EP 37: Favorite Easter Traditions

In honor of holy week, I 'm sharing a few of our family’s favorite Easter traditions today.

Although I love baskets and bunnies and colorful candy as much as anyone, we’ve always tried to place the main emphasis of this season on the sacrificial death and bodily resurrection of Jesus – and on what Christ’s finished work means to those who put their faith in Him. 

For specific ways to do this, listen in this week's episode in full.

Show Notes RELATED LINKS:

- Scripture Chain for Lent (free printable)

- The Easter Story by Carol Heyer (children's picture book)

- Passion Week Trivia Quiz (free printable)

- Easter Coloring Pages (and other free resources)

- Empty Tomb Craft (super easy craft for children)

- Resurrection Cookies (recipe)

- Resurrection Rolls (recipe)

- Jelly Bean Gospel (free printable)

- More Gospel Tracts for Easter (free printable single-fold tracts)

- DIY Resurrection Eggs (free printable)

- Scrambled Egg Puzzles (free printable)

- Finger Lights (for glow-in-the dark egg hunts)

- "Let Them Know" (parody of Disney song from Frozen)

- "All About God's Grace" (parody of Meaghan Trainor song)

- "Never Enough" (parody of song from The Greatest Showman)

SCRIPTURES CITED:

- Matthew 27:26 - "... he had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified."

- Matthew 26:12 - "When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial."

- Luke 23:36 - "The soldiers also came up and mocked him. They offered him wine vinegar..."

- 1 John 4:9 - “God loved us and sent His son.”

- Matthew 28:6: “He is risen just as he said.” 

- Romans 6:20-23 - "For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness...."

- Ephesians 2:1 – "You were dead in your trespasses and sins."

- Ephesians 4:18-19 - "They are darkened in their understanding and alienated...."

- Psalms 14:1-3 - "They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good...."

- Isaiah 59:9-13 – “We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom." 

- Jeremiah 17:9 - “The heart is more deceitful than all else and desperately wicked...."

- Mark 7:21-23 – “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries...”

- Romans 3:10-18 - “There is no one righteous....There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

- Romans 5:8 - “...while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

- Isaiah 53:5-6 – “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities...."

- Romans 6:23 - For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ...."

- John 3:16-17 – “For God so loved the world, that He gave