Sermon Tone Analysis

We’ve been talking about how the resurrection changed everything.

This is Love:

1.Love that forgives and frees us,

2. Love that conquers the grave,

3. Love that makes all things new

What does it mean for God to make all things new?

Why does that matter for us, here and now?

(Illustration) When we are given that special gift as a child (or adult), we just don’t want to let it go.

We carry it around wherever we go.

Carrie, my oldest daughter, had a little yellow doll she called “Honey Doll”.

That poor little thing was like the velveteen rabbit, all worn and torn up - I don’t know how many times we lost it and had to retrace where we were until we found it - it was used by our german shepherd as a toy, run over by at least one car, washed and dried and sewed together a couple times.

Carrie and Honey Doll were inseparable.

During the times it was gone, like any good parent, we would try to make it right by getting a brand new one......but that wouldn’t do .............I don’t want a new one, I want Honey Doll - fixed.

When we look at the world around us.

If we’re honest, we don’t want some other world in some far away place; we want this world, this life - but fixed.

We want our loved ones - but alive with an imperishable kind of life; we want our relationships - but without the pain and the hurt or the brokenness.

We are surrounded by things that have fallen apart.

We don’t want all new things; we want all things to be made new.