Marcos 9:30-50

Starting with God 5: How to Start is a 5‑day plan designed to help you encounter God through the Bible. Reading with confidence and faith. This plan encourages you to start not with self‑improvement, but with God—revealed fully in Jesus and faithfully through Scripture. You’ll explore what it means to be born again, why faith must lead to obedience, how to start reading the Gospels (beginning with Mark), and how to keep going with the whole story. No shortcuts—just a faithful beginning with Jesus.

When you think about Easter, what comes to mind? Is it the pastel colors, the running around to different family gatherings? The Easter egg hunt in the backyard? Like most holidays, it’s easy to get caught in the busyness and miss what it’s truly about. Take 5 minutes each day this Holy Week and pray these eight prayers as a family.

Jesus lived a life that demonstrated love in a real, tangible way to those He encountered. As followers of Christ we can look at His life for examples of how to live our own! Treat others the way we want to be treated, worry less and forgive more.. these are just some of the ways we can be more like Jesus–follow this plan for more ideas!

Join Paul David Tripp—author of Lead: Gospel Principles for Leadership in the Church—as he draws on his decades of ministry experience to give churches twelve gospel-centered truths necessary for anyone to lead well. Each of these principles, built upon characteristics such as humility, dependency, and accountability, will enable new and experienced leaders alike to focus their attention on the ultimate leadership model: the gospel.