Did any of them sleep Friday night?  The memories of the day tortured them.  “Alone.  He died alone.  I walked away from Him in His pain.  I left Him.  I didn’t help.  I failed Him.” “Dashed.  Dreams dashed.  How could He have let them do this?  Why did He let them do this?  I know He could have stopped them.  I know He could have.  Why didn’t He?  He was the King.  He called off a storm.  He could have called up a storm.  He failed us.”  

South Creek Campus - Good Friday 2016

“Dashed.  Dreams dashed.  How could He have let them do this?  Why did He let them do this?  I know He could have stopped them.  I know He could have.  Why didn’t He?  He was the King.  He called off a storm.  He could have called up a storm.  He failed us.”  
“My friend, suffered.  I’ve never seen anyone die the way that HE did.  The agony on his face, in His voice.  ‘My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?’  Even the Father left Him.  His Father left Him, the Father abandoned Him.  God failed us.”

McKinley Campus - Good Friday 2016

So dead He was.  And gone forever.  Jesus of Nazareth.  King of the Jews.  

But Sunday.  Just before dawn?  Silver light creeping over the eastern horizon?  What happened in that tomb?  The body stirred.  Moved.  Grave clothes sank, not filled with bloody flesh.  No stone moves, but a man walks out, who had been dead.  A man unlike any other man, a man made new, a man radiant with the new life of God.  

South Creek Campus - Celebrate Easter! 2016

McKinley Campus - Celebrate Easter! 2016

The Old Testament prophecies give us a very detailed portrait of the promised Messiah that God would send to deliver His people. Did Jesus, and only Jesus, fulfill the prophecies of the suffering servant?

South Creek Campus - The Case For Christ: The Suffering Servant

Gurus and pollsters tell us that people in our country are leaving churches in record numbers. And then they guess at all kinds of reasons. What I wonder is this: Are they leaving for the right reason?

South Creek Campus - The Case For Christ - Offended or Drawn?

Mile markers on a road help you to know where you are, how far you’ve gone and how far you have left until you arrive at your destination. Spiritual Mile Markers are very significant on our faith journey of becoming more like Jesus. But if you think about it, we live most of our lives in the seasons of life that happen between the mile marker events. How do we navigate through life's seasons and transitions on our faith journey of becoming more like Jesus.

South Creek Campus: Are We There Yet? - Part Two

The Wesleyan Church of Hamburg is a growing multi-site church located in the south-towns of Buffalo, New York. We are on mission to follow Jesus together, loving, seeking and serving others.

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