Exodus 12:51

How is your family preparing for Easter? Through this short and sweet devotional (especially helpful if you’re teaching little ones with short attention spans), Scott James brings to light the many things that Christ’s life and resurrection means for us not only through the season of Lent, but all year long.

Our world is more connected than ever yet also increasingly isolated. Deep down, we sense that something foundational is missing. How can we recapture the peace and community we lack? One way is by exploring the power of language. In the following reflections, we will focus on five words and explore how their similar, nuanced definitions of humility can help us grow personally, in our faith, and in our relationships.

It must have seemed to Moses like a long way from a burning bush to a caravan of 2,000,000 Israelites lined up behind him on the road out of Egypt. But Moses simply followed God’s will one step at a time daring to follow God from the known to the unknown. He did the next thing, took the next step in obedience, seeking to know and follow the will of God.

In this 8-day study, we will walk through the passion narratives and unpack how Jesus and his disciples understood them as fulfillments of Old Testament prefigurations of Jesus. Our starting point is that Jesus himself was the first to point out these scriptural connections to the disciples (Luke 24:44-46). And, just as the Holy Spirit opened their minds to understand the things Jesus taught them, we will ask the Spirit to similarly illumine us (John 14:26; 16:12-15).