Easter 2025 Archives - Hope Church

Saturday: The Silence

Jessica Fields — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 04:00:00 +0000

“But we were hoping that he was the one who was about to redeem Israel.”— Luke 24:21, CSB It’s Saturday. The cross has already happened. The tomb is sealed. Jesus is dead. And the silence is deafening. The disciples are scattered. Confused. Afraid. Grieving. This isn’t how the story was supposed to end. They gave […]

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Friday: Finished Means Finished

Jessica Fields — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 04:00:00 +0000

“It is finished.” — John 19:30, CSB Good Friday. The day that changed everything. In the quiet of the morning, Jesus, the Son of God, was condemned to death by crucifixion. He carried His cross through the streets of Jerusalem, bearing the weight of the world’s sin. And when He was nailed to the cross, […]

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Thursday: Remembering the Master

Jessica Fields — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 04:00:00 +0000

“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” — John 13:35, CSB It’s Thursday of Holy Week.The cross is just hours away. But before the nails, before the trial, before the garden…we find Jesus gathered at a table with His disciples. Not with crowds or miracles or teaching […]

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Wednesday: The Silent Betrayal

Jessica Fields — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 04:00:00 +0000

“Then one of the Twelve, the man called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, ‘What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?’ So they weighed out thirty pieces of silver for him. And from that time he started looking for a good opportunity to betray him.” […]

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Tuesday: The Fig Tree—Faith that Bears Fruit

Jessica Fields — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 04:00:00 +0000

“Early in the morning, as he was returning to the city, he was hungry. Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, he went up to it and found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, ‘May no fruit ever come from you again!’ At once the fig tree withered.” — Matthew 21:18–19, […]

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Monday: Turning Over Tables—and Our Hearts

Jessica Fields — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 04:00:00 +0000

“Jesus went into the temple and threw out all those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves. He said to them, ‘It is written, my house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of thieves!'” — Matthew […]

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Palm Sunday: The Arrival of the King

Jessica Fields — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 04:00:00 +0000

"The next day, when the large crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, they took palm branches and went out to meet him. They kept shouting: 'Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord — the King of Israel!'" — John 12:12–13, CSB Can […]

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