The story behind Matt Maher's "Christ Is Risen"

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Matt Maher talks about the story behind his new song "Christ Is Risen"

Click the link below for a transcript of the sermon from St. John Chrysostom.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paschal_Homily

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  • @129archangel interesting web site. not likely to sway anyone not already interested in the Orthodox Church. Anyone seeking a Savior is not likely to be concerned about Autocephaly. (Having said that, I loved reading it! Just one of the ways that I'm strange.) The Q&A section was good. The replies showed more humility and "approachability" than I'd have expected. Thanks for the reference! Regards.

  • Amazing, Sermons from days of old

    are being told again and they are pretty

    good, just like God.

  • Mr. Maher, the Orthodox Christians have been chanting "Christ is risen from the dead trampling down death by death  and to those in the tombs bestowing life" for close to 2000 years now...You discovering "this guy" St. John Chrystostom, literally meaning the "golden mouthed" the great theologian and father of the Church whose liturgy we sstill celebrate today, is the terrible result of the falling away of our christian brother and sisters from the Mother Church..

  • Jesus is Risen and it took God's only Son to conquer death to reunite humanity back with God after original sin. True, God owns heaven and earth, hell is not the absence of God's Love, it's where souls have rejected God's love. And God can't go against one's free will, as Love is Free! And that is how God made us!

  • Love the song ... But Hell doesn't belong to God's enemy. It belongs to God. And God is not working at odds with himself in defeating death. He defeated death by slaying our evil at the cross and quarantining unrepentant evil in Hell.

  • We say "Christ is Risen!" The other responds "Indeed He is Risen".

  • Christ is Risen from the dead, trampling down death by death and upon those in the tombs bestowing life!

    St. John Chrysostom (means "golden mouthed" and is not his real name) wrote the Orthodox Liturgy that we still use every Sunday. The sermon is read every Easter in every Orthodox church in the world.

    We proclaim "Christ is Risen from the dead trampling down death by death and upon those in the tombs bestowing life!" every Pascha and for 40 days after.

  • Wow -- Nice to see Matt admit that his inspiration was the sermon read at every Every Orthodox Christian celebration of Christ's resurrection known as Pascha.

    in fact that sermon has been read for 1700 years in teh original and ancient Orthodox Christian Church. If you liked the meaning behind the song -- you woe it to yourself to discover Orthodox Christianity.

    The sermon itself is much more moving than the song here. IMO.

    Search "paschal sermon" at oca.org

  • Wow -- Nice to see Matt admit that his inspiration was the sermon read at every Every Orthodox Christian celebration of Christ's resurrection known as Pascha.

    in fact that sermon has been read for 1700 years in teh original and ancient Orthodox Christian Church. If you liked the meaning behind the song -- you woe it to yourself to discover Orthodox Christianity.

    The sermon itself is much more moving than the song here. IMO.

    Search paschal sermon at oca.org

  • going for adds now??? what was that at the end? great stuff though, thanks for sharing that info and making this song!!!

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