I believe the first hearers of the news must have felt when the women said Jesus was alive. The congregation did not expect to hear what they heard. Rather than the run of the mill, stock approach to interpreting Luke, I hoped that the fear and anxiety the resurrection news provoked might actually provoke a new look at the power of Christ's resurrection for contemporary living. I hoped people left the sermon challenged by a new sense of what Luke tried to convey to his readers. Though they had heard the story before, perhaps they had never quite looked at it that way.
Easter is just weeks away.
You have a real challenge before you. The folks to whom you'll preach already know the tomb is empty. Previously he was associate professor of Christian preaching at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. That Connects and Apologetic Preaching. Online Christian Resources.