Sometimes when we hear the words "Genealogy" or "Family History" we get overwhelmed. What we don't realize is there is a time and a season for each of us to do our "Family History" work. For a young woman, it can mean preserving the present. Maybe voice recording "your growing up story" just before you drop into bed each night, or putting together a simple scrapbook of your first year of marriage, or recording your child's first words. For a man in the middle of his life with work, home, family, etc. It could mean spending his lunch hour indexing a batch of documents, therefore, helping to preserve the past. Or driving by his childhood home after work one evening and videoing the home with his phone as he talks about his memories there. Or for others, maybe you're retired, or the kids have left the nest, or they are all in school and you have a few hours of quiet time, it could mean scanning and documenting all the old photos in those shoe boxes, or learning how to take 8mm film and digitize it. Sometimes it's just setting a goal and carving out a little bit of time in your day to research a family line. Whatever you decide to do, I hope here at "All Things Family History" our Forever Family Trees Blog, you will find helpful ideas, tricks, tips and more to preserve the past and present for those in the future!
PART 1: Jesus Teaches at the Temple Jesus continues teaching in the temple, offering wisdom that would shape the faith of generations to come. This is day ‘3’ of being in His Father’s house. Among the lessons Jesus taught in the temple, include: As you recount the stories and moments of Holy Week, these scenes…
Continue Reading about Easter Holy Week – Monday – Jesus Teaches at the Temple and Mary’s devotion →
As Jesus entered the temple, expecting a place of reverence and prayer, He was met with chaos—animals bleating, merchants shouting, and money changers cheating the poor. This was no place of worship. Jesus saw it for what it was—it had become a marketplace, corruption invading His Father’s house of worship. The animals being sold for…
Continue Reading about Easter Holy Week – Sunday – Cleansing of the Temple →
This is an important day for all who believe on Jesus Christ. This day continues until 6pm. Maybe set a timer and bring out new sets and places throughout the day. After Jesus is arrested, then begins the illegal trials: Jesus is first taken to Annas (the former high priest and father-in-law to Caiaphas the…
On Tuesday, Jesus teaches in the temple for the last time, marking day four of His time spent at the Temple in Jerusalem. (Just like the lambs who have spent 4 days living in the homes of the families). This morning, Judas agrees to betray Jesus to the Pharisees for thirty pieces of silver—the price…
Continue Reading about Easter Holy Week – Tuesday – Last Supper, Gethsemane and Betrayal →
On this special Sunday, before sunrise, while the sky was still dark, the earth shook and an angel of the Lord descended, rolling back the massive heavy stone sealing Jesus’ tomb and sat upon it. The Roman soldiers were paralyzed with fear and fell to the earth. When they recovered, they fled. (Matthew 27:1, John…
Continue Reading about Easter Holy Week – Sunday-the Resurrection of Jesus Christ →
After the burial of Jesus on Wednesday before 6pm, the following three days were filled with traditions, sacred observances, and deep spiritual significance. “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of…
