Posts Tagged ‘Holy Week’
Brought Back to Life
Happy Easter! Wow, if you live in Canada, hasn’t it felt like the longest winter this year? Like we’re finally emerging from the cold and darkness. I’m so glad that the way we typically mark the end of Winter and the beginning of Spring is also around Easter. New life is literally bursting out of…
Read MoreWe Can Live in Total Freedom
While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. As someone who grew up in a Christian home, I can often forget the gravity of this truth. While I was an enemy of God, God loved me enough to send his son to die on a cross for me. While I was obsessed with what…
Read MoreBrought Back to Life
Happy Easter! Wow, if you live in Canada, hasn’t it felt like the longest winter this year? Like we’re finally emerging from the cold and darkness. I’m so glad that the way we typically mark the end of Winter and the beginning of Spring is also around Easter. New life is literally bursting out of…
Read MoreWe Can Live in Total Freedom
While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. As someone who grew up in a Christian home, I can often forget the gravity of this truth. While I was an enemy of God, God loved me enough to send his son to die on a cross for me. While I was obsessed with what…
Read MoreFinding Jesus Through the Easter Story
This Holy Week – join Host Melinda Estabrooks, the See Hear Love Team and special guest Abdu Murray the North American Director of RZIM and a former Muslim who found Jesus through the Easter story … as they share their thoughts on the importance of Easter and how the death and resurrection of Jesus has…
Read MoreLessons from a Cadbury Creme Egg
I have a love / hate relationship with those Cadbury Crème Eggs. Like… I hate how much I love them. It is a really good thing that they only come out once a year because I cannot check out at the grocery store without getting one. Not even one time. So, it might just surprise…
Read More5 Ways to Invite Friends to Church (Without Making it Weird)
With the celebration of Easter weekend upon us, it is one of the last fledgling touch points in our post- Christian culture for unchurched people to engage with a Christian celebration. This means that more than any other time of the year, Easter is one of the best times to leverage the opportunity to invite…
Read MoreChrist is Risen
Christ is Risen! As we celebrate Easter today, we celebrate that CHRIST IS RISEN from the Dead! He is Risen Indeed! And, one of my favourite songs that I LOVE to sing during Holy Week and really, all year ’round, is this song, Christ is Risen by Matt Maher. Here are the lyrics to the…
Read MoreSmoke and Mirrors
Smoke and Mirrors A few days ago I was eating dinner with family, including my 7 year old niece. We began a discussion of Easter and what it means. When we got beyond the egg hunts and the Easter bunny, I began teaching her about why we celebrate Easter as the resurrection of Jesus from…
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