More to the Easter Story-Lent Devotionals 2019

Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, March 6th and will continue for 40 days plus the Sabbath rests. This year, the Lent Devotional Series is entitled “More to the Easter Story” and applies the admonition from Advent (“Just tell My story”) to the Easter story because there’s always more than meets the eye.

Given the retail store displays appearing right after any Valentine’s love for chocolate has grown cold–and gets set up in the Clearance Aisle at 70% off– you’d think that Easter was really all about chicks and bunnies, eggs and candies of varying kinds. But there’s more to the Easter story than a superficial commercialization. You won’t find chicks, bunnies, or candies in this Easter story. There’s an egg, but not for hunting.

Beginning with the time that Jesus set out resolutely for Jerusalem until the empty tomb, there’s so much more to Jesus’ story at the time we call Easter, for Him the Passover. Let’s listen in His own words from the Gospel of Luke (with a few of mine for painting the scene) to let His Word shine.

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Acknowledging that former years’ devotional series remain popular:

Lent 2013 looked at The Letter to the Romans: Paul’s Masterpiece to reclaim foundations of our Christian heritage and began February 13, 2013.
A very special and ever popular offering was Lent 2014’s Be Still and Know that I AM God which can be obtained through the archives beginning in March 2014.
Lent 2015 began on February 18, 2015 with a series entitled With Christ in the Upper Room: Final Preparations. We explored what is often called “The Upper Room Discourse” found in John chapters 13-17.
ReKindle, the Lent 2016 series, began on February 10, 2016 and encouraged us to rekindle our spiritual lives.
Light: There’s Nothing Like It was the 2017 Lent series and explored this metaphor often used to portray Christ. It is archived beginning March 1, 2017.
Lent 2018, we explored the questions of Pi and Chi (the Greek letter beginning the word Christos, which means Christ, Messiah, the Anointed One). We asked and answered the questions “Why?” from the movie Life of Pi as we discovered the uniqueness of Jesus Christ in a world of many faiths.