Katrina's Musings: Preparation for Easter

Monday, March 21, 2011

Preparation for Easter

The past several years, I've spent at least the preceding month before Easter focusing on Christ in my daily Bible reading time or in other focused activities around that time (i.e., memorizing Scripture, a specific devotional book).

A couple ideas for you:

This year, a friend and I are memorizing Isaiah 53 during this month leading up to Resurrection Day. John 1 (or a section of it) would be another excellent passage to memorize for this occasion.
Ladies, Nancy Leigh DeMoss (from Revive Our Hearts ministry) is focusing her teaching on the book The Incomparable Christ by J Oswald Sanders over the next month. She recommends getting the book and reading a chapter each day while following along with her teachings on her daily radio broadcast.

What will you do to focus on Christ during this time?

2 comments:

JulieMarch 25, 2011 at 12:01 PM
Wonderful ideas, Katrina. I will plan on memorizing Isaiah 53 as well (I had that memorized with my CE class a couple years ago so it should come back to me fairly quickly). I will also read through John Piper's book, Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die and Lee Strobel's little booklet, The Case for Easter (subtitle, A Journalist Investigates the Evidence for the Resurrection).
Julie
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KatrinaMarch 25, 2011 at 7:36 PM
Good ideas. Thanks for sharing them, Julie. I'm excited we'll be memorizing the passage during this time as well.
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I'm a wife, daughter, sister, aunt, and friend. I live in Minnesota with my husband, Greg. I exist to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him known in all that I do. This blog is one of my attempts to do just that. I believe that there is no such thing in life as mundane moments. God uses them all for His glory and for His purposes. I'll attempt to demonstrate that with this blog through my various musings about living an ordinary life while serving an extraordinary God.

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--Ephesians 1:7-10

In the infinite wisdom of the Lord of all the earth, each event falls with exact precision into its proper place in the unfolding of His divine plan. Nothing, however small, however strange, occurs without His ordering, or without its particular fitness for its place in the working out of His purpose; and the end of all shall be the manifestation of His glory, and the accumulation of His praise.

--Benjamin Warfield