Reflections from Easter

My heart’s prayer over the last six weeks has been to prepare my heart for the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Beginning on Ash Wednesday this year I began a journey unlike any other I have experienced on any other Easter.

I told my children yesterday on the way home from church that my heart was prepared much more this year than any other year.  They immediately chimed in “Me, too!”  I asked them why and here are some of their responses:

“We read Amon’s Adventure.”

“We did the Passover.”

“We prayed more as a family.”

“We did Lent.”

I couldn’t have agreed more with their responses and not because of “the right answer,” but because of the sincerity of their responses.  They truly did have a different Easter experience this year.  

Hosanna to the King

Triumphant Entry

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We have arrived at the week before Easter and I cannot help but reflect on the majesty of our Lord Jesus Christ.  This lental season has been quite different for me than any other previous year.  I have intentionally tried to prepare my heart for the celebration of the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ instead of waiting for Sunday morning as I get dressed for service to prepare my heart.  As a family we have been reading through Amon’s Adventure and gave up watching television.  In addition I gave up something personal only to me and we will celebrate some of the biblical feasts this week that are found in the book Celebrating BiblicalFeasts.  But, as I sit here this Palm Sunday on the water of the Colorado River, ready to praise and lift up my King, I look back over the past six weeks or so since Ash Wednesday and cannot help but glorify my Lord.

Is God on Vibrate? Part 2

So maybe we have moved our lines of communication with God to “ringer on” and off of “vibrate.”  But how do we hear when He speaks to us in the hustle and bustle of our lives?  We’ve all been in places where the noise of the restaurant or store that we were in caused us to miss a call even when our phone was on high and ringing.  What does a life with our God ringer “turned on” and off of vibrate look like?