The Season of Easter
Easter Articles
What Do These Days Mean? Reflections for Holy Week at Home
One-page handouts for Holy Week help all people better understand their journey with Jesus through his last days.
An Easter Children’s Sermon
A retelling of the Easter story for children that can be used as an Easter children’s sermon, in children’s chapel, or as a tool for parents talking about Easter at home.
Three Teaching Points for Easter
Whether you are planning an adult Easter series, newsletter for families, or Easter prayer stations for youth, here are three teaching points to consider.
10 Easter Encouragements for Ministry Leaders
Easter Monday… you made it! The resurrection unfolds into a season of new life. What does it hold for you? Encouraging words from the Center for the Ministry of Teaching.
Want Easter Guests to Come Back? Invite Them to Your Next Big Thing
Inviting your guests to what is coming up next at your church is an important part of welcoming and evangelism. Easter affords an opportunity to welcome large numbers of new faces to the Next Big Thing with your congregation.
Easter Sunrise Breakfast at Home
An Easter sunrise breakfast is one way families can transmit Christian belief in ways that are authentic to their household.
Why Eggs on Easter? A Christian Answer
Enjoy your chocolate Easter eggs! Eggs are a perfect Easter symbol. Eggs are symbols of new life, just as Christians find new life in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ at Easter.
In the Bustle of Easter… Don’t Forget to Teach Easter!
When to teach Easter is a fundamental question for churches who see high attendance numbers on Easter Sunday but do not offer formational time on the Feast Day.
Finding Jesus in Egg Hunts and Easter Baskets
Two posts to help families and churches add Christian depth and teaching to Egg Hunts and Easter Baskets.
Holy Week Art Project: Making Easter Flags
Tell the story of Jesus’ death and resurrection with each flag-making step. Flags may be made on Palm Sunday, or earlier, and displayed Easter morning.
Build a Better *Biblical* Easter Basket
Jerusalem Greer shows items with connections to Easter, and scripture, to fill a basket that is truly about Easter. Strengthen children’s faith.
Reflection: Easter is my New Lent…
This Easter season, my faith has been changed. And it’s a result of what I gave up for Lent, which would be exactly nothing. Is it a result of what I took on for Lent? Yes, but the answer may surprise you. What I took on for Lent was indulgence. Shocking. Scandalous. Unintentional. But it truly changed me. After all, isn’t that what Lent is supposed to do?
Easter Symbols – What do Bunnies, Eggs, and Bonnets have to do with Jesus?
Our Christian faith is rich in symbolism, both ancient and modern. Easter, after our period of study and repentance, offers us every opportunity to share the Love of God in Jesus Christ and to share our joy that He is risen indeed!
*Chocolate bunnies, meanwhile, don’t have much to teach us about Christianity. They are good to eat, and always the first to go from my Easter basket, starting with the ears!
How to Reinvent Your Easter Egg Hunt, for Good
Like many churches, we have a tradition of an Easter egg hunt for children. It’s one of those things that we just always do, though no one knows when it started. Also like most churches, our attendance doubles on Easter morning, and we have many folks joining us for the first time, but for some reason we cancel Sunday School, and all we show visitors about our church is an egg hunt, which does nothing to tell the Christian story. So last year some of us started wondering aloud about how to send a better message on Easter.
An Interview with Mary Magdalene
A reporter for the Jerusalem Journal, a distant cousin of Mary Magdalene, sat down with Mary Magdalene, privately, in a interview that lasted about an hour. This is the unofficial version of that interview, which up to this time, has never been published.
8 Ways to Live the Great Fifty Days of Easter
Easter is O-V-E-R, and now we are in to school testing, spring vacations, recitals, end of the year concerts, playoff games, exams, preparation for VBS, and some are already getting ready for camp. Wait. I want to celebrate the fifty days of Easter.
9 Children’s Easter Books To Tell The Story of Jesus
Sharing the Easter story with young people is a great joy. These books, with text and images, tell the death and resurrection of Jesus in appropriate ways.
Defending the Easter Egg Hunt!
Our annual Easter Egg Hunt is under attack. Not from parishioners or clergy who question the religiosity of the tradition, nor from the expense of filling plastic eggs with candy, stickers, and tiny toys for a quickly increasing number of children. No, we’re under attack by local wildlife, who after many years of oblivion have suddenly discovered that once a year St. Barnabas holds a smorgasbord served in odd plastic ovals.
Make Easter Dove Cake (recipe included)
The Story of the Dove Cake is an Easter legend in Italy. Once there was a king who wanted to capture a city. His horse did not cooperated and would not enter battle. While trying to get his horse to charge through the city, a young girl offered the horse a piece of cake that was shaped like a dove, the bird of peace. Upon receiving this gift, the king decided not to conquer the city with his army after all.
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