Photo of an ancient tomb in Jerusalem by Pisit Heng
Photo from the Garden of Gethsemane by Stacey Franco
Photo of an ancient, empty tomb by Jonny Gios
This is the week where everything slows… where we step gently into the story that changes everything. Holy Week is here.
“Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.” — John 13:1
Little bits of God’s goodness to brighten your day:
watch the sun rise, and exhale: His mercies are new every morning, and darkness never gets the final word
Heart Vitamins for you this week:
Just Incredible!
linger with three sonnets during these sacred days
More from our belltower stories: with jennie allen
a guide to holy week from the bible project
Readings, reflections, and videos to walk you through the week
So good!
a new tradition?
SOUL LEARNING 101 this week:
A Fabulous Series on Jesus’ Final Week
Creative Bits for you this week
Love These!
Must Try!
for your table
right from your pantry!
What we’re listening to on the Farm
Sunday is Coming — Phil Wickham
Post of the week from these parts:
Really, go hold a baby:
for new parents & grandparents & world leaders & all of us
When you hold in your hands an only hours-old human being… undone!
Join us for the final week of Living Loved?
If you’ve been thinking that maybe what we all need right now is a just bit more love, you’re in exactly the right place! This is your invitation into more… into LIVING LOVED: A 40-Day Practice in Loving like Jesus
We got to sit down and chat with Derwin Gray this week and had the best talk about what it looks like when Love is a Verb.
And all these free gifts are still available to you:
It’s never too late, friends! Join today and you’ll have access to our entire 40-day journey, which you can explore at your own pace.
—> A daily audio clip where I’ll quietly read Scripture with you, as we journey through the Gospel of John together, walking every step with Jesus: listening to the testimony of “the one whom Jesus loved” – as we lean into Jesus, and feel how deeply loved we are – beyond imagining!
—> As you listen, consider hanging your corresponding Easter Tree Ornament as you listen (more about that below!). A beautifully designed reflection from Loved to Life — an invitation to meditate, perhaps save it to your phone and return to it throughout the day. Allow Love Himself to meet you as begin to let the tender places in you feel the depth of His unconditional love for you…
—> Our weekly Real Love Memory Verse. Throughout the next 40 days, we’ll memorize what Love truly is, from one of the most powerful, needful Scriptures in the whole of the Bible: 1 Corinthians 13. During the next 40 days, we are going to truly feel love and truly be love.
—> Your own Visual Love Pilgrimage — an immersive experience of masterful art, Scripture, journaling, and prayer, where you can gaze at a classic work of art while considering the Love of Christ. Spend a few times looking at the art, undistracted, and use the journaling prompts to help you see and experience Love more deeply and clearly.
—> And a daily Identity in Christ affirmation, with a whole set of 24 cards you can print, to begin to feel how loved and cherished you and who you really are in Christ – nothing has changed me like knowing who I am in Christ … beloved!
—> And each Sunday evening of our 40-Day Pilgrimage? Lord willing, we’ll gather together, you and I, face-to-face! Yes, Weekly Livestream Community gatherings are back! Let’s let go of all kinds of lonely feelings, and our sense of isolation, and together connect, in face-to-face moments of encouragement, prayer, and wisdom, with very special guests every week!
Would you love to feel really loved – and really be love? I will personally ensure you’ll get all of this beauty each day, tucked with all my love, right into your hands… just click here…
you can’t help but smile:
known by name
holy holy holy!
love them!
the farmers choir!
On the bookshelf this week at the farm
A graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary, Crickett Keeth is the author of several women’s Bible studies, including her newly released study on 2 Timothy, Living Out a Life That Matters, that focuses on eight virtues of the Christian life embodied by Paul that are also meant for us. She takes us on a journey into the life-changing attributes of: Encouragement, Faithfulness, Strength, Diligence, Vigilance, Equipping, Commitment, and Steadfastness. Focusing on one virtue each week, participants become centered in God’s heart and equipped to live a life that impacts others for eternity. Living Out a Life That Matters goes beyond fill-in-the-blank questions or one-word answers, and challenges women to live deep, purpose-filled lives. As you grow into these beautiful virtues, you—and the people around you—will be changed.
People generally do okay with naming Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. But the Trinity? That’s where things start to feel intimidating. Maybe it’s a puzzle, some folks assume, for pastors, professors, and the occasional brave soul with a diagram. But what if this portrait of God is not ultimately confusing, but life-changing? Could it become a conviction that doesn’t complicate our experience of God but rather warms it? Timothy believes knowing God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit vividly answers the secret ache beneath our daily aches. That vibrant truth offers an extravagant invitation. His latest book, Fully Beloved: Meeting God in Our Heartaches and Our Hopes, explores God’s triune love set amid our human woundedness.
Calling Folks in Virginia! I’d love to connect with you at Refresh!
Join us for our annual Refresh Conference as we focus on living in God’s goodness—even through seasons of pain and uncertainty.
Who is ready for The Gospel Coalition Women’s event this year?
You won’t believe these sales today!
Loved to Life — a great read as we prepare for Holy Week — is 35% off!
Gifts and Gratitudes & sacred prayer: both half off!
THESE ARE LIFE-CHANGING! A Gratitude Journal and Prayer Journal. You want a fresh way to experience a gratitude journal, and a joyful life of more gratefulness, and you want a sacred way to prayerfully experience a fresh encounter with God? Grab this pair of journals now while they’re half off!
Are you counting your gifts this month?
Sticky Notes for your Soul:
And this one will be on repeat all week. Thank you, Jesus!
Wishing you a Holy Week with room to slow, to remember, and to be held—by the only One who has ever loved us to death and back to the realest life.
That’s all for this weekend, friends.
Go slow. Be God-struck. Grant grace. Live Truth.
Give Thanks. Love well. Re – joy, re- joy, ‘re- joys’ again
Share Whatever Is Good.
