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The Empty Tomb Premium Sermon

Contributed by PRO Premium on Oct 9, 2023

This sermon introduction focuses on the significance of the empty tomb as a symbol of Jesus' resurrection, providing hope and gratitude to believers.

Welcome church and happy resurrection Sunday! Today, as much as any other day in the Christian calendar, we have so much to be grateful for. Today is a day we look back and remember, but it’s also a day we are reminded of the hope we presently have in Jesus as we look to an uncertain future. Pastor ...read more

Scripture: Luke 24:1-12, 1 Corinthians 15:14

Topics: Empty Tomb, Resurrection Hope, Easter Morning

Sermon Series: Sunday's Coming

The Empty Tomb Premium Sermon

Contributed by PRO Premium on Oct 9, 2023

This sermon celebrates Resurrection Sunday, expressing gratitude for Jesus' resurrection, symbolized by the empty tomb, and the hope it brings to believers.

Welcome church and happy resurrection Sunday! Today, as much as any other day in the Christian calendar, we have so much to be grateful for. Today is a day we look back and remember, but it’s also a day we are reminded of the hope we presently have in Jesus as we look to an uncertain future. Pastor ...read more

Scripture: Luke 24:1-12, 1 Corinthians 15:14

Topics: Resurrection Sunday, Empty Tomb, Hope In Christ

Sermon Series: Sunday's Coming

An Empty Tomb

Contributed by Chris Surber on Mar 18, 2008

Today, allow yourself to be filled with the same hope and the same strength that the early eyewitnesses to the resurrection were filled.

An Empty Tomb, Mathew 28:1-10 Introduction A woman wrote J. Vernon McGee: “Our preacher said that on Easter Jesus just swooned on the cross and that the disciples nursed him back to health. What do you think?” McGee replied, “Dear Sister, beat your preacher with a leather whip for thirty-nine ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 28:1-10

Denomination: Christian Church

Tears At The Tomb Series

Contributed by Glenn Pease on Mar 5, 2021

John makes Mary the first to see the risen Christ, and the first to have her tears of grief wiped away by the reality of the resurrection.

It I had a dollar for every tear shed by men and women if the Bible, I would be a wealthy man, for the Bible is a book soaked with the tears of the saints. The weeping of the wicked and the sobs of sinners added to the tears of the saints makes a salty sea of liquid. Not only was Jesus a man of ...read more

Scripture: John 20:11-18

The Tomb Is Empty

Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Mar 19, 2023

The empty tomb is all the evidence we need to prove the central claim of Christianity: the resurrection of Jesus.

There’s an old joke that people tell about cemeteries when they drive by: ‘How many people are dead in that one?’ the answer, of course, is “All of them.” It’s true, isn’t it? Tombs are for people who have died. The really important ones may be called sepulchres or mausoleums. Some of them are ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 28:1-10, 1 Corinthians 15:14

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

The Three Tombs

Contributed by Mike Hullah on Mar 22, 2005

As we gather to celebrate Easter Sunday, a day when the Christian faith recognizes the resurrection of Jesus Christ - let’s look at three tombs that Jesus visited in His ministry time on earth each one reveals truth about the person of Jesus.

THE THREE TOMBS 1 Cor 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? - Grave/Tomb = the place (state) of departed souls As we gather to celebrate Easter Sunday – a day when the Christian faith recognizes the resurrection of Jesus Christ - let us share from the scripture about ...read more

Scripture: John 11:25

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Gift Of A Tomb Series

Contributed by Denn Guptill on Apr 19, 2009

This is a stewardship message looking at the gift given to Christ by Joseph of Arimathea.

When our daughter, Deborah, was preparing to depart for Odessa in Ukraine last year she had to sign a form telling how she wished to have her remains disposed of if anything happened to her while she was overseas. Pretty heavy stuff for a twenty-one year old. But practical. What do you do ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 27:57-61

Denomination: Wesleyan

Easter - At The Tomb

Contributed by Melvin Newland on May 6, 2015

I want us to put ourselves in the sandals of the disciples. For some that will be easy because despair is not foreign to you. Bur for others, that may be more difficult because . . .

MELVIN NEWLAND, MINISTER RIDGE CHAPEL, KANSAS, OK (REVISED: 2017) TEXT: Matthew 27:57-66 The disciples must have been devastated. They had been inspired by His teachings. And they had decided to follow Him. It had not been an easy road, but they had willingly left families, homes, & ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 27:57-66

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Empty Tomb Series

Contributed by Jon Daniels on Apr 2, 2024

Based on Luke 24:1-12 - Challenges hearers to consider the importance of the message of Easter.

“THE EMPTY TOMB” Luke 24:1-12 FBCF – 3/31/24 Jon Daniels INTRO – When other religions describe their main figure or leader or teacher, they use the word “was.” - Muhammad WAS an Arab religious, social, & political leader & the founder of Islam. - Buddha WAS a wandering ascetic & ...read more

Scripture: Luke 24:1-12

Denomination: Baptist

Fleeing The Tomb

Contributed by Donna Muise on Apr 18, 2007

God will roll away the stones in our lives just as he did for the women; we just have to ask.

FLEEING THE TOMB Mark 16:1-8 If we walked into what the women walked into that early Sunday morning, my guess is that we all would have been tempted to flee the tomb, too. But when you hang around with Jesus, you must be prepared to be seized by fear and amazement, because that’s just who he ...read more

Scripture: Mark 16:1-8

Denomination: Congregational

The Empty Tomb

Contributed by Vera Hughes on Feb 20, 2008

The purpose of this message is to inspire you to go to the next level in God for your life. Since Jesus is alive, and He is, then if you go to the tomb you will not find him there. He is a living Christ and you cannot find him in dead things. So many th

Matthew 28:1-5 v. 1 In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. Sepulchre – represents tomb. TOMB: 1 : an excavation in which a corpse is buried 2 : a house, chamber, or vault for the dead ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 28:1-5

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Empty Tomb Series

Contributed by Pat Cook on Aug 31, 2004

Part 3 in series on Resurrection - what happened that morning chronologically, and what it all means to us.

Mark 16:1-8 – The Empty Tomb Milton Berle once told a story about hope. Four widows are playing cards in the retirement home they lived in. A good-looking older fellow walks in, bags under each arm. "What’s a good-looking man like you doing here?" one asks. "I’m moving in," he says. ...read more

Scripture: Mark 16:1-8

Denomination: Baptist

The Empty Tomb

Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Dec 12, 2013

Jesus' bodily Presence is not all: He is with us for ever.

THE EMPTY TOMB. John 20:1-18. While Jesus’ enemies had been busying themselves setting a watch over His tomb, the disciples had been sitting quietly at home, keeping the Sabbath. At first dawn Mary Magdalene - and some other women - came to the sepulchre, and found the stone had been rolled away ...read more

Scripture: John 20:1-18

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

An Empty Tomb? Series

Contributed by Denn Guptill on Apr 9, 2007

This is the last in our CSI series and looks at the case of the missing body

Everything that needed to be said had been said and everything that needed to be done had been done. In the span of a week their world had crashed down around them and now all there was to do was pick up the pieces and try to put a semblance of their lives back together. A week ago they had ...read more

Scripture: Luke 24:1-9

Denomination: Wesleyan

Tombs And Chains

Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Apr 6, 2022

Introduction: This passage of scripture that I will be preaching from is surrounded by situations that seem to be impossible to deal with.

And they are impossible as for as man is concerned. For example, in Mark chapters 4 and 5, we read of situations that only the Lord Jesus could deal with. • In Mark 4:38, Jesus and His disciples were sailing on the Sea of Galilee when a tremendous storm overwhelmed their boat. The storm was so ...read more

Scripture: Mark 5:1-20

Denomination: Baptist