Easter Messages from Passion

Message

If Jesus Really Rose…

Ben Stuart

34M

Ben Stuart walks us through the final seven of our fifty implications of the resurrection and leads us to celebrate our risen Lord.

Ben Stuart walks us through the final seven of our fifty implications of the resurrection and leads us to celebrate our risen Lord.

Message

March Madness Up in Here

Louie Giglio

32M

For this special Easter talk, Louie Giglio celebrates the greatest week in the history of the world and the empty tomb that saves us from empty lives and an empty eternity. He teaches that all roads end here, and it’s time to come and see what He has done.

For this special Easter talk, Louie Giglio celebrates the greatest week in the history of the world and the empty tomb that saves us from empty lives and an empty eternity. He teaches that all roads end here, and it’s time to come and see what He has done.

Article

The Irony of Palm Sunday: A Meditation

Thomas Barr

4M

Reflecting on the Palm Sundays of my youth, I remember walking out of church with a cross-shaped leaf in hand. I remember waving a branch bigger than me. I remember singing songs with a word (hosanna?) that I never once used in an English literature class. I remember a preacher mentioning a man, a donkey, and some redneck-ish red carpet made of old coats. I remember… being confused.  Why the religious luau? Why the palm branches? Why the donkey? Why coats on the ground instead of on shoulders? Why hosanna? Why Palm Sunday? Why is this…

Reflecting on the Palm Sundays of my youth, I remember walking out of church with a cross-shaped leaf in hand. I remember waving a branch bigger than me. I remember singing songs with a word (hosanna?) that I never once used in an English literature class. I remember a preacher mentioning a man, a donkey, and some redneck-ish red carpet made of old coats. I remember… being confused.  Why the religious luau? Why the palm branches? Why the donkey? Why coats on the ground instead of on shoulders? Why hosanna? Why Palm Sunday? Why is this…

Article

Holy Monday: Jesus Turns the Tables

Passion Equip

5M

He entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. (Mark 11:15) This particular Monday may have felt like the proverbial Monday morning in the modern Western world — a time to reengage the grind and get back to work. Jesus, indeed, walked into Jerusalem to take care of business. The meek and mild Jesus of progressive “tolerance” that so many of our contemporaries have come to prefer was nowhere to be found when he…

He entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. (Mark 11:15) This particular Monday may have felt like the proverbial Monday morning in the modern Western world — a time to reengage the grind and get back to work. Jesus, indeed, walked into Jerusalem to take care of business. The meek and mild Jesus of progressive “tolerance” that so many of our contemporaries have come to prefer was nowhere to be found when he…

Article

Holy Tuesday: The Last Parables

Jake Daghe

7M

How intentional would you be with your time if you knew you only had a few days left to live? How purposeful would you be with your words? Who you spent time with? What activities or experiences you do? The thought of an impending loss naturally heightens the importance of the minutes and moments that come before. That’s why most of us who have lost someone can still recall, likely in vivid detail, a last conversation or a last experience; loss tends to imprint memories in the deepest part of our souls. Knowing this, I want to challenge us not…

How intentional would you be with your time if you knew you only had a few days left to live? How purposeful would you be with your words? Who you spent time with? What activities or experiences you do? The thought of an impending loss naturally heightens the importance of the minutes and moments that come before. That’s why most of us who have lost someone can still recall, likely in vivid detail, a last conversation or a last experience; loss tends to imprint memories in the deepest part of our souls. Knowing this, I want to challenge us not…

Article

Holy Wednesday: A Lament of Judas

James Vore

3M

What is the cost of your devotion?  What is the price for your betrayal?  Holy Week should call us to reflection. It is a chance to pause and to feel ourselves all at once swept along by the echoes of church history and purely present in our current state. While the world around us rushes by, hurried and hurtled through another day, another week, another year, we are invited to momentarily stop time in that way that only happens when we are in the presence of the one who holds it.  Will…

What is the cost of your devotion?  What is the price for your betrayal?  Holy Week should call us to reflection. It is a chance to pause and to feel ourselves all at once swept along by the echoes of church history and purely present in our current state. While the world around us rushes by, hurried and hurtled through another day, another week, another year, we are invited to momentarily stop time in that way that only happens when we are in the presence of the one who holds it.  Will…

Article

How To Talk To Your Kids About Good Friday

Emily Vogeltanz

3M

Why is Good Friday called good? As a child, I remember feeling confused by Good Friday. To me the idea of Jesus being hurt and killed seemed anything but good. Even now as a mother to 4, I’ve seen the same question in the eyes of my children as we’ve discussed the events leading up to Easter.  For many families of small children, we can be tempted to gloss over the brutality of Passover week and simply celebrate with peeps, pastels, and baskets rather than talking about the historical fact and life-transforming truth of these important…

Why is Good Friday called good? As a child, I remember feeling confused by Good Friday. To me the idea of Jesus being hurt and killed seemed anything but good. Even now as a mother to 4, I’ve seen the same question in the eyes of my children as we’ve discussed the events leading up to Easter.  For many families of small children, we can be tempted to gloss over the brutality of Passover week and simply celebrate with peeps, pastels, and baskets rather than talking about the historical fact and life-transforming truth of these important…

Article

Holy Saturday: Now, We Wait

Kaitlin Febles

6M

In all of Holy Week, Saturday may be the day about which the least is written but from which we can draw some of the greatest encouragement and hope. On this day, everything pauses after a week of dramatic and suspenseful events—from Jesus’ triumphal entry on Palm Sunday to His clearing of the temple on Monday to His initiation of communion on Maundy Thursday to His arrest, trial, and crucifixion on Good Friday.  But on Saturday, we wait.  As readers, it’s as though the first half of the drama has come to a close—a…

In all of Holy Week, Saturday may be the day about which the least is written but from which we can draw some of the greatest encouragement and hope. On this day, everything pauses after a week of dramatic and suspenseful events—from Jesus’ triumphal entry on Palm Sunday to His clearing of the temple on Monday to His initiation of communion on Maundy Thursday to His arrest, trial, and crucifixion on Good Friday.  But on Saturday, we wait.  As readers, it’s as though the first half of the drama has come to a close—a…

Song

I’ve Witnessed It

Passion Music

8M

Unless we’re talking about our favorite true crime podcast or courtroom drama, we don’t often use the word “witness” in our everyday vernacular. It may feel a bit antiquated or like a word only evangelists use when they are encouraging us to share our faith. However, Eugene Peterson says “a witness is never the center but only the person who points to or names what is going on at the center…” And Paul tells us in Colossians 1:15-17 that, “the Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were…

Unless we’re talking about our favorite true crime podcast or courtroom drama, we don’t often use the word “witness” in our everyday vernacular. It may feel a bit antiquated or like a word only evangelists use when they are encouraging us to share our faith. However, Eugene Peterson says “a witness is never the center but only the person who points to or names what is going on at the center…” And Paul tells us in Colossians 1:15-17 that, “the Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were…

Message

Savior of the World

Louie Giglio

42M

In this Easter message, Louie Giglio addresses two main questions: Are the gospels the word of Jesus? And can they be trusted? He responds with a resounding yes, emphasizing that the Bible is the most authenticated and validated ancient document that you will ever hold in your hands, verifying that Jesus is the savior of the world.

In this Easter message, Louie Giglio addresses two main questions: Are the gospels the word of Jesus? And can they be trusted? He responds with a resounding yes, emphasizing that the Bible is the most authenticated and validated ancient document that you will ever hold in your hands, verifying that Jesus is the savior of the world.

Song

What He’s Done

Passion Music

7M

What do you think is one of the most repeated commands in Scripture? There are the famous Ten Commandments, a plethora of additional commands the Israelites were supposed to obey in the Old Testament, and of course the greatest commandment: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind’… And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.'” (Matthew 22:37,39) But the command we are given more often than most throughout Scripture may surprise you. It is not a warning or a “thou shalt not.” It is simply…

What do you think is one of the most repeated commands in Scripture? There are the famous Ten Commandments, a plethora of additional commands the Israelites were supposed to obey in the Old Testament, and of course the greatest commandment: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind’… And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.'” (Matthew 22:37,39) But the command we are given more often than most throughout Scripture may surprise you. It is not a warning or a “thou shalt not.” It is simply…