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Easter Surprise–how Holy Week still shocks us
Surprise! It's already Easter week. Holy Week. I'm shocked, and not in a holy way. How did I get so busy that I didn't prepare…
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15 amazing truths about the Easter story & how Jesus wasn’t a victim
Why does Easter matter? Easter weekend is so much more than clothes, ham dinners, communion, and a brief contemplation of the cross. I urge you…
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Good friday: Mary’s heartache
GOOD FRIDAY: JESUS' DEATH & MARY'S HEARTACHE Mary reflects on Jesus' life while standing at the foot of the cross Ever since Gabriel appeared to…
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Happy resurrection Monday. Or as the US government

Happy resurrection Monday. Or as the US government would say, Easter Monday. Enjoy the freedom of the Lord. #easter #resurrection #spring #azaleas #rva

Azaleas come back every year with no help from me.

Azaleas come back every year with no help from me. Sounds like a God with power. Because he is a creator and a resurrector, spring is easy-peasy for him! #spring #azaleas #easter #resurrection

Family Easter dinner on Palm Sunday and a Waster w

Family Easter dinner on Palm Sunday and a Waster waffle bar on Silent Saturday. I’m so grateful for my amazing family! No pictures of the 10 church services! But it’s been a busy, transformative, and powerful week! #easter #resurrection #jesus

CS Lewis on God's great love: "God, who needs noth

CS Lewis on God's great love: "God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the universe, already foreseeing - or should we say 'seeing'? there are no tenses in God - the buzzing cloud of flies about the cross, the flayed back pressed against the uneven stake, the nails driven through the mesial nerves, the repeated incipient suffocation as the body droops, the repeated torture of back and arms as it is time after time, for breath's sake, hitched up. If I may dare the biological image, God is 'host' who deliberately creates His own parasites; causes us to be that we may exploit and 'take advantage of' Him. Herein is love. This is the diagram of Love Himself, the inventor of all loves."

Happy Good Friday! Let us be somber in its grief, rejoicing in its ultimate triumph, and grateful for the cost! Enjoy the meaning of Christ's sacrifice--Sunday's coming!

#easter #resurrection #salvation #cross #jesus #paymentforsins #goodfriday #crucifixion #atonement #reconciliation #godslove

Check out a series of stories about Passion Week o

Check out a series of stories about Passion Week on my website. Website link is in the bio: "Witnesses of the Cross." #easter #perspective #witnesses #resurrection #resurrectionsunday

We are probably all wowed by the cross and the res

We are probably all wowed by the cross and the resurrection this week, but which other part of the Passion Week surprises or inspires you the most?

Peter’s denial and restoration
Jesus washing the disciples’ feet
Triumphal entry on a donkey
Jesus whipping down the money-changers’ tables in the temple
Judas’ betrayal
The Jews Cheering on Sunday and yelling “crucify him!” On Friday
The tortuous design of crucifixion
The thief on the cross
Jesus’ conversation with john and mary from the cross
Nicodemus and joseph preparing Jesus’ body for Joseph’s tomb
Mary Magdalene in the garden with jesus
Jesus calling the disciples from the shore
Thomas believing when he saw Jesus
The stone rolling away to reveal that Jesus is not in the tomb!