What does Tribe teach about easter hope?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At Tribe, the teaching on Easter hope starts with Psalm 22, a song David wrote a thousand years before Jesus was born. Brian walked the congregation through that psalm and showed how its imagery of being utterly surrounded, with no way out and no help coming, maps onto what Jesus faced on the cross. The detail that opens the psalm, the exact cry Jesus spoke from the cross, is not accidental. David was seeing something prophetically about a moment he did not fully understand.
The phrase Brian lingered on was 'fierce bulls of Bashan.' In David's world, Bashan carried a supernatural weight, tied to giants, to darkness, to a place whose very name in Hebrew means set aside for destruction. When Jesus walked deliberately into that same geography before heading to Jerusalem, Brian said he was going to pick a fight with the powers of hell on their own ground. What happened next looked, to every human observer, like total defeat. But Brian says, 'The cross was not the triumph of darkness, but the judgment of it.' The powers came out into the open because they thought they had won, and that moment of apparent victory was the moment they locked horns with the one who would chip those horns. The resurrection was the proof that they had lost.
The turn Brian makes is toward anyone who feels surrounded right now. If you find yourself, as he put it, with no way out, no help, no hope, no rescue, the teaching at Tribe is that Jesus faced those bulls so you do not have to. His victory is not a historical footnote. It is available to anyone willing to make an exchange, receiving the life Jesus offers in place of the fight they have been trying to survive alone.
Taught from Psalm 22:1-24 · 1 Corinthians 15:55-57 · Colossians 2:14 · Deuteronomy 3:1-11 · Matthew 10
“The cross was not the triumph of darkness, but the judgment of it.”
From Easter Sunday at Tribe
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 15:55-57
55 “Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- April 6, 2026 Easter Sunday at Tribe Brian Hunter preaches on Psalm 22 at Easter, tracing the "bulls of Bashan" from David's cry to the cross, and what Christ's resurrection means for anyone feeling surrounded and trapped.
- April 5, 2026 The Bulls of Bashan Brian Hunter walks through Psalm 22 on Easter Sunday, tracing David's ancient words about bulls of Bashan to the cross and what Jesus's victory means for your life today.