the resurrection at work in my life?

Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA

Resurrection, Really!

We Christians make a huge counter cultural claim: a man who was dead three days rose again and is still alive and that man was the Son of God. And we have proof!!

Luke 23:50-24:12,24:33-47
Matthew 28:4,12:38-40
1 Corinthians 15:6,15:20-26
Romans 1:3-4,4:24-25
Hebrews 9:27
2 Peter 1:16
Acts 1:8,1:21-23,2:30-33,3:13-16,3:19-21,4:1-3,4:9-10,4:13,4:19-21,4:33,5:17-18,5:28-32,5:41,17:31

Sermon discussion questions for parents to use with their children:

• What is the historical evidence for the resurrection?
• Why were the actions of Christ's enemies actually helpful in proving His resurrection?
• What is the significance of the actions and convictions of the apostles after the resurrection?
• What is the significance of the resurrection for us today and in the future?

Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA