Everyone loves a comeback story—until you realize you might have to be part of it. In this episode, we step into the story of Lazarus, where, after four days dead, life returns. But when he comes out, he is still wrapped, still bound, still carrying what has not yet been set down.

Jesus does not step forward to fix it. He looks at the people who stayed and says, “Unbind him.” The same people who sat in the house, who walked the road, who stayed through the hard part, are the ones close enough to help when life returns. The same spaces that held grief begin to hold something else. Not finished. But moving.

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