Easter Devotions
While we are not restricted to thinking about the Cross once a year, Easter allows us to set time aside, reflect deeply, give thanks, and celebrate what it means to us. Holy Week provides another opportunity to prepare our hearts to remember the events of Calvary, and our Lord who died there.
While we are not restricted to thinking about the Cross once a year, Easter allows us to set time aside, reflect deeply, give thanks, and celebrate what it means to us. Holy Week provides another opportunity to prepare our hearts to remember the events of Calvary, and our Lord who died there.
Below are a couple of resources that you can use during Holy Week to help focus your mind on the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. This list isn’t exhaustive; they are just some ideas! And if you have another resource you are using - let us know in the comments what you will be reading!
Easter Explained: An 8-Day Guide to Celebrating Holy Week
(Life.Church, Digital Reading Plan)
How would you spend the last week of your life knowing that it was your last? The last week Jesus was on earth in human form was filled with memorable moments, fulfilled prophecies, intimate prayer, deep discussion, symbolic acts, and world-changing events.
Designed to start the Monday before Easter, each day of this Life.Church Bible Plan walks you through the unfolding story of Holy week.
Woven - A Holy Week Devotional
(The Bible Society NI, Book / eBook)
Holy Week: the greatest week in all of history. Eight days woven into the fabric of countless lives changed forever.
Pause, ponder and journey through the teaching, trials, tears and triumph of the final week of Jesus’ life through this devotional by our friends at Bible Society Northern Ireland.
Available to order in both hard copy format and digital.
Jesus: Understanding His Death and Resurrection
(Precept Ireland, Book / YouTube)
In this powerful study centered on the final chapters of the Gospel of Mark, you'll consider for yourself all that Jesus endured to bring forgiveness to sinners and hope to the hopeless. And you'll understand as never before why it's so essential to share with others the good news of His death and resurrection.
Jesus: Understanding His Death and Resurrection
If you want to follow the study, you can also watch each study on YouTube.
Jesus: Understanding His Death and Resurrection Video Series
Easter Lightning Studies
(Precept Ireland, Printable)
This short series of 3 Lightning Studies asks the questions, why did Jesus live? Why did he die? And asks what it means for us now that He lives again! These studies use basic inductive Bible study skills such as marking words and making lists in order to dig deeper into Scripture.
Maybe you’re not one for reading… why not listen to an audiobook or podcast?
Preparing for Easter: Fifty Devotional Readings by C.S. Lewis
(Audible.co.uk, Audiobook)
Preparing for Easter is a concise, handy companion for the faithful of all Christian traditions and the curious to help them deepen their knowledge and consideration of this holy season - a time of reflection as we consider Jesus' sacrifice and his joyous rise from the dead.
Carefully curated, each selection in Preparing for Easter draws on a major theme in Lewis' writings on the Christian life as well as others that consider why we can have confident faith in what happened on the cross.
Preparing for Easter: Fifty Devotional Readings by C.S. Lewis
The Characters of Easter with Dan Darling
(LifeAudio.com, Podcast)
In The Characters of Easter with Dan Darling, you'll become acquainted with the unlikely collection of ordinary people who witnessed the miracle of Christ's death and resurrection. This podcast is the companion to Dan Darling's book "The Characters of Easter: The Villains, Heroes, Cowardsm and Crooks Who Witnessed History's Biggest Miracle."
You can listen to all episodes at LifeAudio.com, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Pocket Casts.
LIGHTNING STUDY: Running to Win
What does resilience in our walk with God look like and how can we persevere? The apostle Peter knew that his life was soon to be over when he wrote his second letter and he has much to teach us that will help us on our journey.
What does resilience in our walk with God look like and how can we persevere? The apostle Peter knew that his life was soon to be over when he wrote his second letter and he has much to teach us that will help us on our journey.
Join us as we explore this further in our new Lightning Study - Running to Win.
To download this free study to print at home, just click the button below.
MINI STUDY: FORGIVENESS (part 2)
Our need of God's forgiveness is an affront to our desire to pay our own debts. To atone for our sins with our own good works, blind to our sinfulness before the most holy God, and those destined for His eternal punishment.
However, the Good News is that it doesn't have to be this way. That God through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, has a made a way for us to be brought back into right relationship with Him, to know His mercy, our sins forgiven, if we would but come with empty hands to Him and receive it.
Our need of God's forgiveness is an affront to our desire to pay our own debts. To atone for our sins with our own good works, blind to our sinfulness before the most holy God, and those destined for His eternal punishment.
However, the Good News is that it doesn't have to be this way. That God through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, has a made a way for us to be brought back into right relationship with Him, to know His mercy, our sins forgiven, if we would but come with empty hands to Him and receive it.
In this a two-part mini study we began by looking at the gift of God's grace (unmerited favour) offered to us in Jesus, before turning now to explore in part two of the study how we who have come to know the Father's mercy are called as His beloved children to be merciful like Him.
To download any of the studies in the series to print at home, just click the button below.
MINI STUDY: FORGIVENESS
Our need of God's forgiveness is an affront to our desire to pay our own debts. To atone for our sins with our own good works, blind to our sinfulness before the most holy God, and those destined for His eternal punishment.
However, the Good News is that it doesn't have to be this way. That God through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, has a made a way for us to be brought back into right relationship with Him, to know His mercy, our sins forgiven, if we would but come with empty hands to Him and receive it.
Our need of God's forgiveness is an affront to our desire to pay our own debts. To atone for our sins with our own good works, blind to our sinfulness before the most holy God, and those destined for His eternal punishment.
However, the Good News is that it doesn't have to be this way. That God through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, has a made a way for us to be brought back into right relationship with Him, to know His mercy, our sins forgiven, if we would but come with empty hands to Him and receive it.
In this a two-part mini study we begin by looking at the gift of God's grace (unmerited favour) offered to us in Jesus, before exploring in part two how we who have come to know the Father's mercy are called as His beloved children to be merciful like Him.
To download study one in the series - Amazing Grace to print at home, just click the button below.
Bear one another's burdens - Galatians Study 6
No other Gospel. That is the message that rings out loud and clear from the book of Galatians. The Good News of God's grace to us in Christ, that through faith in Him we are delivered from God's wrath and those empowered by the Spirit to live godly lives.
No other Gospel. That is the message that rings out loud and clear from the book of Galatians. The Good News of God's grace to us in Christ, that through faith in Him we are delivered from God's wrath and those empowered by the Spirit to live godly lives.
This month we conclude our mini-study series on the book of Galatians, when we explore further selected verses in each chapter, and seek to live in obedience to the truth we discover.
To download study six in the series - Bear one another’s burdens to print at home click the button below.
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