Gracelife Sarasota

How many Easters have come and gone, with familiar sermons leaving your heart unchanged? Maybe what we need isn’t another typical Easter message, but a fresh encounter with resurrection power. This morning, we’re focusing on Lazarus’s story in John 11, which happened just a few days before Jesus’ resurrection. It’s kind of a preview of the Power of Jesus, and what He can do with all the dead places in our lives, and in our world. Places of spiritual deadness, dark corners of hidden hurts, regrets, dead ends & burdens we’ve all carried here today. Let’s be honest: our world is steeped in the power of death—broken relationships, crushed dreams, spiritual emptiness. If the resurrection doesn’t speak to the daily funerals of our hearts, how can we trust it with our eternity? Because witnessing resurrection power should provide hope in every kind of “death” we might face in this life. Resurrection power isn’t just about what happen