Faith and Fertilizer

Easter 2026

By Dean Fulks, April 04, 2026

An in Jerusalem means an in Heaven



Ezekiel 37:2-3 – He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”



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Ezekiel 37:11 – Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are indeed cut off.’



Ephesians 4:18 – They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.



Ephesians 37:10 – So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.



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1 Corinthians 15:17-19 – And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.



1 Corinthians 15:20 – But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead



1 Corinthians 15:54b-55 – “Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”



O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, and ransom captive Israel,

That mourns in lonely Exile here until the Son of God appear



Isaiah 53:8b – He was cut off out of the land of the living



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