The telephone rang last Thursday morning. The caller identified himself as a reporter for The Raleigh Times. "We are doing a feature article on preparations ministers make for preaching on Easter Sunday," he said, "and I would like to ask you a few questions."

With my consent, the questions were asked: How much time are you spending in preparation? What are you going to say? Are you using last year's Easter sermon? Where did you get your idea? How does it all tie in with what you have been preaching prior to Easter?

I was amazed at how interested the reporter was in what had gone on in our services prior to that day. He was fascinated by the idea of sounds, especially the way we have attempted to hear some sounds of the passion over the past six Sundays, and how the sound of everlasting …