With these 101 Easter sermons and ideas for your church, you’ll be ready to celebrate our risen Savior this year! As your church celebrates the glorious resurrection of Jesus this Easter, there is no better time to worship whole-heartedly and to reach out to your community effectively. We are called to share our hope of eternal life with the visitors who come through the doors for Easter services, as well as neighbors who are not connected with your church. Read more…
Churches of all sizes can put these 101 Easter sermons and ideas into practice.
101 Easter Sermons and Ideas for Your Church
Here are 16 fresh Easter sermon ideas:
1. Expecting God
Text: Matthew 21
Focus: Often we want God to meet our expectations when God wants to go far beyond what we expect.
Function: Inspire listeners to let go of their expectations and to wait for God to exceed those expectations.
2. God Does New Things
Text: 1 Peter 1:3
Focus: Often we look to God to forgive us when actually God wants to make us completely new.
Function: Inspire listeners to look to God not only for forgiveness but also for transformation. Easter only forgives sin, but also gives us power over it.
3. Living in Separation
Text: Romans 5:6-8
Focus: While sin leaves us powerless, God loves us enough to give us power over sin by sending Jesus to die on the cross.
Function: Inspire listeners to offer themselves fully to God to experience the most hope, peace and joy.
4. Past vs. Present
Text: 1 Corinthians 15:4 (focusing on “rose” as a present verb)
Focus: Even though we remember Easter as a past event, we celebrate it as a present event as God continues to work in us.
Function: No matter what the past of the listener looks like, God wants to meet them in the present and transform their future.
5. From Death to Life
Text: Ephesians 2:5
Focus: While Jesus was dead in the grave, the Father raised Him to new life. God is calling listeners to new life through Jesus.
Function: Inspire listeners to experience real life change by trusting God with their entire life.
6. Don’t Put God First
Text: Romans 12:1
Focus: The resurrection is about the living Lord. His life should be the center of our lives.
Function: Don’t put Jesus first on the list; make Him the center of everything that you are and do.
7. A New Kind of Alive
Text: 1 Peter 1:3-9
Focus: The resurrection provides a new kind of life for Jesus, a life where he will never die.
Function: Inspire listeners to experience new life that comes with trusting Jesus.
8. Long Story Short
Text: Genesis 3 vs. Gospel Resurrection
Focus: God is restoring creation from the Fall. In Adam there is death and in Jesus there is life.
Function: Inspire listeners to allow God to restore their broken lives.
9. I Did, So You Do
Text: Matthew 28:16-20
Focus: Every scene of the resurrected Jesus, He is commissioning and sending. Jesus resurrection is linked to mission of the church.
Function: Inspire listeners to get on mission with resurrected Jesus.
10. Have Some Fun
Text: Philippians 4:4
Focus: God has already accomplished everything on the cross and the resurrection. There is nothing more for us to do but experience the joy of the Lord.
Function: Inspire listeners to stop trying to earn salvation and experience joy in this life.
Scripture: John 19:35-20:35
Summary: Let’s examine the promises of Easter. Each promise is marked by something empty—an empty cross, empty clothes, and an empty cave. It is the very fact that each of these is empty that assures us God’s promises are not.
12. The Easter Door
Scripture: Matthew 28:1
Summary: The kick off message for our ’One Month To Live’ Campaign. In this message I talk about the 3 doors, the Door Of: Forgiveness, Restoration and Hope.
Scripture: Matthew 27:57-66
Summary: I want us to put ourselves in the sandals of the disciples. For some that will be easy because despair is not foreign to you. Bur for others, that may be more difficult because…
Scripture: Mark 15:42-16:42
Summary: Easter – What were the first word’s Jesus says after his rez? ta da! The women at the tomb are filled with fear for they now understand who Jesus really is.