Sermons on San Juan 20:7:

Dying To Live Series

Contributed by Tim Zukas on Apr 25, 2006

Easter Sermon

A Preacher found a shoe box in a closet. He opened it and found strange contents. Inside was an egg carton with 5 eggs inside. Next to the eggs was a stack of bills that totaled over a thousand dollars in small bills. As soon as his wife walked through the door he stopped her to ask if she knew ...read more

Scripture: John 20:1-8

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Ticket

Contributed by Tim Hedberg on May 9, 2006

Looking for Jesus.

The Ticket John 20:1-18 April 16, 2006 (Easter Sunday) 94 years ago this week, a boat described as unsinkable left its harbor in Southampton, England for its maiden voyage across the Atlantic. This boat, the biggest passenger boat of its time, was carrying 2,224 people - some on board for a ...read more

Scripture: John 20:1-18

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Life Story Of Peter

Contributed by Joey Nelson on May 10, 2006

Hello. My name is Simon – you probably know me as Peter. My name means rock, but to be honest, I feel more like a pebble. I want to tell you my story.

Dramatic Monologue My Beginning Hello. My name is Simon – you probably know me as Peter. My name means rock, but to be honest, I feel more like a pebble. I want to tell you my story. Even though its been a couple thousand years, I remember it like it was yesterday. I was fishing in the Sea of ...read more

Scripture: John 20:1-31, John 1:20-31

Wrong Questions, Right Answer

Contributed by John Dickey on May 16, 2006

Jesus ends the whys and wherefores of our burdened hearts – not with explanations so much as with loving, perfect restoration – making all things right, maybe not here, but absolutely in heaven – a real place, a steadfast promise, a rock-solid guarantee f

Wandering through the phenomenal collection of art in the Louvre museum you can get an odd sense of awe and futility. This former residence of Napoleon is just so packed full with mankind’s creative treasures, it numbs the mind. Crowds gather around the Mona Lisa while the rooms of renaissance ...read more

Scripture: John 20:1-18

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

God Has A Plan For You.

Contributed by Glenn Newton on May 20, 2006

A Easter Message... God’s Plan for us through the Resurrected Christ is revealed.

* Watch the video… God Has A Plan… Let’s open up our Bibles to John 20: 1-18... Let’s stand as we read God’s Holy Word. 1. God has always had a _Plan_ for your Life. Can you imagine with me what these disciples of Jesus were thinking in the hours after watching their friend, Jesus… this God-Man ...read more

Scripture: John 20:1-18

Denomination: Nazarene

The Carpenter's Cloth Series

Contributed by Pat Cook on May 22, 2006

This is taken from Sigmund Brouwer’s wonderful book of the same name. This speaks of the cross being only part of God’s plan of salvation for us, the empty tomb being the other. Jesus the carpenter wants to complete His work in us.

John 20:1-9 – The Carpenter’s Cloth Tonight I’m going to share a thought with you that I read several years ago, and it has blessed me ever since. In fact, likely, you remember it since I read it to you on my 1st Easter Sunday message in Doaktown and Blissfield. I hope that it encourages you ...read more

Scripture: John 20:1-9

Denomination: Baptist

Fools Rush In Series

Contributed by Pat Cook on May 22, 2006

This is about John beating Peter in a footrace to the empty tomb, but Peter going in first. t’s about Peter’s courage, and how we need to live courageous lives, following God’s plans for us.

John 20:1-9 – Fools Rush In Today, as we are continuing our series called He is Risen Indeed, where we have been studying Jesus’ resurrection and what it means to us, we turn our attention to the men of the story. We have studied Jesus’ female disciples, but now we look for inspiration from ...read more

Scripture: John 20:1-9

Denomination: Baptist

Why Christ Must Rise From The Dead.

Contributed by Simon Fisher on Jun 1, 2006

How Christ rising from the dead makes us certain of the love of an almighty and eternal God.

For as yet they knew not the Scripture, that he must rise again from the dead. (Jn 20:9) So the disciples went to the tomb, Peter, and John, and Mary Magdelene, of whom John and Mary had seen Jesus die two days before, and they found that Jesus was not in the tomb. And when Mary waited in ...read more

Scripture: John 20:9, John 20:1-10

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

Angel Gear

Contributed by Tony Grant on Nov 10, 2005

On Easter Morning, we put ourselves in a kind of spiritual “angel gear.” We turn off all our mechanistic doubts. We refuse to put the brakes on the faith. We cling to the steering wheel of Easter.

Angel Gear John 20:1-10, Matthew 28:1-10 03/27/05 1375 words 1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. 2 So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus ...read more

Scripture: John 20:1-10

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

While It Was Still Dark

Contributed by Anne Robertson on Oct 30, 2006

The greatest miracles are often done in the darkest times, when no one knows and no one is watching.

WHILE IT WAS STILL DARK TEXT: John 20:1-18 For those of us who practice Christian faith, the resurrection is the central, monumental event of history. Whether you’re the type of Christian that looks at it as historical reality or the type of Christian that sees it as a story of only spiritual ...read more

Scripture: John 20:1-18

Denomination: Methodist

Wake Me Up Inside

Contributed by Dave Bootsma on Jul 7, 2006

We are frozen and dead until Jesus touches us and brings us life.

Wake Me Up Inside how can you see into my eyes like open doors, leading you down into my core, where i’ve become so numb. without a soul, my spirit sleeping somewhere cold, until you find it there and lead it back home. wake me up inside, wake me up inside, call my name and save me from the ...read more

Scripture: John 20:1-21

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

I'm Forgiven

Contributed by Robert Higgins on Sep 5, 2006

An Easter understanding of forgiveness.

UN-Forgiven: The Resurrection of Christ "Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends his son to die for you." A man was blissfully driving along the highway, when he saw the Easter Bunny hopping across the middle of the ...read more

Scripture: John 20:1-7

Denomination: Baptist

"The Adoption Is Final"

Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Sep 13, 2006

Anyone who has ever undergone the scrutiny of the adoption process will testify that the sweetest words of the whole experience are, “The adoption is final”. From the first meeting with those in authority, to the last “inspection” and filing of all paperw

Biblical Text: John 20:1-18 and 1 Corinthians 15:20-22 “The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and ...read more

Scripture: John 20:1-18

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

They Saw And Believed

Contributed by J. Yeargin on Nov 28, 2006

This is the day in which we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord. Everyone is dressed for the occasion and look great, but there is One in Whom is adorned more so than anyone else. His name is Jesus Christ – the Risen King!

THEY SAW AND BELIEVED <Power Point available upon request> I am thankful this morning that it is Easter. This is the day in which we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord. Everyone is dressed for the occasion and look great, but there is One in Whom is adorned more so than anyone else. His ...read more

Scripture: John 20:6-8

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Race To The Tomb

Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Mar 31, 2010

All of us are running in this world. Some are running to God, some trying to run away from Him. How far will they go? We should be running in a spiritual way. All our focus needs to be on the tomb where Jesus rose to new life and will take us with him to

Opening illustration: I think of Eric Liddell. The movie Chariots of Fire depicts how his sister Jenny tried to persuade Eric to give up his running, and go to China with her to be a missionary. He said, "No, God has made me fast and called me to run." It would have been wrong at that point to be a ...read more

Scripture: John 20:1-9

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational