This week our church had a three-part Bible study on the Resurrection. We had a great time digging though God’s Word seeking to understand more and more about the meaning and implication of the fact that Jesus is no longer dead, but is alive.

I was most impacted by Romans 4:24-25:

“…Jesus our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.”

RAISED FOR OUR JUSTIFICATION!

Easter is coming. April 24th is only two weeks away, and on that Sunday morning Christians all over the place will worship specifically because of the resurrection. How important is the resurrection?

It cannot be understated… for our right-standing before God Almighty is based on the work of Christ in His death and resurrection.

For those that believe, they are justified before God because of His resurrection.

A few days back I posted about this new book I found called Our Home is like a little Church. It is understatement to say that I love this book. It is so short and true. Very practical for me as a parent and my sons as children.

The introduction to the book has an outstanding quote from Martin Luther. I pray that there would be more and more men and fathers who approach family life, home life, and child-rearing with this great responsibility,  seriousness, and intensity.

Here is the Martin Luther quote :

“Abraham had in his tent a house of God and a church, just as today any godly and pious head of a household instructs his children… in godliness. Therefore such a house is actually a school and church, and the head of the household is a bishop and priest in his house.”

I have been reading David McIntyre’s book The Hidden Life of Prayer. Already I am longing to pray more. I want to share with you this quote about waiting on God.

“But the most familiar, and perhaps the most impressive, description of prayer in the Old Testament is found in those numerous passages where the life of intercourse with God is spoken of as a waiting upon him. A great scholar has given a beautiful definition of waiting upon God: ‘To wait is not merely to remain impassive. It is to expect- to look for with patience, and also with submission. It is to long for, but not impatiently; to look for, but not to fret at the delay; to watch for, but not relentlessly; to feel that if he does not come, we will acquiesce, and yet to refuse to let the mind acquiesce in the feeling that he will not come.’”