Sermon Cloud

Mary’s Easter
Easter 2008
3/22/08-3/23/08
Mt 27:57-28:20; Mk 15:42-16:20; Lk 23:50-24:53; Jn 19:38-21:14
One Woman’s Engagement with the Resurrection

“I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with particular things I have done as with aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be…where does this disappointment come from?...My failure to be the person God had in mind when He created me.”  John Ortberg,
The Life You’ve Always Wanted

“Two thousand years ago, in a last attempt at reconciliation, God sent his Son, Jesus, to earth. He entered into the fleshy side of the God-human story and let people know that the time had arrived for something entirely new. God’s old way of interacting with creation was over, and a new way had begun in Jesus.”
Charlie Peacock, New Way to be Human

 “I write to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name.” 1 John 2:12

“A small decision NOW can change all your tomorrows.” 
Robert Schuller

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”  Jim Elliot

“No sin is too big to be thrown into His ocean of forgiveness.” 
Bill Bright

Introduction
8 Myths About Mary Magdalene
1.    Mary Magdalene is the same as Mary of Bethany (sister to Martha & Lazarus)
2.    Mary Magdalene is the same as the sinful woman that anointed Jesus’ feet 
3.    Mary Magdalene is the same as the adulteress woman of John 8 (when He wrote in the sand)
4.    Mary Magdalene was a Prostitute
5.    Mary Magdalene was the most important disciple of Christ and the closest person to Him.
6.    Mary Magdalene wrote her own version of the Gospel
7.    Mary Magdalene married Jesus, had a sexual relationship with Him, or even had His child
8.    Mary started the colored Easter Egg tradition
The Truth About Mary