A family tradition our kids have enjoyed (even as teenagers) is this Words of Jesus Easter Hunt. This is how it works. The Words of Jesus bible verses are hidden around the house. There is a ‘cryptic’ clue for the location of each verse. The kids need to find each verse in order, read it aloud and blue tack them onto the marked pages to receive their next clue. Right at the end is a shoebox with an Easter gift inside (eggs / bible or book, etc). We read right through Jesus’ words from the garden, his arrest, trial, crucifixion and resurrection. There are some templates below. You will need to tweak the clues to suit your household.
Psalm 139
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
Psalm 139:16
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.”
Luke 19:1-10
Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Luke 19:9-10 (NIV)
Luke 7:32 and Isaiah 41:10
Today we looked at a passage in Luke 7 which included
They are like children in the marketplace and calling out to each other:
“We played the pipe for you,
Luke 7:32
and you did not dance;
we sang a dirge,
and you did not cry.”
We are often tempted to think Jesus has come to do our bidding, particularly when times are tough. Luke 7 reminds us of who Jesus is and what he has come to do. He has come to fulfill all those OT prophecies and promises (2 Corinthians 1:20). So rather than questioning why Jesus isn’t doing our bidding next time we find ourselves in the midst of suffering we are able to rest on one of many beautiful promises God makes to his people (Isaiah 41:10) and thank Jesus that because of what he has done we can be one of those people.
Luke 7:1-23
John the Baptist asks the central question in this passage: “Are you the one?” Jesus’ response shows us that his fingerprints are all over the Old Testament and that he has come to fulfill the OT prophecies. It is essential that we get a right understanding of who Jesus is and what he has come to do.
2 Timothy 1:5
“I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.”
Luke 5:33-39
These things stood out to me in this week’s sermon:
“You can’t just add Jesus into the old pharisaical system. We tend to be just like the Pharisees and think we are the barometer of ‘goodness’. We don’t codify it, we just do it naturally as we judge everyone around us.”
“The good news is that Jesus has come for sinners like you and me to save sinners.”
Luke 5:12-31
“But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralysed man, “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.”
(Luke 5:24)
Luke 5:1-11
I was reminded in a recent sermon that through this miracle Simon is able to see Jesus for who he really is. His view of Jesus is ‘enlarged’. At the same time Simon is also painfully aware of his own sinfulness.
Jesus has come to provide freedom and liberty from both Simon’s and our own bondage to sin. He uses freed sinners to call more sinners so that dead men and women will be ‘caught’ to life.
Ruth
But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me. Ruth 1:16-17
Sketching the Word 
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