Erica Van Heizma reminds us, the crucifixion is part of a love story.

My beloved, there he stands. But now my beloved is covered with shame and dripping with blood.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Holiness, The Heart God Purifies.

For April 1st, 2021, I'm Dana Gresh.

Welcome back to Revive Our Hearts, and I know you've been really on the edge of your seat listening to each day with our guest teacher this week, Erica Van Heitzma.

Don't try and spell that. Look on the website, Revive Our Hearts.com, and you'll see how it's spelled, and a good Dutch name, I suppose.

And Erica and her family live not too far north of our home base

in good Dutch territory, a little further north in Michigan. We're so thankful to have Brian and

Erica serving on the Reviver Hearts team. And during this Passion Week, as we're observing

and celebrating the coming of Christ to give his life for the sin of the world,

to rescue us out of sin and darkness and bring us into a new kingdom, the kingdom of light.

So on this Thursday of Passion Week, our hearts are being drawn and our focus is heading toward the sacrifice

of Christ on our behalf. And so Erica is taking us back this week through the Old and New Testament

passages to show how they tie together and what they mean for us. Erica, thank you for the time,

the effort, the research, the preparation, and for opening God's word to us. Erica, thank you for the time, the effort, the research, the preparation, and for opening

God's word to us today. And Lord, would you just open our hearts in these moments? Speak to us,

encourage us, strengthen us, challenge us, convict us. And may our hearts be quick to say

yes to whatever you say to us in this time.

I pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

Well, we started out this week by learning about the Creator God, who is also the covenant-making

God who becomes the lover God, a God who is so amazing and so passionately in love

with his people that he desires a relationship with them. Think of a healthy marriage in the

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