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Throughout the rest of the week, you will hear about Jesus’ death and resurrection. While Jesus was sent to walk the Earth and, ultimately, live to die for us, He was also sent to model sacrifice and obedience. So, when Mary gave away her most-prized position to show honor and respect to Jesus, it modeled that there is no earthly possession above Him.

Jesus loves those in rebellion against Him as much as He loves those in relationship with Him! Tuesday is a day for questions. So let me give you one: "How do you explain a love that is beyond explanation? Answer: You don't… You just receive it!

As we enter Holy Week, may our faith in Jesus be real, evidenced by the fruit produced in our lives, and may our faith be strong, believing God can do so much more than what we have attributed to Him.

The question I’m challenging us all to wrestle with today is: “Do I celebrate Easter as a shiny new gift with Peeps and chocolate and move on? Or do I celebrate Easter, and every day, with enormous gratitude for Jesus rescuing me when I was flooded and drowning in sin, guilt and shame?”

I love the Easter season because, as people are getting baptized, you get to hear their testimonies. However, I noticed that some people get shy about sharing their testimony because it is not dramatic or crazy, where you had to be a drug dealer or be in jail. Those testimonies are good, and we need to hear them, but we cannot dismiss the testimony that God has given to each of us!

Your present sufferings don’t disqualify you from celebrating the goodness of resurrection. Instead, they make the goodness of Easter all the more real, because when you’ve experienced the pain of death then you can truly cherish the beauty of life.

As parents, it is our position to model Christ for our kiddos. By instilling these spiritual rhythms, my prayer is that when Omri is older and in need, he will turn to the things of God and not the things of this world.

I’m not sure what you looked at the cross and thought previously, but I pray that you look at it now with just a little more thoughtfulness. And no matter how heavy your cross may feel today, may you carry it with the exact confidence Jesus created for you, one day at a time.

Memories are good, and it is the memory of what Jesus did for us on the cross and His Resurrection from the grave that make these specific memories some of the best we could ever have.

Think about the night Jesus was betrayed. He taught His disciples, in a beautiful way, what it meant to be His follower. The roads were dusty in Jesus’ time and when arriving as guests for a dinner, the lowest of the servants' jobs was to wash the feet of the guests. And yet, who was it that took over and served this particular evening? It was Jesus.