Help your family to appreciate the awesome, life-changing events of Easter with this 30-day devotional.
These easy-to-lead devotions start by looking at Genesis and take us through the Old Testament to see how Easter was always part of God’s amazing plan for his people. The remainder look at the Easter story itself, helping families to experience the full joy of our resurrection hope.
Each day there is a passage to read together, questions to think about, an explanation and a prayer. There are also age-appropriate application questions, with some for younger children and some for older children, as well as journalling space so that family members can write or draw ...their own response to what God has shown them.
So why not set aside a little time each day in the run-up to Easter with this inspiring and innovative resource to celebrate what Jesus has done for us?
(Review written for 'A Jesus Easter')
⭐️ A few things I love about this Easter devotional:
1. It’s designed for ALL ages which means if you’ve got younger and older children, everyone can get something out of it. In fact they note questions for younger kids AND questions for older kids depending on who is present.
2. It’s 30 days, which gives you some freedom to ...miss a day here and there, add on something else to it, or get a late start if you're using it during Lent.
3. Interactive! With questions every day, and lots of space for writing/drawing, it lends itself to lots of conversation and engagement
Each day includes the following sections:
- Explore (a bible passage to read together & a couple comprehension questions)
- Explain (highlight God’s plan for Easter, the serpent’s lies, and Jesus’ truth in the passage)
- Engage (application/thought-provoking questions and space to write out answers)
- Enter In (prayer)
- A Jesus statement
- Family journaling space to draw or write what you’ve learned
Days 1-10 explore the reasons for Jesus coming to earth, taking us back to the garden of Eden and understanding how sin entered the world.
Days 11-30 jump to the gospels and Jesus’ time on earth, telling the whole Easter story.
*I received a review copy of this book. All opinions are my own.
(Review written for 'A Jesus Easter')
A Jesus Easter is the latest family devotional by author Barbara Reaoch and it’s one that my family particularly enjoys! The book is divided into readings for families to go through in the thirty days leading up to Easter. Each devotion is broken up into the following three sections: Explore, Explain, Engage, and Enter In. The Explore section includes Bible verses to look up and read as well as a few simple questions about the verses. The Explain section contains brief devotional content and each devotion concludes by pointing to Jesus’ death and resurrection. The Engage section includes simple questions ...for parents to ask their children about the Bible verses and devotional content. Each devotion concludes with the Enter In section which contains a brief prayer prompt.
My husband and I generally read children’s Bibles with our girls who are three and six but we especially enjoyed going through the content of A Jesus Easter with them because it had us opening up the actual Bible and reading from it. We love our children’s Bibles but recognize that they are paraphrases of Scripture so it was nice to do something different for our family worship time and it was neat to see the girls engage with it. We really enjoyed A Jesus Easter and look forward to reading more by Barbara Reaoch in the future!
I received A Jesus Easter compliments of The Good Book Company in exchange for my honest review.
(Review written for 'A Jesus Easter')
A Jesus Easter: Explore God’s Amazing Rescue Plan by Barbara Reaoch is an interactive family Bible study that walks you and your kids through the Easter story from Genesis on. Each entry includes a corresponding Bible reading, thoughtful questions to get you talking with your kids as well as an interactive space for your child to respond to the reading—such as drawing a picture or writing out a prayer.
I loved the questions included with each day’s reading. This could ...definitely also be used for a wide variety of ages; my children are 5 and 9, and because of the shorter attention spans, we were never able to get through all the questions.
One thing I would have loved is if the book was bigger or spiral-bound to make writing in it easier for little hands. This is also set up as a single-use book, rather than one you’d buy and use over and over again--but there are free downloads to get extra activity pages so you could always print those to use or for extra kids!
All in all, I enjoyed the conversations this book sparked for me and my kids as we inched toward Easter and prepared us for the joy and awe of that day!
Many thanks to The Good Book Co. who provided a free copy to me to facilitate this review.
