3/22/2026 Praise Service

AS WE GATHER While Lent focuses on Christ’s suffering and upcoming death, these Readings turn to the resurrection and life. Ezekiel takes us to the valley of the dry bones, and we hear the promise “you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves” (Ezekiel 37:13). Romans 8 finishes with the promise “He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you” (v. 11). John 11 tells of Lazarus coming out of the tomb after four days, but the climax comes earlier when Jesus declares He is the resurrection and life. Psalm 130 starts with a cry from the depths to God that asks the Lord to be attentive to our pleas, but it ends with the hope we have in the Lord. Every Sunday, including those in Lent, is a celebration of Christ’s resurrection.