Easter 2020: The Daily Prayer Project

by Daily Prayer Project

The Daily Prayer Project (DPP) is a daily prayerbook for the people of God that covers every season of the Christian Year with robust, rooted, and cross-cultural liturgies for prayer and scripture reading through seven editions per year. It is a model of prayer that emphasizes the communal, global, and historic practice of prayer, which fuels and forms our individual expressions of prayer in the present season of our lives.ABOUT THE SEASON OF Easter, there is no such thing as Christianity. From the earliest days of the Church, the celebration of Easter was central to the understanding of time itself. Every Sunday was a celebration of the Lord’s Day, the day of the resurrection of Jesus (1 Cor. 16:2; Rev. 1:10, etc). The yearly remembrance of and participation in the feast of Easter became the central and unifying rhythm of the Church’s calendar. Everything else in the Christian Year (Christmas, Maundy Thursday, Pentecost, Good Friday, etc.) builds off of Easter. To be Christians is to be Easter people. People of the new world backing up into the old one, the future into the present. People who surprise and shock the world with audacious Easter hope every single week.If dead people cannot come back to life, then hope is hopeless. There is no freedom from the “bondage to decay” that all of us fear and face in this mortal life. But in fact, “Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep!” This changes all expectation, hope, and work in the present. This changes how we experience the present enemy that is sin, evil, and death because death died in the empty tomb of Jesus and one day the first fruits will come to full harvest and this “last enemy” will be put to death for good. This season of Easter is one where we live into this reality in a fresh way again. There is freedom and hope for the life of the world and each of our lives within it because there is “a life of the world to come.” There is never “the end,” only the new beginning.That is what we celebrate in these 50 days of Easter. “He is risen indeed! Hallelujah!”

24 pages, Paperback

Published April 21, 2020