Finding Easter in the Dark
Text: John 11: 1-45. I nominate Lazarus as the poster child for Lent 2020. We know almost nothing about Lazarus, his interests, his life’s work, whether he was married, had kids, if he had a delightful or a troubled childhood. All we know about Lazarus is what Scrooge tells us about his business partner, Jacob Marley, in the opening scene of A Christmas Carol, “Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the