On Sunday, March 22nd, 2026, Karl Brown spoke on "Lazarus. Imagination. Prayer. Repeat.". In his research, Karl asks why Jesus put such effort in staging  Lazarus' resurrection. Jesus explains to multiple different peoples that Lazarus died and he was going to resurrect him. Was this a marketing campaign? A practice run for Jesus' own resurrection later? Karl argues that it was neither, but that this was Jesus expanding the imaginations of his followers. Today, we have so many different tools (books, movies, etc) to expand our imaginations, and Jesus' resurrection is old news. Back then, resurrection was unheard of, and the media industry was quite small. God's imagination is God-sized, and Jesus came down to help expand our own imagination. And, what idea is more powerful than the idea of eternal life! [JL]

Passage: John 11: 1-45
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Ecumenical or Event: Lent 5
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Speaker: Karl Brown
Worship Leader: Paul Thiessen
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