Palm Sunday – Holy Week Begins

Today is Palm Sunday….the day set aside to remember the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. It marks the beginning of Holy Week for Christians around the world.  Holy Week that culminates in the observance of Christ’s death on the cross (Good Friday) and His amazing resurrection (Easter Sunday) is truly the foundation of Christianity [...]

Easter Family Photos

I’ve always loved getting us all dressed up on Easter Sunday in color coordinating and/or matching dresses for the girls.  Besides making for beautiful photos, it also creates wonderful memories and gives us a unique sense of family togetherness and unity.  The girls can tell you many a funny story about their Easter, Christmas & [...]

Happy Easter

When we wake up on Easter morning all the black ribbons are gone from the table and mantle and they are blaze with color and new life, looking like this -

After sunrise service we unveil the Easter basket (yes we only have one family basket – another joy of having a large family!) and everyone enjoys [...]

Christ is Risen!

He is Risen Indeed!
In the very early morning hours while it was still dark my mother would awaken us up from our slumber exclaiming in a hushed tone – “Christ is Risen!” – and of course we were expected to respond – “He is Risen Indeed!” (which we always did although sometimes quite unenthusiastically when [...]

Easter Eggs & Cookie Creations

The Saturday between Good Friday & Easter Sunday is filled with preparations for our celebration.  Besides cleaning the house, prepping for our Easter brunch and last minute Easter outfit coordinating, we make our traditional sugar cookies in the shape of a cross & Easter eggs and we dye Easter eggs!  These are fun filled, memorable activities [...]

The Excellent Easter Egg Hunt

We are blessed to have a group of believing friends (all of us who attend different churches & denominations) who get together once a month for praise, prayer, fellowship & food – based on the scriptures found in Acts 2:42 – “and they came together for the apostles teaching, the breaking of bread, fellowship & [...]

Making the connection – Christmas to Easter

As I shared at Christmas we always make a point to connect the birth of Christ and that celebration to His ultimate purpose – His death & resurrection. At Christmas the first ornament we put on the tree is a nail to remind us of this, as well as reading “The Tale of Three Trees”. [...]

Pictures from Good Friday

Our yummy hot cross buns! The final candle on the cross stays lit until noon.

Rebekah loves hot cross buns! We all enjoyed sitting down around the table to enjoy this “sweet” tradition.

After our devotional reading we extinguish the final candle & drape a black cloth over our cross.  It stays that way until Easter Sunday [...]

Good Friday

It is sad to me that this most important day to our Christian faith – Good Friday – is often just overlooked as “just another day”. The day that Jesus Christ hung on the cross enduring the pain, agony and shame, not for anything he had done, but for us!  To save us from our sin. To [...]

Our Passover Christian Seder

It has been almost a decade since we decided as a family that we wanted to celebrate the Last Supper during Holy Week.  If you are familiar with the story then you know that the “Last Supper” was actually the first day of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread or the Passover which is celebrated by the [...]

A Flock of Hope

Tonight was the final “sacrificial meal” of the Lenten season.  (you can read about that tradition here)  We decided to donate the money we saved by eating only rice & pretzels each Wednesday night since Ash Wednesday to the Heifer Project.  This organization is committed to ending world hunger and one of the ways they [...]

Holy Week Begins – Celebrating Palm Sunday

After preparing our hearts during the past five weeks with our Wednesday Lent observance of a sacrificial meal – we are always ready for the arrival of Holy Week – which is the pinnacle of our Christian faith.
Today is Palm Sunday – the day to remember the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem.  After attending [...]

A Season of Sacrifice – Observing Lent

Last Wednesday we began our yearly observance of Lent.  The season of Lent is yet another great opportunity to teach our faith to our children throughout the year. For those of you who are new to these more traditional religious  observations let me give a quick overview of Lent.
Information on Lent
In most Christian denominations, Lent is the forty-day [...]