something or take away from that story at all. I
think anyone with a creative bone in their body
is always saying, “How can we say this is a
fresh way? How can we be more effective in
our communication of this story?” Not thinking
that we can speak for the gospel, or speak for
the Word of God, but how can we be creative
and help people understand? So, we did some
study together, me and the two other writers,
before we even sang a note or picked up a
guitar, we did some study together looking
over the Word of God and looking at some
Biblical commentaries.
One side of the tomb wh
Lazarus back to life. T
believe that it was wee
was raised from the de
was in the midst of deat
there He was on the o
where He proved to th
of time that He was kin
stone. We pretty much
we had anything else in
us had said that it was
one to pull off. And it w
wrote that song about t
I came across a sermon by one of my best
friends in the whole world, Charles Spurgeon,
and he preached a few times from this chapter,
John 11, talking about the story of Lazarus.
And he was doing what he does so brilliantly
and breaking down that story in a different way,
and we realized that there are these two clear
instances of Jesus’ interaction with a tomb.
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