This morning I want to talk to you about GOING DEEPER IN WORSHIP! Each of us should want to GO DEEPER IN WORSHIP. Are you ready to GO DEEPER IN WORSHIP? My focus this morning is on how we...as a body…can go deeper in worship. Yet, there is a personal application…isn’t there? After all our worship as a body will only be as strong and healthy as we are individually! Let me say that another way…if my worship is not deep…then it may impact the depth of your worship!

This morning, we are celebrating the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus! We are celebrating how Jesus went from life to death...and back to life! We call it the resurrection! This morning I want you to know THE RESURRECTION IS TRUE! I am going to give you 3 reasons why the resurrection is true. This message also contains the testimonies of Mari Kay Clark and Jessica Reinholz.

This passage is what I call a sandwich passage. Here is what I mean. It has a beautiful and touching story that in the middle…but it is sandwiched between 2 ugly stories! Yet, they are all part of the same story. It is this sandwiching that creates the contrast so that we can clearly see the ugly as well as the beauty! It is the “sandwich effect” that helps us to see the 3 types of people that are following Jesus to the cross! It is why we are asking WHAT ARE YOU?

The people in your life, they can be a great spiritual asset, or they can be a curse. The people in your life can be an asset…they can lift you up, they can encourage you and, equip you and strengthen you. The wrong people though, they can be incredibly distracting and destructive and poisonous…the can be toxic…especially…if you are not careful.