Posts in Easter
Betrayal

While Easter is the season for us to evaluate the death and resurrection of Jesus, I’ll be the first to admit that I sometimes gloss over the heavy importance of his sacrifice.

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EasterJulia Bellendir
Room

One of the hardest disciplines I’m trying to develop is letting people take care of me. I am the carer. I am the nurturer. I don’t need anyone else to take care of me because I take care of myself and my family.

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EasterMaggie Cannon
Earthly Expectations

Last week we read about the sacrifices the disciples made to follow Jesus. They left family, friends, careers, and everything else behind to join Jesus’s ministry. Although they exchanged the known for the unknown, I wonder if the disciples had any assumptions or expectations of Jesus early on. Hear me out.

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EasterJenna Taylor
Your Calling. Your Sacrifice.

Maybe you’ve read a story of someone who leaves everything behind to obey God’s calling and thought to yourself, “That’s awesome, good for them. But there is no way that God would ask me to do something like that...or even if he did, I would never do it.”

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EasterLauren Ray
Giving Up Everything

If you were to ask me a month ago to write a blog about sacrifice, it would have been a fluffy, superficial piece of writing that lacked substance. However, it’s not “a month ago” anymore, and this blog will not be a hypothetical, frilly piece about sacrifice.

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EasterLauren Ray
Preparing to Win

Every day is a chance to prepare for the person you want to be. The small things we do as we go along our daily lives are preparing us for something. And I’ve learned that every day, whatever we do and however we do it, we are preparing ourselves to be a certain type of person.

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EasterWill Wood
Easter Purpose

He could have stayed and done what his father had done, his grandfather had done, and likely what his great grandfather had done before him. It was a good living. It was honest work. But sometimes these things do not satisfy that thing inside of us, that calls, in the midst of a normal day. It is a longing that wells up and causes us to ask, “Am I experiencing all there is in life?”

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EasterJoe Wood
I Saw Jesus...

It has always struck me odd that the birth of Jesus garners so much celebration while his resurrection from the dead barely gets a nod from an Easter bunny and some chickens.

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EasterJanice Wood