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<p>In today’s society, a lot of families think Easter is more about rabbits and chocolate, rather than the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Bob Lepine explores various traditions of Easter, and points out the true meaning of this holiday — Jesus died and rose again so we can live forever with him in Heaven! Then Champ Thornton wants to inspire children – and their parents – with fascinating Bible facts, biographies of great Christians, humor, trivia, and more! He believes kids need to integrate their faith with the “real world” all around them and learn how to discern between godly truth and cultural perspectives.</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://donate.focusonthefamily.com/don-daily-broadcast-product-2025-04-18?refcd=2457003">12 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Easter</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://donate.focusonthefamily.com/don-daily-broadcast-product-2026-03-23?refcd=2457003">The Really Radical Book for Kids</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://www.focusonthefamily.com/faith/coming-home-an-invitation-to-join-gods-family/?refcd=2457003">Coming Home</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://www.focusonthefamily.com/parenting/how-to-read-the-bible-as-a-family/?refcd=2457003">How to Read the Bible – As a Family</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://sf.fotf.com/cq2drp">If you enjoyed listening to Focus on the Family Weekend, please give us your feedback.</a></p>

To the woman who is weary, worn, and in need of resurrection life—you have a living hope. This Easter, find the refreshment and restoration your spirit longs for in Jesus.<br><br>As our thanks for your gift of any amount this month:<br><br><b>Refresh</b>.<br>The 30 Days of Personal Revival Journaling Set is a tool to help you meditate on God's Word and record ways He is at work in your life.<br><br><a href="https://www.reviveourhearts.com/donate/podcast/">Give today</a>

<p>Anne shares about the crucifixion and Easter from Romans 6:18.</p>

In this episode, David Wollen invites us to reflect on Good Friday and see how the cross fulfills the meaning of Passover, revealing Jesus as our true Passover Lamb.

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<p>Life had a rough start for little Sibi who was born with a cleft lip. </p>

<p>If you know someone who questions the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, it may be that they don’t have all the facts. In this fascinating message, former atheist Lee Strobel shares his story of coming to faith after years of study, and then examines extra-biblical evidence that proves three key points: Jesus was truly dead on the cross, the tomb was really empty, and hundreds of people interacted with Jesus after Resurrection Sunday! </p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://donate.focusonthefamily.com/don-daily-broadcast-product-2026-04-03?refcd=2443704">Receive a copy of The Case for Easter: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for the Resurrection and an audio download of "Fact Check: Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?" for your donation of any amount!</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://www.focusonthefamily.com/episodes/broadcast/fact-check-did-jesus-really-rise-from-the-dead/#featured-resource-cta/">Get More Episode Resources </a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://sf.fotf.com/6rub3h">If you enjoyed listening to Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, please give us your feedback.</a></p>

<p>Lee Strobel reminds us that life apart from Christ is very unfulfilling.</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://www.focusonthefamily.com/episodes/broadcast/fact-check-did-jesus-really-rise-from-the-dead/">Listen to the Full Program</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://donate.focusonthefamily.com/don-daily-broadcast-product-2026-04-03?refcd=2461501">Receive a copy of The Case for Easter: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for the Resurrection and an audio download of "Fact Check: Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?" for your donation of any amount!</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://sf.fotf.com/m6pkkm">If you enjoyed listening to Focus on the Family Minute, please give us your feedback.</a></p>

<img src='https://hutchcraft.com/images/AWWY_Images/2026-04/2026-04-03-When-Good-Friday-Gets-Personal.jpg'> <p>Twenty-three marks on the wall of his four-by-four prison cell told the story. It had just been three weeks since the soldiers captured him - the number one name on the Most Wanted List - at a local bar and they hauled him into this cell. The charges were robbery, treason, and murder. Day 23 was going to be just another day there, or so he thought until he heard the growing sounds of that angry mob outside the window above him. He managed to grab the bars on the window and pull himself up high enough to hear what the crowd was screaming. It was a combination of shock and fear that swept over him when he heard they were shouting his name! "Give us Ba-rabbas! Give us Ba-rabbas!" <p>Then the chant gradually began to change. Now they were shouting with this bloodthirsty anger, "Cru-ci-fy him! Cru-ci-fy him!" Barabbas slumped to the floor. He couldn't believe it. He'd been their hero, but now they were calling for his execution by the most brutal means of execution ever devised - death on a cross. Within minutes, five soldiers were dragging him, kicking and screaming down the corridor, up the stone steps, and to another door. They flung the door open, pushed him through it, and slammed the door behind him.</p> <p>It took a little while for him to realize where he was. He was out on the cobblestone street of Jerusalem. He was free! Before reality could fully dawn on Barabbas, the door behind him opened again. He literally had to roll out of the way to keep from being trampled by this angry crowd pushing their way through with a bare-backed, bleeding man in the middle of them. As Barabbas plastered himself against the wall of that narrow street, he could see that man's back had been so brutally beaten it was like one gaping wound, exposing tissue and bone everywhere. Barabbas' first instinct was to run while he could, but he didn't. He followed that crowd all the way up to that skull-shaped hill just outside the city, where from a distance, he heard the hammer and the spikes that the heartless executioners of Rome were driving into that man's hands and feet.</p> <p>It turned dark as night in the middle of the day and the skies opened up with a deluge of rain. Curious spectators just began to drift away. Finally, Barabbas felt safe enough to walk slowly to the top of Skull Hill, with his head covered. It was as if there was a magnet pulling him toward the man hanging on that middle cross between two other dying criminals. Barabbas had heard the man say from that cross, "Father, forgive them." He'd heard many things at crucifixions. He'd heard cursing, and screaming, and threatening, but never "forgive."</p> <p>He now could recognize the face that was beaten almost beyond recognition. It was Jesus - the man who had done no wrong, whose only crime was to love those that no one else cared about. And in that moment Barabbas found himself looking up into the eyes of that man on the middle cross and saying aloud, "Jesus, you don't deserve to be there, I do. But because You're dying there, I don't have to die." I could walk up to the cross where Jesus died and say that, and so could you.</p> <p>I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You on this Good Friday about "When Good Friday Gets Personal."</p> <p>I don't know if Barabbas ever really made it to the cross, but I do know that getting to that cross to have your sins forgiven is your only hope of heaven. Our word for today from the Word of God is in Galatians 2:20, and it simply says, "The Son of God...loved me and gave Himself for me."</p> <p>If you've never been to Jesus' cross and said those words, "For me. You're dying for me," this could be your personal Jesus-day. When you tell Him you are His, when every wrong thing you've ever done will be erased from God's book, because the blood shed on that cross was shed to pay for it. And when you trade hell for heaven this

<p class="max-audio-link-wrap"> <a class="max-audio-link-wrap" href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.maxlucado.com/media/2026/04.03.26.mp3">Listen to Today's Devotion</a> </p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Grace</em>. The bank gives us a grace period. The seedy politician falls from grace. Musicians speak of a grace note. We use the word for hospitals, baby girls, kings and pre-meal prayers. We talk as though we know what grace means.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">You turn the page of your Bible and look at the words. You might as well be gazing at a cemetery. Lifeless, stony, nothing moves you. But you don’t dare close the book, no sirree. You dare not miss a deed for fear that God will erase your name.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">If that’s your feeling, grace can speak to you. God’s grace has a drenching about it. It comes after you. It re-wires you. From insecure to God-secure. From regret riddled to better-because-of-it. From afraid to die to ready to fly. As Paul said in Galatians 2:20 (NKJV), “It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.” You might call it a heart transplant.</p> <p>Read more <a href="https://maxlucado.christianbook.com/grace-more-than-deserve-greater-imagine/max-lucado/9780529117694/pd/911769?event=BRSRCG|PSEN" title="Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine"><em>Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine</em></a><br> <a href="https://maxlucado.christianbook.com/grace-more-than-deserve-greater-imagine/max-lucado/9780529117694/pd/911769?event=BRSRCG|PSEN" title="Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine"> <img src="https://maxlucado.com/wp-content/uploads/grace-more-than-we-deserve-196x300.png" alt="Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine" width="100" height="153.06122449" class="book-info" /> </a> </p> <p>For more inspirational messages please visit <a rel="nofollow" href="https://maxlucado.com">Max Lucado</a>.</p>

You probably use the word “amen” all the time. But do you know what it means? It’s not “I’m done praying” or even “I agree with the speaker.” Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth shows you it’s actually a beautiful, meaningful name for Jesus.<br><br>As our thanks for your gift of any amount this month:<br><br><b>Refresh</b>.<br>The 30 Days of Personal Revival Journaling Set is a tool to help you meditate on God's Word and record ways He is at work in your life.<br><br><a href="https://www.reviveourhearts.com/donate/podcast/">Give today</a>

Serie: Cristo, nuestro Sacerdote y Rey, Ep3. Cristo es sacerdote y rey para siempre.

The resurrection changed everything. God gets the final word.<br><br>As our thanks for your gift of any amount this month:<br><br><b>Refresh</b>.<br>The 30 Days of Personal Revival Journaling Set is a tool to help you meditate on God's Word and record ways He is at work in your life.<br><br><a href="https://www.reviveourhearts.com/donate/podcast/">Give today</a>