Worship and Music News

Easter is fast approaching and as you read this, we will most likely be in the midst of one of the busiest weeks of the church year for musicians (and pastors!). From Palm Sunday through Easter Sunday, it’s a whirlwind of activity. What must it have been like that chaotic week so many years ago?

From the triumphal entry where the crowd sang hosannas – to Jesus sharing the last supper with his disciples and proclaiming the bread and wine as his body and blood in the new covenant; from Judas’ betrayal in the garden of Gethsemane – to Jesus’ trial before Pilate; from being scourged, scorned and forced to carry the cross through the streets of Jerusalem – to His final words “Into your hands I commend my spirit.”

It is difficult to imagine the extreme highs and lows of that fateful week leading to Calvary, but because of Jesus’s ultimate sacrifice for our sins, we can sing “God sent His son, they called him Jesus, He came to love, heal and forgive. He lived and died to buy my pardon, an empty grave is there to prove my Savior lives.” And we can confidently echo the
words of the refrain: “… I know he holds the future and life is worth the living just because He lives.”
So on Easter Sunday morning when a fellow worshiper greets you with the words, “He is risen!”, you can answer with every assurance of truth, “He is risen indeed!”

Soli Deo Gloria,

Laurie