What It Means to Say, "Christ Is Risen!"
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
For Christians, despair is a sin because hope is not a feeling, it's a reality made alive in the resurrection of Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | Breakpoint listeners, I'm excited to announce that we're releasing an additional round of tickets to the |
| 0:07.7 | 2024 Coulson Center National Conference. |
| 0:10.9 | If you are hoping to come to CCNC but missed your chance, now is your opportunity. |
| 0:15.4 | Join us in Arlington, Texas, May 30th through June 2nd, as we gather to cultivate courageous faith. |
| 0:21.5 | We'll be joined by a fantastic lineup of speakers who |
| 0:24.4 | have exemplified courage in the public square, including Dr. Al Moeller, Dr |
| 0:29.0 | Kristen Collier, Katie Faust, and more. You can also sign up for our pre-conference worldview intensive |
| 0:35.2 | on courageous citizenship. Remaining tickets for CCNC are limited, |
| 0:39.7 | so be sure to register soon if you want to join us. |
| 0:42.8 | To secure your spot today, go to Colsonconference.org. |
| 0:46.8 | That's Colson conference.org. Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look and an ever-changing culture through the lens of |
| 0:58.2 | unchanging truth. |
| 0:59.4 | For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. On Sunday morning, Easter Sunday, Christians will gather in houses of worship around the world like they have since the very first century and make a proclamation to one another. |
| 1:12.0 | It's the central claim of the Christian faith. |
| 1:14.6 | We'll look at each other and we'll say those words, |
| 1:16.8 | Christ is risen, he is risen indeed. |
| 1:19.6 | Now it's tempting to make that claim |
| 1:21.3 | in a highly personal and privatized way. |
| 1:23.8 | In other words, saying something like, I believe, like you do, that Jesus Christ has risen |
| 1:28.4 | from the dead. |
| 1:29.2 | And I hope you do believe that Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. |
| 1:32.0 | But that doesn't quite catch the full effect of that proclamation throughout Christian history. |
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