I didn't grow up in a church that did this, but later in life we ended up in a more liturgical church that

Celebrates holy week like to the 9s starting with Palm Sunday. It's like, okay, here we go

We're about to walk through the story and a pretty intense way and on Wednesday of holy week

We would have a 10-a-brae service

It was done in a way that ended with darkness

It's like you blow out a candle you read a scripture. You remember how broken the world is

But you don't provide the answer yet. And so learning to sit in the grief of the brokenness of the world makes

Easter morning all the more precious, doesn't it?

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Well, we've got Andrew Peterson back in the studio. Andrew, welcome back to Family Life today. Hey, thanks for having me

We are coming up on the critical historical moment in the whole

Christian faith everything wonderful

Everything hinges and and rises and falls on this one moment in history the resurrection of Jesus Christ

Obviously, that's something that you

Believe in and have written songs about the resurrection letters

You know, so talk about resurrection and why I mean not too many people have written three different albums on that one topic

But you did and the question is why so there's this book called surprised by hope by NT right. I don't know if you guys have read it

You know some people don't agree with everything he says, but this book in particular

I haven't really talked to anybody who said he's wrong about it

And it's this book about the resurrection and what it really meant to the early church and what it means for us now and

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