Hello, Reader.

We made it safely back from South Korea yesterday after a fabulous week of sightseeing with my son's family who lives there. What precious memories we all made together!

As much as we love to travel, it's always great to get home. We're happy to get to see all our family members who stayed behind, to get to sleep in our own beds, and to get to eat all our favorite foods (my husband went 11 days without any Tex-Mex, which has to be some kind of record!)

Plus, we made it home just in time for Holy Week, and all the special meals and church services and family traditions that accompany that occasion. Which is why I've chosen that as my topic for this week's link list. Christ is risen!

Free resources for you this week:

• ​Free Printable Easter Stickers - these are the perfect size for hiding in Easter Eggs
• ​All about God's Grace - another original music video proclaiming the good news of Easter
• ​Resurrection Day Word Scramble - see how fast can you decipher these mixed up words
• ​Scrambled Easter Egg Puzzles - match up colors & put the words of the Bible verse in order
• ​Resurrection Day Word Find - can you find all the Easter-y words hidden in this puzzle?
• ​No Fault in This Man Coloring Page - feature's Pilate's pronouncement regarding Jesus
• ​He Carried Our Sorrows Coloring Page - this beautiful artwork depicts Isaiah's prophecy
• ​Empty Tomb Craft - a fun, simple activity to do with young children or grandchildren

What I'm reading this week:

I finished Voddie Baucham's Family Driven Faith on our flight home from Korea yesterday. Given that the vast majority of Christian teens (75-88%) abandon their faith during their first year at college, the author examines a question many believing parents may be wondering: What (if anything) can we do to help equip our kids to stand strong in the faith once they leave home? In Family Driven Faith, Baucham shares several practices that the LORD used to transform his own family, in the hope that they may prove helpful to other parents, as well.

This week's reader request:

In addition to granting a reader request for some small all-occasion stickers (which you'll find alongside the easter stickers in this post), I also drew a new coloring page for Romans 8:38-39.

You may recall I shared a special-request coloring page for Romans 8:28 last month. But I'd actually misread the message: it was not verse 28 but verse 38 they wanted all along!

No worries, though. The entire chapter is so great, I will likely make even more coloring pages for this passage before I'm done.

On the podcast this week:

Loving Life at Home: Episode 80 ​EGG HUNTS & MORE EASTER FESTIVITIES​ We’re right in the middle of holy week, which makes this a great time to discuss some of our family’s favorite Easter traditions. Yes, we still have egg hunts, but we especially favor activities that keep our focus on the finished work of Christ on the cross. Listen Now

Progress on last week's goals:

Granted, last week's list of goals was pretty short, but I'm still happy to report I finished all of them: I ✅ saw the sights in Korea (including Gyeongbokgung Palace, the fortress wall in Suwon, some gorgeous cherry blossom trees, and a pick-your-own strawberry farm, the Museum of War, and more), ✅ finished cross-stitching a Christmas sampler, ✅ started a new sequined Christmas stocking, and ✅ submitted my swag bag item for the upcoming Under God Summit.

Personal goals for this week:

• give monthly haircuts to sons/grandsons
• send out monthly memory passage to kids/grandkids
• decorate bedroom tree for Easter
• share Maundy Thursday meal at church
• attend Good Friday Services
• attend Easter Sunday Worship
• celebrate with family
• catch up on co-op homework
• register for next year's classes

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