Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.” Psalm 51:1-2 “Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.” Job 42:5-6 “My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you. Lenten Devotional from CRM Empowering LeadersĪ PRAYER FOR ASH WEDNESDAY by Scotty Smith Giving Up Self-Discipline for Lent, by Mark GalliĢ2. A late arrival is 40 Ideas for Lent 2014 by Rachel Held EvansĢ1. A Violent Grace by Michael Card, book & CDĢ0. Can You Drink the Cup? by Henri Nouwenġ9. Blessings of the Cross eBook, Lenten devotions by Billy Graham, Max Lucado, Stormie Omartian and othersġ6, Sweet Deliverance: A Collection of Lenten Readings by various including CS Lewis, Luci Shaw, Tim Keller, Karl Barth, Henri Nouwen, and NT Wright.Īnd finally for this year, here are some devotional books I’m using:ġ8. Book of Common Prayer/Lectionary digital booklet 'Rhythm’ for Lent, Easter and Pentecostġ5. Lenten Devotional from Grandview Calvary Baptist Church, with links to song for Lentġ4. So Ash Wednesday, when we bow our heads and acknowledge the common truth of our mortality, is profoundly countercultural–and profoundly real.ġ1. And given the din of advertising and political polemic and hype and doublespeak surrounding us, it’s rare to escape the fantasy that money or science, fame or violence or shiny objects will somehow save us from death. It’s rare in our culture to admit, in public, that you’re not in control–that you, basically, are not God. Why would anyone want to remember, much less celebrate, the fact that you’re going to die? It’s a fasting that caters to our own eyes, flesh, and pleasure but not the kind of fasting that God invites us to: a life broken and transformed by the things of God.” Isaiah 58 speaks of fasting but fasting that God is not pleased with. We need Gospel.Īnd by Gospel, I’m not speaking of a self-help, pop spiritual psychology, but a Gospel that cuts into the heart of humanity with a grace that compels us to not just merely to salvation but a life committed to justice, reconciliation, and redemption. I asked you to surrender your life.” – God, by Eugene Cho “Umm, I didn’t ask you to give up coffee. 'Trail to the Tree’ Lenten Devotional by Ann Voskampĩ. Lenten Lights: Devotional by Noel PiperĨ. Pray about giving up these things AND keep your chocolate! :-)ħ. These are things to 'give up for Lent’ and for a lifetime: fear, envy, impatience, entitlement, resentment, blame, self-pity, pride, worry and more. But we can’t begin to see this God until we turn from our arrogance and certainty and cynicism and ambivalence.” Like the prodigal son we then begin to see a loving God running with abandon to welcome us home. We let go of our indulgent self-loathing. We let go of all the pretenses and destructive independence from God. “This is not a season of taking up self-denial, it’s a season of relinquishment. Why I love Ash Wednesday and Lent part 2: Death, by Nadia Bolz-Weber Which is all any of us really need when it comes down to it.”ĥ. “There is actually great hope in admitting my mortality and brokenness because then I finally lay aside my sin management program and allow God to be God for me. Why I love Ash Wednesday and Lent Part 1: Sin, by Nadia Bolz-Weber House for All Sinners and Saints’ 40 Ideas for Keeping a Holy Lent (from Nadia Bolz-Weber)Ĥ. Pilgrim Year: Lent - a multimedia devotional from Steve Bell (songs, art, poems, videos, etc)ģ. Yet we are told to ‘return to God with all our heart’ …Ģ. Don’t we piece our hearts out to the unrequited love of so many false promises and self-indulgences and doesn’t the toxicity of all of it all seem to preserve those little pieces of our heart like formaldehyde. My problem…and maybe yours too, is that I sort of piece my heart out to things that cannot love me back. I don’t think that my problem is that I eat too much sugar or I spend too much time on Facebook. Ash Wednesday Sermon: The Crap We Give Our Hearts To, by Nadia Bolz-Weber Here’s a collection of writings connected to Lent and Ash Wednesday:ġ.
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