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 how its imagery of being hemmed in with no way out, no help, and no rescue maps with precision onto what Jesus experienced on the cross. The detail that anchors the whole message is the phrase from verse 12: fierce bulls of Bashan. To anyone familiar with that region, Bashan carried a weight beyond geography. It was tied to King Og, to giants descended from the Nephilim, to Mount Hermon whose name in Hebrew means a place set aside for destruction, and by the time of Jesus, to Caesarea Philippi, a place of pagan worship and child sacrifice. When David wrote those words, Brian argued, he was pointing prophetically at something darker than physical danger.
Brian described Jesus walking deliberately into that same territory before heading to Jerusalem, going to pick a fight with the principalities of hell on their own ground. What followed at the cross 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 of hell came into the open because they believed they had won. What they took for their greatest moment of victory was the moment they locked horns with the one who would chip those horns. The resurrection was the proof they had lost.
The teaching then moves from ancient history to the present. Brian spoke directly to anyone who might feel the way David felt, surrounded with no way out. He says, 'Maybe you find yourself surrounded by fierce bulls of Bashan with no way out, no help, no hope, no rescue.' The point of Easter hope, as taught at Tribe, is that Jesus faced those bulls so we do not have to, and that what he accomplished is available to anyone willing to receive it.
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.