Have you heard a new song this Easter season that has deeply moved you? This happened last week at our Youth Choirs’ Easter Program recently where a bright, pure, hope-filled song moved me to tears. (Thank you, Lord, choir directors, and kids!). Here are the stirring lyrics and video that I trust will help prepare your heart to worship the RISEN Savior:

When darkness veiled the sky the day that Jesus died
In agony upon the bitter cross
They took His body down and laid it in a tomb
His friends believed that everything was lost.
But when the third day came, the darkness turned to light
For Mary heard her name and saw the living Christ.

Risen
To set the captives free
Risen to ransom you and me
To bind up every broken heart
To conquer death and sin.
Risen
To bring us home again.

And in that barren place the world forever changed
For hope was born when Jesus rose that day and
Still His wounded have revealed the love He has
For every fallen soul He came to save
And He will come again, and I’ve by one we’ll rise
To praise His Holy Name and see the Living Christ.

Risen
To set the captives free
Risen to ransom you and me
To bind up every broken heart
To conquer death and sin.
Risen
To bring us home again.

Alleluia, He lives
Alleluia, He isRisen
To set the captives free
Risen to ransom you and me
To bind up every broken heart
To conquer death and sin.


Risen
To bring us home again

Risen

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