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 What are you looking forward to? 

Some people  are dreaming about vacation. Some people live during the week and they're  just looking ahead to the weekend. Maybe you're looking ahead to some special event like a graduation or a wedding. Maybe you are hoping you'd get married sometime this year or there is some  other big event that's coming up in your life. Maybe you're looking for your favorite sports teams that's gonna win something this year. 

For most and many of us it's the big and the small things that help us look forward.   If you can remember back to Christmas, that was a season of expectation and anticipation. Christmas was a promise that Jesus is going to make things right! Christmas is about hope. Of course Christmas can be a season where we lose hope as well....

What is that thing in our hearts that gives resolve to keep going when we lose hope?

 

It's Jesus. Easter is all about hope fufilled. It is the death, of our death. That should give us all the hope in the world and we should eagerly look forward to that time of year, the day that death died. Are you looking forward to Easter, and what it means? As March begins I would ask us all to prepare for the greatest event in history.

 

How are you and your family preparing for Easter?

I've listed some ideas below to help look forward to the Easter Season

1. Read books to your children about Jesus: His death and RESURRECTION!!
3. View a movie , such as, The Passion of the Christ, The Bible or Risen!!! 
4. Listen to music!
5. Borrow an Easter-themed book by John Piper, John MacArthur, Lee Strobel, Erwin Lutzer or Max Lucado!!
6. Try Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels, by J Warner Wallace