Message Notes
April 20, 2025
The Long Road to Hope
by Scott Ancarrow
Luke 24:1-12
Other resurrection accounts can be found in Matt 28:1–8; Mark 16:1–8; John 20:1–13)
From Rituals to Resurrection
We don't need to look for life in "dead things"
We are being persuaded to spend money we don’t have, on things we don’t need, to create impressions that won’t last, on people we don’t care about.”
Tim Jackson (Prosperity Without Growth)
We have a new framework for our grief.
Luke 24:8
Central India Christian Mission, World Relief
We are participants in God's resurrection story
Luke 24:10-11
What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God's future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether (as the hymn so mistakenly puts it…). They are part of what we may call building for God's kingdom.”
― N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church (can just be in notes if too much for screen)
Where are you looking for Life?
Where do you need to “remember his words?”
Where can you tell the story of Resurrection?