Category: Holidays

Passion Week Devos: Monday

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Monday: His Preaching – Give all to Him
Read Luke 19:45-21:4

Prayer: Father, they dragged buying and selling even into your house. How easy it is for me to get caught up in the buying and selling of our culture. Help me be like the widow who willingly gave all to you. All that I have is from you; it is yours – do with it as you please. Even my life is from you, and you made me in your likeness, so help me give myself to you – even as your Son gave himself for me. Amen.

Reflect/Discuss: What would it look like to live according to this prayer?

Praise: Sing “Take My Life”

New Year’s Collection

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It is time to ponder some new year’s resolutions!  Here are some good posts as you reflect upon your life this past year, and how God might be leading you to grow in 2016:

Ten Questions to Ask at the Start of a New Year – Donald Whitney

One Big Tip to Make Your Resolutions Stick – Tim Challies

Striving for a More Intentional Life of Prayer – Erik Raymond

The Church Comes First – Nick Batzig

Passion Week Collection

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Here are some good posts for Passion Week:

The Passion Week Infographic – Josh Byers
A chronological timeline of the major events that happened during Jesus’ last week before he died and rose again.

Eater Timeline and Geography – Three Passions
This collection of two resources from a few years back is already the most popular post on my blog right now.

The Savior’s Tears of Sovereign Mercy: Palm Sunday – John Piper (DG)
Jesus Turns The Tables: Holy Monday – Jonathan Parnell (DG)
The King We Needed, But Never Wanted: Holy Tuesday – Marshall Segal (DG)
Presumably further reflections will be forthcoming from Desiring God during the rest of the week to help you ponder our Savior’s path to the cross.

New Years Collection

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Here are some good posts to consider as we enter the new year:

How To Make A New Year’s Resolution That Sticks – Tim Challies

10 Questions To Ask at the Start of a New Year – Donald Whitney

3 Reminders as You Enter the New Year 2015 – Brian Najapfour

A Holy and Happy 2015 To You – David Murray

Planning for the New Year – (My collection of new year links from last year)

Bible Reading Plans

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The new year is a great time to commit to start reading through the Bible.  There are many plans out there, and Tim Challies gives us a good list of options.

The one I tend to use can be found in the menu bar above.  It gives you one chapter from the New Testament for 5 days each week, and one Psalm and 2-3 chapter from the Old Testament for 6 days each week.  That gives you one day each week to catch up or review what you learned during the week.

Another approach is to focus on a specific book of the Bible for an extended time by reading it over and over again until you really know the book.  Joe Carter explains this approach here.

Whatever you do, I hope that the coming year will be a year of growth for you in knowing and living out the Word of our Lord!

 

Christmas Collection

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Here are some good posts for Christmas:

Christmas Is the Greatest Mystery – David Mathis (DG)

No Low Too Low – Tim Challies

10 Ways We Can Remember To Be Christians This Christmas – Kevin DeYoung

The Story of Pain and Hope Behind “I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day” – Justin Taylor

Of The Father’s Love Begotten – Kevin DeYoung

I hope you have a merry Christmas celebrating the birth of our Savior!

Passion Points

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Here are some good Passion Week related posts for your weekend reading:

How To Handle Your Sin – Kevin DeYoung
Run to the cross. There you will find salvation for your sin sick self.

God Wants You To Know How Much He Loves You – Jon Bloom (DG)
That’s what Passion Week is for; that you might remember and more deeply know how much God has loved you — so much that he gave his only Son for you
Includes a link to a Desiring God booklet with daily readings for the coming week.

The Passion Week – Infographic – Josh Byers
This week’s infographic, The Passion Week, is a chronological timeline of the major events that happened during Jesus’ last week before he died and rose again.

Some Easter Posts – Three Passions
This is a collection of Easter posts I put together last year, including another Easter week timeline and a short video you should watch every year.

The Thief and Us – Three Passions
Another post from last year worth pondering again.

Hope you have a great Lord’s Day and coming week reflecting on our Savior’s death, burial and resurrection!