Reading our Bibles regularly can be a challenge, but we're all on this journey together.

We're praying that this podcast inspires you, helps you better understand God's Word, and builds your faith.

This is Join the Journey with your host, Emma Daughter.

Thanks for joining and happy Easter. We don't have a reading assignment today, but before we dive in,

quick announcement, if you've been following along for Holy Week and using the free PDF guide on the Watermark website,

I wanted to let you know that you can grab a full length Join the Journey Journal on Amazon,

and we'll put that link in the episode description. That said, let's dive in. It's

Easter, arguably the most important day for all of humanity as he has risen. For this episode,

I'm going to be pulling content from past Watermark Easter Sunday sermon guides, which you can

find at watermark.org. Have you ever noticed how many signs you

pass throughout the day? Street signs, construction signs, building signs, directory signs in an

office building, aisle markers at the grocery store, and the list goes on. Their purpose? To provide

instruction and or point us in a specific direction. When Jesus was on

earth, he offered signs as well. Miracles that showed he was who he said he was, God's own

son, and that crescendoed with the greatest miracle of all, his resurrection from the dead. Because of his death and resurrection on our behalf,

we have the opportunity to be forgiven and made new. When we accept God's gift of grace,

he transforms us from death to life. And that is definitely worth celebrating and sharing with

others, which is what we do on Easter.

Now, for Christian kids, it can be easy to get hung up on the Easter bunny, candy, presents,

new, fancier clothes, and egg hunts or family meals.

And while those things are fun, they aren't bad, and they add to the celebration, no doubt,

they aren't all this holiday is about. Jesus came down from heaven

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