Notes from the Sermon

This is the last sermon in the Brand New series. Next week we're starting a new series - Recalculate: A Series on the Data You Use to Chart Your Life.

This sermon is on regrets. We all have regrets - big and small - and many of us wish we could just go back and talk some sense into our younger self. 

I have no regrets...I just don't care. Not the most productive approach to regret. Running away from regret can lead to more regrets. Neither can we wash the regrets of the past away by doing better in the present. 

Easter gives us all we need to deal with regrets. 

1 Peter 1:3 (NASB) - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Peter knew all about regret. Our regret is fueled by the shock we feel when we do and are something that we never thought  in a million years that we'd do. Some are minor - some are major. We know our regrets and our brokenness. 

We do not have to resign ourselves to a life of regret. Peter's story exemplifies this. 

Living hope replaces bitter regret. 

If the story ends with Jesus' death, it is a hopeless death and a hopeless story and our regrets hang on that cross with a dead man. 

But Jesus is Alive and we have a Living Hope. 

Jesus does not - in any way - regret what He did for you. 

Instead of being crippled with regrets, we are free to live with hope. 

Many people believe Christianity is a call to be nicer, less cool, more serious, etc. But Christianity is a call to a Living Hope - it's a call to a brand new life. 

There is hope for each and every one of us, anchored in joy, celebrating the newness that comes of the Risen Christ. Jesus is Alive and He makes all things New. 

Hallelujah!