When you understand the Jewish Festival of Passover, it gives new resonance to what happened on Good Friday.

Here's Barbara Rainey.

As Jesus was being led to the hill carrying his cross, the fathers of families were bringing their lambs into the city of Jerusalem to take them to the temple.

As he was nailed to the cross, the lambs were being taken into the temple.

And as the lambs were being slaughtered in the temple,

Jesus was hanging on the cross and he was dying.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss-Waglmuth, author of The Wonder of His Name, for March 6th, 2018.

Well, today we're continuing a conversation with Barbara Rainey that we started yesterday.

We'll go over the next couple of days talking about how to celebrate Easter, preparing our hearts to observe Passion Week and then to make a big deal about Resurrection Day.

So Barbara, thanks for joining us again here on Reviver Hearts.

Well, it's a delight to be here and do this with you.

Barbara and Dennis Rainey are the co-founders of Family Life. They've been an integral part

of Revive Our Hearts since its very beginning. In fact, Barbara, it was your husband who called

me one day years ago. I could show you where I was sitting in my little quiet time chair at home

in my study when I got this call from Dennis who basically said that they were burdened as a

ministry to develop a women's program with a woman Bible teacher and that the staff had been

thinking that they should talk to me about this. And I actually loved the

idea. I said to him, that's a great idea. In fact, I've been looking for someone to do that, but I think

you've got the wrong person. Somebody else. Somebody else. Not me, Lord, but over the next 18 months,

as we talked and prayed with your team and our team, what unfolded was what is now 17 years into revive our hearts.

And so family life was the, what do you call it, the doula, the midwife, that helped to birth revive our hearts.

And we're so grateful. We recorded for our first eight years actually here in Little Rock, Arkansas,

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