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As you prepare to celebrate Easter this weekend, we challenge you to spend time reading through the biblical account of what the week was like for Jesus and His disciples. We’ll be updating our blog with the Bible passages that correspond with each day.

As you prepare to celebrate Easter this weekend, we challenge you to spend time reading through the biblical account of what the week was like for Jesus and His disciples. We’ll be updating our blog with the Bible passages that correspond with each day.

Yesterday, Palm Sunday, marked the beginning of Holy Week. As you begin to prepare to celebrate Easter this weekend, we challenge you to spend time reading through the biblical account of what the week was like for Jesus and His disciples. We’ll be updating our blog with the Bible passages that correspond with each day.

America is both the most religious and most diverse country in the world. Around nine out of 10 Americans claim they practice at least one of several dozens of religions. Furthermore, the United States is the only developed nation in a recent Pew Research Center study where the majority of citizens reported that religion played a “very important” role in their lives. Understanding our religious landscape is important for evangelical Christians because we are called to live as missionaries in this culture of diversity. We can’t be effective if we are uninformed.

Whether we realize it or not, the values of suburban culture affect us. They shape us. They slyly dictate how we think, act, and feel. And how we follow Jesus. (Or how we don’t follow Jesus, for that matter.) The cultural tide of suburbia is exceedingly difficult to swim against. Almost instinctively, we feel we must have the nice house for our busy family, the nice car to get us to our rewarding job, and the nice neighborhood amenities to make all of life more livable. For followers of Jesus it’s a challenge to engage in worship of Him that goes beyond a weekend church service and invades the space and time of the rest of our “real lives.”

Remember when you got your cell phone? Remember when you finally gave in to texting? Facebook updates? Twitter? For many, it’s fun to put their every thought, their every move out there for the world to see. Everyone’s diary is now shared with the world. But, be careful! Your future employers are looking you up online.

It’s one thing for us to express our joy when everything is going right—when we have a safe bed to sleep in, a steady income, and friends to do life with. But it’s another thing when we retain our joy as everything seems to be going wrong—parents are on the verge of divorce, your friend was diagnosed with a rare illness, and there doesn’t seem to be enough money in the bank to make it to the next payday. Maintaining joy in the face of those issues shouts to the world around us that we have something better.