I've got two pieces of good news for you this morning. First of all, did you realize that no one in this room is the same person they were seven years ago? Approximately every seven years, we are entirely new. Every cell, every atom, in our body dies and is replaced with new ones in that period of time. There is not one atom in your body today that was there seven years ago. Someone has called this the "seven-year switch."

I don't know about you, but I find that quite refreshing. The process of dying and returning to life is going on in our bodies all the time. And yet our soul ” our personality, who we really are deep within ” remains the same. That is what the Easter story is all about, is it not?

In a few weeks we will celebrate Christ's resurrection and our future resurrection. Sudde…