Childrens Sermon Service

First Thoughts: This story is so familiar to us we might not recognize the resurrection as a surprise ending. In fact, we'd be surprised if the story didn't end this way. But we need to be aware of the revolutionary message of hope the resurrection illumines for us. We can't reduce it to a theological formula, although theologians have tried for centuries. No, this is an encounter with mystery, the same mystery that interacts with us today, which turns over our expectations and delivers to us something we never could have foreseen.