One more Easter song today, and I thought I’d shared this one with you last year, but I must have kept it to myself. This one isn’t going to be in your hymnal.

James Ward is a musician and churchman in my city and denomination. “Death Is Ended,” written in 2011, is a marvelous celebration of Jesus’s crushing death with his resurrection. The repeated chorus goes “Death is ended. Death is ended. Death is shallowed up in victory.”

“Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?’” (John 11:25-26 ESV)