Sermon Outline for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday
Maundy Thursday –Sermon Title: Love to the End
Outline:
- Knowing What Is Coming
Jesus faces the cross with full awareness—and chooses to love anyway. - Love That Kneels Down
True love takes the form of humble service and invites us to receive before we give. - A New Commandment
We are called to love one another as Christ has loved us—through embodied, sacrificial love. - Love That Stays
Even as the altar is stripped and the night deepens, Christ’s love remains and carries us forward.
Good Friday – Sermon Title: It Is Finished — The Love That Remains
Outline
- Standing at the Cross
- The cross as a place of confusion, suffering, and questioning
- “Why doesn’t he come down?” — the human expectation of power
- “I Am Thirsty” — God Draws Near
- Jesus’ thirst reveals his full humanity
- God enters into our weakness and suffering
- “It Is Finished” — What Is Completed?
- Not defeat, but fulfillment
- The deeper question: What is salvation?
- Salvation as a Way of Life
- Not escape, but trust, obedience, and faithfulness
- Jesus chooses to follow the Father’s will
- The Love That Remains on the Cross
- Not the nails, but love holds Jesus there
- Love that does not escape, but endures
- The Paradox of Life
- Losing life to find it
- Letting go leads to abundant life
- Wounds That Give Life
- Blood and water from Jesus’ side
- Wounds transformed into life and grace
- “It Is Finished” — A Life Fully Lived
- Jesus completes the journey of faithfulness
- Love fulfilled through obedience
- Our Response: Come to the Cross
- Trust, follow, and remain
- Bring our lives to Christ and receive his love.
Easter Sunday – Sermon Title: From Seeing to Believing to Living
Sermon Outline
1. In the Darkness
God is already at work even when we cannot yet see or understand.
2. Different Ways of Seeing
True faith moves beyond observation into trust in what God is doing.
3. Called by Name
Resurrection becomes real when Christ calls us personally and we respond.
4. What Is Resurrection?
Resurrection is new life—lost to found, broken to restored, dead to alive.
5. Resurrection Today
God’s renewing power is already at work in our lives here and now.
6. From Seeing to Living
Faith leads us not only to believe, but to live and share the good news.
7. A Living Example: Kas
Baptism is a personal response of faith and a public witness of new life in Christ.
8. Invitation
We are invited to turn, trust, and step into the new life Christ offers.