Where Am I Going to Put All of These Empty Easter Eggs?

Where Am I Going to Put All of These Empty Easter Eggs?

Each year after Easter Sunday, after the egg hunts and celebrations, after all the jelly beans have been eaten from them, I find myself faced with the same dilemma: where to put yet another dozen empty Easter eggs?! I grab a bag, big enough to hold this year’s...
Easter in Children’s Ministry

Easter in Children’s Ministry

What are those crazy kids up to? Welcome to This Week in Children’s Ministry, the part of the Northstar website where we take a look at what the kids are learning on Sunday morning and keep you up to date with what’s coming up and what your family can...
Passion Week Devotionals: Easter Sunday

Passion Week Devotionals: Easter Sunday

I have fuller confidence at this point in my life than ever that Jesus Christ rose from the dead. I could point to numerous reasons based on observation, logic and history. However, for every solid reason a Christian posits for Jesus life, death, burial and...
Passion Week Devotionals: Easter Sunday

Passion Week Devotionals: Saturday

In the Meantime… Rest in His Promise Easter Sunday? That’s tomorrow, the day after today. Saturday was the “in the meantime” for all who witnessed Jesus’ death–it was the dreadful day of waiting and not knowing what was to come. It also represents the “in...
Trained for Disaster Relief

Trained for Disaster Relief

Saturday, April 8, was the opening morning of the spring turkey season in Virginia. If you know me, you know that is an important date, one that I put on my calendar and plan around. But this year I didn’t get up at 5:00 a.m. to traipse through the George...
Passion Week Devotionals: Easter Sunday

Passion Week Devotionals: Good Friday 2017

GOOD FRIDAY DEVOTIONAL: Even Death On A Cross Read Philippians 2:1-11 Paul wrote to the believers in Philippi that God had highly exalted Jesus and given him a name above every name. (Phil. 2:8 ESV) How high was Jesus exalted? How amazing was his name? So high and so...