He is risen! Now what?


Reader,

My heart was full of the Easter spirit last Monday. We'd had a great Sunday service and glorious time with family. When the weekdays rolled around, I wasn't ready to let it go.

So I pulled out my laptop and began searching for an Eastertide reading plan. I wanted to spend deliberate time in the Word, specifically with the resurrected Jesus. And I figured that there'd be a lot of resources out there to help me do that.

Well, I figured wrong.

Apparently, we give all of our liturgical energy to Advent, Christmas, and Lent. Easter? It gets a day in most circles.

They say you should create the things you want to see in the world. Which is exactly what I did. If your heart longs, like mine, to experience Jesus and his self-revelation after Easter, click here to get your Eastertide reading plan.​

I know that the first week of Eastertide is over, but that's okay! You can jump into Week 2 and catch up if you want to.

The point is to spend deliberate time with our risen Savior, as he's revealed to us in the Gospels and elsewhere in Scripture. None of these readings are very long. That's the point. This is a season to read slowly, to pause and notice the scenes we so often flip past, as if they're an afterthought to the "real" work that Christ had already accomplished.

I believe these stories are just as important, and I'm excited to spend time in these pages over the next 40 or so days.

This is a 6-week reading plan that takes you up through the Day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples in tongues of fire. That said, this resource itself is very un-daunting. It's three simple pages with a list of passages for you to spend time in every week.

​Join me in spending time with our risen Savior this Eastertide. Let's discover what happens after "He is Risen!"

Jake

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Dr. Jake Smith Jr.

I'm a faith-fueled formation coach & speaker who develops fully-formed leaders to become who they truly are and live with no regrets.

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