Holy Week: The Easter Story
~ Easter Week Day by Day ~
The Bible gives a good description of the last week of Jesus leading up to his death, burial and resurrection. The following is a compliation of devitionals and scripture for Easter week. Reading each devotional or scripture reference below will make the last week in the life of Jesus come to life.
Palm Sunday: Jesus Comes As King
~ Palm Sunday: Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King ~ Palm Sunday 21 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone says…
Holy Monday: The Authority of Jesus
~ Holy Monday, when Jesus shows His authority as King! ~ Jesus at the Temple 12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’[a] but you are making it…
Holy Tuesday: Jesus Curses the Fig Tree
~ Holy Tuesday: Jesus Curses the Fig Tree for Not Producing Fruit ~ Holy Tuesday: Jesus Curses the Fig Tree Holy Tuesday. Jesus curses the fig tree that doesn’t produce fruit – the old order of religion, because He is the New Order and the New Temple!
~ Holy Wednesday: The Impending Death of Jesus ~ Holy Wednesday is represented as the day it was recognized by some that Jesus must die. At a dinner a week before, Mary, the sister of Lazarus, breaks open a valuable bottle of perfume (worth about 300 pieces of silver) and pours it over Jesus’s feet to honor Him. This represents…
Maundy Thursday: The Covenant
~ Maundy Thursday: The Covenant of the Passover ~ Today is Maundy Thursday. Maundy means covenant. It is the day that Jesus shared the Passover meal with His disciples and gave them a new covenant. This covenant was one of freedom from death and was based on His sacrifice – that of His life in exchange for our sin! It…
Good Friday: The Cross
~ Good Friday: The Cross of Jesus ~ The prophet Isaiah spoke these words, foreshadowing the death of a Savior, about 700 years before the birth of Christ. In approximately 33AD, this prophecy was fulfilled. Jesus was arrested, questioned, brutally beaten, mocked, scourged, stripped, tried, passed back and forth between Pontus Pilate and Herod (the Roman and the Jewish leaders),…
Holy Saturday: Joseph of Arimathea
~ Joseph of Arimathea Lays the Body of Jesus in the Tomb and It Is Sealed ~ Holy Saturday: Joseph of Arimathea “Now when evening had come, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus. This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded…
Easter: Christ Is Risen!
~ Easter: Christ Is Risen! He is risen indeed! ~ Easter is arguably the most important holiday for on the Christian calendar. Our faith hinges on this cornerstone event. Easter commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ three days after his death on the cross. Luke 24:6-7 tells us, “He has risen!” This one event defines our faith, that the Father loved us…
~ Easter: Christ Is Risen! He is risen indeed! ~ Easter is arguably the most important holiday for on the Christian calendar. Our faith hinges on this cornerstone event. Easter commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ three days after his death on the cross. Luke 24:6-7 tells us, “He has risen!” This one event defines our faith, that the Father loved us…
Easter: The Intentionality of Jesus
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