What is Jesus like? How we answer that question determines how we relate to Him. Religious imagery often depicts Jesus as an ethereal mystic, stoic and enigmatic. Not the kind of person you’d expect to be good for a laugh. But Luke’s account of the first Easter shows us a very different side of Jesus — His playfulness and joy. When we see that Jesus is in a good mood it changes how we relate to Him.

WThe resurrection of Jesus was the most important event in history. Without it, there would be no Christianity, and Jesus would just be another historical footnote. But the resurrection validated everything that Jesus said about Himself. Not only does that give us hope for eternity, it means we can experience Him today.

What happens when Jesus shows up in our lives in a different way than we were expecting? When He intentionally defies our expectations and invites us into a different journey? Lauren looks at Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem in our fun-filled Palm Sunday service.

What was the agenda of Jesus? Barry Manson shares how Jesus came to bring a new Kingdom and invited us to be ambassadors of it. But he didn’t just leave us to do it on our own — He enabled us to be continually filled with His Spirit. This makes a way for us to know and walk in His power and authority as we bring His Kingdom in the earth.

When hardship and tragedy strike, the pain and loss can feel all-consuming. But in the book of Ruth, we read about how God cared for two women who had recently lost their husbands and wove a story of redemption out of their loss. Yvonne Ewen (from River Church in Banff, Scotland) shares how their story gives us confidence that God can redeem anything.

So much of learning to love well comes down to embracing Paul’s exhortation to “consider others more important than yourselves.” But what does that look like?

Todd concludes the Learning to Love series with four ways we can “consider others” in the mundane moments of everyday life.

The sad reality of living in a broken world is that we will have enemies. Our natural response is to retaliate, but Jesus commans us to love our enemies.