Easter Sermons, Outlines, Illustrations & Backgrounds

The Resurrection of Jesus … So What? by Ernest Easley
Now on this Easter Sunday morning … take your Bible and turn with me to Matthew 28. It amazes me today how much confusion there is when it comes to Easter … and we are partly to blame! There was an extremely enthusiastic teacher of four year olds who one Sunday asked her class, "Does anybody know what today is?" A little girl held up her hand and said... ( read more )

What Does Easter Prove by Fred Lowery
What is the big deal about Easter anyway? Why is it so important? What does Easter really prove? That's what we want to talk about today because today a billion people will celebrate Easter. The greatest day in the history of the world. And after 2000 plus years of critical examination and analysis we still have an empty tomb. Without any viable challenge at all. Three... ( read more )

Easter Rolls Away The Stones by Dr. Stan Coffey
"When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the Mother of James,and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus' body. Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way tothe tomb and they asked each other, "Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?" But when they looked… ( read more )

God is Alive! (3 of 3) by Jerry Vines
I guess if there was ever anyone who felt like life had smashed him in the face, it was this man named Job. He is known in the Bible as the Old Testament man of sorrows. In a whirlwind of woe, his health and his wealth were blown away. Then, in a marathon of misery, the dearest things in all of his life were taken from him. His children were killed. His… ( read more )

Easter Means Forever! by Jerry Vines
Centuries ago a man asked as question, "If a man dies, shall he live again?" It was a man who was going through unbelievable circumstances. He had just lost all ten of his children in one terrible disaster. He was afflicted with a terminal disease. He didn't expect to live. Out of that tragedy and heartache and crisis he posed the question, "If a person dies, is… ( read more )

The Resurrection of Jesus … So What? by Ernest Easley
Now on this Easter Sunday morning … take your Bible and turn with me to Matthew 28. It amazes me today how much confusion there is when it comes to Easter … and we are partly to blame! There was an extremely enthusiastic teacher of four year olds who one Sunday asked her class, "Does anybody know what today is?" A little girl held up her hand and said... ( read more )

The Hope of Easter by Ernest Easley
If there was ever a day that gives us hope .. it is resurrection Sunday! In fact ...that's why the church gathers week by week on Sunday .. the Lord's Day for worship, rather than on Saturday, the Sabbath: to celebrate and commemorate the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ! In fact .. every Sunday is a celebration of the empty tomb! A celebration that of the empty... ( read more )

An X-Ray of the Cross by Dr. J. Vernon McGee
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. But thou art holy, O thou who inhabitest the praises of Israel. Our fathers trusted in thee; they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. They cried unto… ( read more )

The Power of Easter: The Miracle of Faith by M. Jolaine Szymkowiak
Ah, It's Easter Sunday. A joyous occasion, a season of renewal, a time of extreme worship. Sanctuaries filled with lots of beautiful flowers: lilies, tulips, hyacinths and sometimes balloons. The children, especially the little girls, are showing off their new clothes. There is a sense of excitement, and expectancy that ripples through the congregation. Families… ( read more )

The Unfinished Work of Easter by Dr. Stan Coffey
Every preacher has preached on the finished work of Christ on the cross. When Jesus died he cried with a loud voice, IT IS FINISHED. The Pharisees and Scribes hoped that HE was finished. The demons of hell had a holiday because they thought Christ was finished and that they had thwarted the work of redemption that Christ came to do. But Jesus did not… ( read more )