Your Sorrow Will Turn to Joy

Your Sorrow Will Turn to Joy
Author: Desiring God
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2016-03
Genre: Holy Week
ISBN: 9781530381807

Holy Week is not an obligation. It is an opportunity. In the chaos of our increasingly fast-paced and hectic society, the annual coming of Holy Week each spring is a reminder to pause and ponder, to carefully mark each day, and not let this greatest of all weeks fly like every other. It is a chance to walk with the church throughout the world and throughout time as she accompanies her Bridegroom through the eight most important days in the history of the world. And it is an opportunity to focus our minds on, and seek to intensify our affections for, the highest and most timeless realities in the universe. We have assembled a team of eleven pastors and scholars to walk us through Holy Week as we walk together with our Lord. This collection of short meditations includes readings for each morning and evening from Palm Sunday to the triumph of Easter.

Love to the Uttermost

Love to the Uttermost
Author: John Piper
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2014-03-14
Genre: Christian life
ISBN: 9780983916413

Jesus willingly endured unimaginable depths of suffering for his friends. John 13:1 says he loved us to the uttermost. To love to the uttermost is to love freely, without reserve or limit, and without flaw or failure. As we journey with Jesus for eight days-from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday-from triumphal entry, to arrest and trial, to death and burial and triumphant resurrection, we gaze on a God-man who begrudges no pain or reproach on his pathway to redeem lost sinners. Here is the one who "humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross" (Philippians 2:8). In Love to the Uttermost: Devotional Readings for Holy Week, John Piper calls you to fix your eyes steadily on Jesus as he loves you to the uttermost.

Meditations for the Six Days of Holy Week

Meditations for the Six Days of Holy Week
Author: C. Alton Robertson
Publisher: CSS Publishing
Total Pages: 14
Release: 1997
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0788007319

These six meditations offer a time and a place, suggested scripture readings from the gospel texts, and provocative meditations. Participants will experience and share the commitment of fellowship in the days leading up to the surprise and joy of Easter. Each is designed for approximately 15 minutes. Suggested uses: Men's prayer breakfast Women's breakfast or luncheon during Holy Week Youth meetings Each day offers suggested scripture readings and a provocative meditation that enables the participant to experience the pathos of the days leading up to the surprise and joy of Easter. C. Alton Robertson is Associate Pastor at Alfred North Whitehead College for Lifelong Learning, University of Redlands. He also serves as Director of and Faculty Liaison to the Whitehead Academic Advising and Assessment Center. Robertson has earned an M.Div. degree in Systematic Theology from Berkeley Baptist Divinity School, and M.I.A. (International Affairs) and M.Phil. (International Politics) degrees from Columbia University. He served five years on the staff of the National Student Christian Federation and five years as a campus minister on the staff of the Waseda Hoshien Student Christian Center in Tokyo.