BONUS: Share: The Good News
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
“Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?’” (John 11:25–26)
I cannot imagine a more disheartening period than the time between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. The Jewish people waited so long for a Messiah and Jesus’ disciples found him and followed him! They dropped their entire lives to learn from him and spread his message. And then, in their lack of understanding, they watched him die on the cross and buried him. Can you imagine the defeat?
But as Bob Goff says, “Darkness fell, His friends scattered, hope seemed lost - But heaven just started counting to three.”
The good news of Easter is that there is life and hope after death!
Just when the disciples surely thought maybe they were wrong or maybe they misunderstood, Jesus rose. Friday and Saturday were hard, but Sunday redeemed it all. We talk about it so often nowadays that sometimes the miracle of it all is lost on us. But let’s not forget: God loved the world so much that even though it was broken, he made a plan to save it by sending his son for us. All we have to do is believe in that and we are saved. It’s the simplest, yet most beautiful message of hope for everyone. If your child has not accepted Jesus as savior, let’s pray for that this week. If they have, let’s pray they deepen their relationship with him and share his good news!
So as we prepare for Easter, let’s pray that our kids are people who know and share the good news that when all else seems hopeless, hope lives.
Father God, thank you for sending your son to die on the cross for our sin. I pray that ____________ will accept Jesus as their savior and cling to the hope that he provides. May _______________ be a messenger of the good news of the gospel to everyone that they meet. Amen.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Hey friends, welcome back to Pardon the Mess. |
| 0:16.8 | I'm your host, Courtney Defeo, and we are on week 32, a prayer journal that we've been praying together as moms all year long, all school year. |
| 0:25.1 | And we are closing in on the end of the school year. |
| 0:27.9 | And I am so grateful that we've done this together. |
| 0:30.7 | It is an intense time for me over here. |
| 0:32.7 | I've got my first senior graduating in just a few weeks, and I'm definitely wiped out. |
| 0:37.2 | Last couple weeks, I just had a lot. |
| 0:40.0 | We went to New York because Ella sang at Carnegie Hall and Larson turned 16. And then I think I got |
| 0:45.8 | COVID. I don't know if I did for sure. I didn't test or anything. But I thought it was the flu. |
| 0:50.4 | And then I completely lost my smell. And y'all, it wiped me out for several days and I thought oh my |
| 0:55.9 | gosh I haven't felt that bad at a long time but I wondered if my whole body was just like hey you're |
| 1:00.8 | trying to do way too much and if it's a southern way of doing graduation where everything is extra |
| 1:06.0 | and detailed and big and then we got to look at the dorm stuff but but my body was like, and we're done. And so I laid |
| 1:12.0 | on the couch for several days, but I'm feeling so much better now. And I want to say thank you to |
| 1:18.6 | you guys, by the way, a few weeks ago, who knows when, I asked you to send me pictures of your |
| 1:23.8 | families, because I said, I just stare at this computer and pretend that I can see y'all, but I can't. And so I'm putting up a bulletin board of your families and where you're from. |
| 1:31.6 | And I heard from people in Alaska and Canada and London and Africa. And it has been so fun. |
| 1:38.3 | So if you haven't done that yet, DM me a picture of your family. Tell me about them, |
| 1:42.5 | their ages and where you guys are from. And I won't put it online anywhere. Tell me about them, their ages, and where you guys are from, |
| 1:48.3 | and I won't put it online anywhere, but I may actually, I will put it on this bulletin board that I'm going to have in front of me as I record this. So that was super fun that several of you |
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