Barbara Rainey wants to help families get ready for Resurrection Sunday.

Kids naturally look forward to things.

They count down the days to their birthday.

They count down the days to Christmas.

Why shouldn't they be counting down the days to Easter?

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Wednesday, February 19th.

Well, up here in Michigan, where we record Revive Our Hearts and where our National Ministry Center is located,

it's the middle of February, and we're still buried under what we call the perma cloud, gray skies here and snow and cold and frost, and things have not yet begun to thaw.

But we're already beginning to think about the upcoming Easter season, the Passion Week of Christ, the Resurrection Sunday, and the season that many of us

celebrate leading up to Resurrection Sunday, some call it the Lenton season, just 40 days

of remembering Christ and focusing on who he is and why he came and what he came to do.

And that season starts on Wednesday, March the 5th.

There's nothing sacred about that day, but just a good marker day to start preparing our hearts

to focus on the Passion Week of Christ, the Holy Week, and Resurrection Sunday.

And here to help us prepare to do that is my friend who's been with us this week in the studio.

Barbara Rainey, Barbara, thank you so much for your heart for the message of Easter and the resurrection.

And I know a lot of our listeners, especially those with children, families, have been really encouraged by some of the resources

you've made available to help us do this in a really biblical way. So thanks for being back

with us today. Well, you're welcome. It's a delight. And Barbara Rainey is no stranger to our

Reviver Hearts audience. She's been a guest numerous times on the broadcast, has talked a lot

about a number of different books and resources.

She's written.

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