Resurrection Story in Eggs Day 12

Egg Number 12 Message: The tomb is empty. He has risen!
Passage: Matthew 28:25
Item: Nothing (The Egg is Empty)

"Then the angel spoke to the women. “Don’t be afraid!” he said. “I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.  He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead, just as he said would happen. Come, see where his body was lying." -Matthew 28 5-6

 

Resurrection Story in Eggs Day 11

 
 
 
 
 

Egg Number 11 Message: The stone covering Jesus' tomb was rolled away.
Passage: Matthew 27:66.
Item: A small rock.

"So they sealed the tomb and posted guards to protect it."
-Matthew 27:66

It's Friday!

I posted this last year but I wanted to share again this year! Enjoy..... It's Friday... But Sunday is coming, Praise GOD!!

-Pastor J

Resurrection Story in Eggs Day 10

 
 
 
 


Egg Number 10Message: Joseph wrapped Jesus' Body in clean linens and put him in the tomb
Passage: Matthew 27:59
Item: Linen, or Cotton ball

"Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a long sheet of clean linen cloth."

-Matthew 27:59

Resurrection Story in Eggs Day 9

Egg Number 9Message: The Soldiers broke Jesus' Legs and pierced His side.
Passage: John 19:34.
Item: Toy spear or tooth pick

"One of the soldiers, however, pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood

 and water flowed out."

-John 19:34

Resurrection Story in Eggs Day 8

Egg Number 8Message: Soldiers parted Jesus' garments and cast lots for His coat.
Passage: Matthew 27:35
Item: Miniature dice

"After they had nailed him to the cross, the soldiers gambled for his clothes
by throwing dice.^"

^{-Matthew 27:35}

Resurrection Story in Eggs Day 7

 

Egg Number 7Message: Jesus was nailed to a cross and pierced in His side.
Passage: Matthew 27:31
Item: A nail or push pin

 ^"When they were finally tired of mocking him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him again. Then they led him away to be crucified."
-Matthew 27:31

 

 

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Resurrection Story in Eggs Day 6

Egg Number 6 Message: Soldiers placed a crown of thorns on Jesus' head.
Passage: Matthew 27:29
Item: A small thorny branch or a single large thorn (a toothpick would work too)

"They wove thorn branches into a crown and put it on his head, and they placed a reed stick in his right hand as a scepter. Then they knelt before him in mockery and taunted, “Hail! King of the Jews!”
-Matthew 27:29

Resurrection Story in Eggs Day 5

 
 
 

Egg Number 5Message: Jesus was beaten with whips.
Passage: Mark 15:15
Item: a small piece of  leather.

^"So to pacify the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He ordered Jesus flogged with a lead-tipped whip, then turned him over to the Roman soldiers to be crucified0."
-Mark 15:15

(May not be suitable for younger children)

Song is By 3rd Day

Resurrection Story in Eggs Day 4

 
 
 
 

Egg Number 4       Message: Jesus prayed to God
Passage: Matthew 26:39.
Item: cut out of hands or little toy praying hands from a book store.

 ^"He went on a little farther and bowed with his face to the ground, praying, “My Father! If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.”

Resurrection Story in Eggs Day 3

Egg Number 3 Message: Jesus ate the Last Supper with His disciples.
Passage: Matthew 26:26-28
Item: A small piece of cracker to represent the passover bread. or little toy cup.

 ^"As they were eating, Jesus took some bread and blessed it. Then he broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take this and eat it, for this is my body.”

 And he took a cup of wine and gave thanks to God for it. He gave it to them and said, “Each of you drink from it,  for this is my blood, which confirms the covenant between God and his people. It is poured out as a sacrifice to forgive the sins of many."
Matthew 26:26-28

 

Resurrection Story in Eggs Day 2

 
 
 

Egg Number 4 Message: Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.
Passage: Matthew 26:14-15.
Item: Three dimes

^"Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples, went to the leading priests  and asked, “How much will you pay me to betray Jesus to you?” And they gave him thirty pieces of silver."

Matthew 26:14-15

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Resurrection Story in Eggs Day 1

So for the next 12 days I am going to post the bible verse and item that goes along with the Resurrection Eggs. You can follow along each day or keep note of them at the end to create your own set of eggs next year.

Day 1:

Egg Number 1 Message: Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. The people waved palm branches.
Passage: Matthew 21:1-11.
Item: Toy Donkey or small leaf
 

"As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me.  If anyone says anything to you, say that the Lord needs them, and he will send them right away.”

This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet:

 “Say to Daughter Zion,
    ‘See, your king comes to you,
gentle and riding on a donkey,
    and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’

 The disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them. They brought the donkey and the colt and placed their cloaks on them for Jesus to sit on.  A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.  The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted,

“Hosanna to the Son of David!”

“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”

“Hosanna in the highest heaven!”

 When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, “Who is this?”

 The crowds answered, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”

(Please Note Some Days I will post a Video to go along with each day, However some videos are not suitable for young children)

 

Why I went with the iPad..

Okay so there are many reviews out there on the iPad and other tablets. However after me taking over two years reading just about every review I could find and trying to make my own list on what I wanted, pros vs cons. the iPad 4 won me over. Now after just a few weeks of owning it I can say I am most happy with my choice.  Here are the things that I looked for.

1) Price: I wanted to find something that was in the price I wanted and was able to spend. This is where the Kindle Fire came in to play. It seemed like it would be best due to price. however I later found out that Apple has reconditioned iPads much cheaper on there website. So this to me was a big pull back to the iPad over the Kindle

2) Wanted: Next thing I wanted was to do the following:
             Movies (Netflix, Hulu, NBC, ABC and Food Network online shows)
             Facebook
             Twitter
             Games
             Blog (and write)
             Pandora (radio)
             and Books
 These where the main things I was looking for however I found with the iPad I was able to get all this and more then I would ever need with the App Store.

3) Size: The next biggest item I really wanted was a large size screen. Over the two years of looking iPad was the biggest I could find however later the Kindle Fire HD came out with a larger screen. This was something I liked however the biggest thing that really worried me with the kindle fire was Amazons app store. To be honest its just not been around as long and it will still need a few more years in my eyes to get where I want it do. The Kindle Fire seems to be great however I wanted to do more.

I have had a iPod touch for years and know what the IOS was all about. For some reason I felt it was clean and simple to use for all levels of users. I would like to see later down the road the choice to change more around however I am fine with what one can do to it at this point. You are able to change more on the android however after having a android phone in the past Its just to buggy for me and I think slow.
The next thing I had to come up with once I made the choice to go with the iPad over other tablets was what size memory and what gen did I want. Well do to price the older model Gen 2 was going to be about all I could pay for. Then I found on the Apple site the reconditioned iPads, for not much more I could get more memory. So this was what I was planning to do however it came down to, do I get a Gen 2 or 3 and get more memory or go for the newest iPad 4 for only 16gb of memory. So I went onto finding ways I could use cloud and dropbox and other programs to save items in a online storage then using what was on the iPad. After looking at my iPod touch I noticed that most of my storage was used up by my music. I had over 13gbs of music. So I knew if I wanted to replace my iPod I would have to get larger storage on my iPad however I don't think I am going to walk around with my iPad listen to music much. So I found this was not going to that big of issue for me. Most of the time I listen to podcasts and I can use the podcast app for this. However I do have a few cds on my iPad however it only takes up about 1gb or less so I am happy with that. and I only put the top cds I listen a lot on there. I can always change out on iTunes when I need to.

The new HD retina display I didn't really know too much about however I know it was the newest thing out and heard may people talk about it. However I have never been into displays as long as I can see it, that's fine with me. In the end I went with the 16gb iPad 4 the newest one out as of (3/18/13) However I am sure in the coming months there will be even a newer one out. I don't plan on getting another one for a long time. So I am happy with what I have. the size works great, storage for what I need it for works fine. I hard many people say I would need a keyboard for it but to be honest I have had no issue with typing on it even with my fat fingers. Now the only thing I would change with it is, it I was some rich guy that had money I would go with a larger storage however 16gb for me is fine. am sitting at 57 apps, I have used 6.3gb and at this point I don't plan on using much more as I have every app I want right now. there is also with a few cds I put in my iTunes and about 50+ pictures I have taken. The display on the iPad blows me away. I rather watch a movie on it then my TV.
    I think the hardest choice for me to make once I picked what I wanted was what color iPad I wanted. I picked the classy Black!
Here are a few apps I have downloaded and use daily:
iBook - to read books
Remote - to listen to my iTunes on my pc
Pandora - online radio
Dragon Dictation - I talk and it turns it to text. I love this app use from sermons, emails, blogs ect.
Evernote - for not taking
Blogger - so I can do blog post like this one
Skype -
Photoshop express - so I can edit my photos
Bible software - You Version
                           Logos
                           Glo
The Weather Channel - check weather
Kindle - to read kindle books
SmartGlass - to run and control my xbox (how cool is that)
Dropbox - to hold and handle all my pdfs, docs and other files
Gamecocks - to get the latest Gamecock football news and scores
Craigslist - to window shop
Flipboard - a cool way to look at your facebook and twitter feed
Facebook - duh
Twitter - :)
ESPN - Sports
Games - all the way from simple facebook games to larger games like minecraft, Infinity Blade to fun games like Lets Golf and Idiscgolf.
OnLive Desktop - Now this is the best app I have found. if you want to create a word doc, exel, or PowerPoint this program allows you to do just that. Here is are a few screen shots of the program.

 

And a few more...
Now I will end with the last two thing everyone talks about and that is camera Now I am not big into taking photos with my iPad as I have my phone for that however it takes very good photos. I have not really tried the video camera however it seems to be the same. But again these are two items I don't use much. Here is a Photo taken by my iPad. You can see the detail it takes.

So in the end hands down I felt I made the right choice.

 

If you have a low budget and just need something to read books and watch a movie or something I would say get the Kindle Fire HD. If you want to be able to do something more and use it for work, school or just fun iPad. You don't have to get the newest one out on the market and keep in mind apple will just make a new one in 6 months anyway. I spend more for the iPad 4 with less storage but with the display I fell in love! Later I will be sure to post about how I feel the iPad can be best used in Ministry.

If anyone has any questions about other tablets, the iPad or Kindle just ask. I did two years of research for a reason. :) 

 

-Pastor J