Life is full of either/or moments. Some are trivial: chicken or fish for dinner. Others are life-altering: marry this person or walk away. But no either/or moment is as consequential as this one: either Jesus is still dead—or Jesus is risen from the dead. That question touches every human being.

Jesus claimed he would rise. If he did not, then his promises evaporate and our faith is reduced to wishful thinking. As the apostle Paul bluntly says, “If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins” (1 Corinthians 15:17). But Christ is risen. He is risen indeed! And that changes everything.

The resurrection of Jesus is the decisive turning point in all of human history. Because Jesus lives, life itself is different—now and forever. Throughout the fifty days of Easter, the Church asks a single, searching question: What difference does it make that Jesus lives? In each service of this series, we explore a concrete and breathtakingly beautiful answer. The resurrection reality is more than the confession “Christ lives.” It is the promise that he lives for us.

Come and see what difference that makes.