Why We Must Understand Christ’s Suffering
If we neglect to rightly see Christ’s suffering, we fail to understand Him, lose sight of the depth of joy of Resurrection Sunday, and miss the solace offered by our suffering Savior.
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Revive Our HeartsSharon Jaynes
The Day Grace Rode Into Town
Let today’s devotion prepare your heart for Easter… Suppose I knew ahead of time that the people who cheered for me one day, would sneer at me five days later. That the people who showered me with praise one day would hurl insults the next. How would I respond to the accolades, applause, and admiration of others on a Sunday…if I knew those same people would turn their backs on me and shake their raised fists at me the following Friday? Read more...
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Lisa Price
Five Crazy Pants Lies Christians Believe about Sin-
Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long…
5 min readErica Barthalow
‘He Is Risen—Just As He Said’: Finding Real Hope This Easter — Erica Barthalow
“He is not here, he has risen, JUST AS HE SAID ” - Matthew 28:6 (emphasis added) These are some of my favorite words in the Bible. Without the resurrection what do we have? But I think, for years, I was so focused on the words, HE IS RISEN, that I missed the scene they’re set in almost entirely!
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Brenda Seefeldt
Brenda Seefeldt Amodea is a pastor, and speaker. She has worked with teens since 1981 to present. She has lived through the teen years in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and now into the 2020s. Imagine that collected wisdom! Imagine just the teen language trends she has lived through. She writes about that wisdom at www.Bravester.com. Read this clever article about those decades at https://largerstory.church/four-decades-of-youth-ministry/ She has also published I Wish I Could Take Away Your Pain, the Bible study workbook with video, Trust Issues with God, and The Story of Two Lost Sons. With her husband, Brenda also publishes a paintball magazine, www.Paintball.Media. You didn’t see that one coming, right?