Easter Sunday Service - 4/24/2011 - Sam Wells

A service of Easter Sunday worship in Duke University Chapel. The Reverend Dr. Samuel Wells delivers a sermon entitled "Rolling Stones."

Opening excerpt from the sermon: (33:59)
"Earthquake. The very word conjures up our deepest, primal fears. We build strong towers, secure walls, formidable foundations -- but something up near the top of the Richter scale turns them all into dust and fragments. Whether it's Haiti, or China, or Chile, or Japan, or one day San Francisco again, we have these images of huge tears in major highways and buildings rumbled to their core. And, more than anything, the sense of being buried alive, scarcely able to move, with a massive mountain of concrete lying across your chest, asking yourself, "Who will roll away this stone?"

Closing excerpt from the sermon: ( 50:58)
"The stone has rolled. Let it roll. Feel the joy of all your grief and folly and fragility and failure rolling with it. Let it roll. Feel your heart burst with the wonder of resurrection. Let it roll, let it roll, let it roll. This is a heavenquake. Jesus is risen. The stone of death and grief, the stone of sin and control, the stone of fear and paralysis -- they couldn't hold steady. They've rolled, sunshine. And your past and your present have rolled with them. But your future's still open. The stone has rolled away and the future is exposed to the fresh air of early morning and new life. Do you want to see the glory of God or don't you?
It's Easter. It's a heavenquake. It's the day of the rolling stones."

Sermon begins at 33:58.
Mark 16:1-8
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