* This post contains affiliate links. The hymn “Hosanna, Loud Hosanna!,” which celebrates Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, makes the singer feel a part of the crowd full of hope and enthusiasm. Can’t you just imagine this hymn writer running along with the …
If you saved the tree trunk from last year’s Christmas tree, now is the time to make it into an Easter cross. If you didn’t, file this idea for next Easter (with a reminder in your December calendar to save the Christmas tree trunk) and …
What are the symbols of Easter? Bunnies, baby chicks, and Easter egg hunts? To help children hear the true story of Easter, Family Life Today has prepared a carton of twelve colorful Resurrection Eggs®. Each plastic egg contains a meaningful object related to Easter (e.g., …
” ‘By this we believe. . .’ Jesus answered them. ‘Do you now believe?’ ” John 16:30. “Now we believe…” But Jesus asks, “Do you…? Indeed the hour is coming…that you…will leave Me alone” (John 16:31-32). Many Christian workers have left Jesus Christ alone and …
Can you picture it… For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive …
The weather is finally warming up. It is a perfect time to get to know your neighbors better and have some fun. Why not invite them over for a spring bulb exchange. Many perennial flowers are grown from bulbs. They need to be dug up …
Hope! Triumph! Victory! Celebration! These joyous words describe Easter. Since Christ’s resurrection is the pivotal event in history, consider these six books and others to help children and adults remember the true significance of Easter. 1. Easter Bunny, Are You For Real? (Is It for …
After a long, hard winter in many areas, this week I got the annual surprise of seeing, seemingly overnight, flowering trees burst into bloom. Bushes and trees that looked like dead sticks a few days ago are suddenly resplendent with pink or white blossoms. I …
Dr. S.M. Lockridge’s famous sermon, Sunday’s Coming, is worth listening to every Good Friday. Whether it’s your first time, or tenth, take the three and half minutes to ponder the depth of pain Good Friday brought to our Savior and his followers. While Christ knew …
Have you ever heard the expression “bad things come in threes”? Once when I’d had one of those down times that came on the heels of three (or more) bad things happening, a friend tried to help. The pep talk could have been condensed to: …
