Overview:
- Easter framed as a season of renewal, rooted in Passover and celebrated across the Gospels (Matthew 28 emphasized).1.5–2 billion peeps produced each season in the U.S.; roughly 5–6 million per day leading up to Easter — a cultural note on celebration.
- Matthew 28 dramatizes the resurrection (earthquake, angel, stone rolled) and proclaims He is risen; the first witnesses in all four Gospels are women, especially Mary Magdalene.
- Speaker develops a sustained garden metaphor: Gethsemane (surrender), tomb (soil), Genesis garden (beginning) — the tomb is soil, not end.
- Pastoral call: stay in the garden, trust the gardener, make space for what God is beginning — personal growth is a process, different seasons yield different fruit.
