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The Resurrection Letters: Andrew Peterson

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Ever felt buried by grief? Andrew Peterson, artist of "The Resurrection Letters," shares hope in the face of suffering or loss. Every lyric guides parents in understanding the purpose of grief, while also explaining to children the significance of Jesus' ...

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0:00.0

Hey, before we get started, Shelby Abbott here, I wanted you to know that we are booking right now for the 2025 Love Like You Mean It, Marriage Cruise.

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out the link in the show notes.

0:16.8

All right, let's get to the program.

0:18.3

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

0:26.5

church that that celebrates Holy Week like to the nine's like I love starting with Palm

0:32.3

Sunday it's like okay here we go we're

0:35.0

about to walk through the story in a pretty intense way and on Wednesday of

0:39.0

Holy Week we would have a ten-brae service it was done in a way that ended with darkness. It's like you blow out a candle,

0:46.0

you read a scripture, you remember how broken the world is, but you don't provide the answer yet.

0:51.2

And so learning to sit in the grief of the brokenness of the world

0:55.0

makes Easter morning all the more precious, doesn't it? Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

1:10.0

I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson. You can find us at

1:14.7

FamilyLife Today.com. This is Family Life Today. Well, we've got Andrew Peterson back in the studio.

1:25.0

Andrew, welcome back to Family Life today.

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Hey, thanks for having me.

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We are coming up on the critical historical moment in the whole Christian faith.

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

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Obviously that's something that you believe in and have written songs about, the

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resurrection letters.

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You know, so talk about resurrection and why. songs about, the resurrection letters.

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You know, so talk about resurrection and why, I mean, not too many people have written three

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