How Great Is Our God (An Easter Moment)

Travis Cottrell's "How Great Is Our God (An Easter Moment)" opens with a spoken passage straight from Luke's gospel — the angel's words to the women at the empty tomb: "fear not ye; for I know that ye seek Jesus, who hath been crucified. He is not here, for He is risen." The song doesn't ease into the resurrection; it starts there.

"The splendor of a king, clothed in majesty... He wraps Himself in light, and darkness tries to hide and trembles at His voice" pairs the familiar Chris Tomlin worship anthem with that Easter framing, so lines usually sung about God's general greatness land specifically as resurrection language here — darkness trembling at a voice that had just walked out of a tomb.

"The Lion and the Lamb" borrows John's vision in Revelation of Christ as both conquering King and sacrificed Lamb in the same title, two images that don't usually belong together held side by side without resolving the tension between them. "Age to age He stands, and time is in His hands, beginning and the End" closes the song on the same scale the opening Bible reading already established — not just an event two thousand years old, but a King still reigning now.