Bible Study: Lent 3 (A) – 2020
[…] comes vividly alive. In the rolling hills of God’s creation, there are fields of p lenty and green for God’s sheep to graze in. Reading this is almost overwhelming, but […]
Bible Study: Lent 2 (A) – 2023
[…] its full context here. Does reading it with this surrounding narrative change how you think about it? Word – Lent 2 (A) Bible StudyDownload PDF – Lent 2 (A) Bible StudyDownload
Bible Study: Lent 1 (A) – 2020
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Bible Study: Lent 1 (A) – 2023
[…] concrete language to describe spiritual realities. The psalmist describes the experience of keeping sins si lent as the wasting away of the body. When reading Hebrew poetry like the Psalms, […]
Choosing to Lose Paradise, Lent 1 (A) – 2014
[…] the closest by calling her his “Helpmeet,” meaning a helper who was meet, or equiva lent to him. God even walks in the Garden with them. What need could they […]
How Can These Things Be?, Lent 2 (A) – 2014
[…] if I tell you about heavenly things?” This is a question to meditate upon throughout Lent, a daily discipline in the dark of night that can lead us to the […]
Bible Study: Lent 1 (B) – 2018
Genesis 9:8-17 Since the time of humanity’s disobedience in the Garden, covenants have been the means by which we re-enter into relationship with God. It’s important to note that God’s […]
Bible Study: Lent 2 (B) – 2012
[…] loving God who journeys with him and has heard the cries of the afflicted. During Lent, we reflect on the very nature of God; the self-emptying, self-giving, eternally faithful and […]
Bible Study: Lent 2 (B) – 2018
Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 Although Abraham and Sarah enacted their own solution in response to Sarah being unable to conceive a child (Abram had a child, Ishmael, with Hagar, Sarai’s slave-girl), […]
Pre-Sanctified, Mass of the
[…] celebrated. In the Byzantine Rite, the liturgy of the pre-sanctified is used on weekdays during Lent (usually on Wednesdays and Fridays) when the eucharist is not celebrated. The liturgy of […]
Bible Study: Lent 4 (B) – 2012
[…] God and God’s divine promises. For us as we sit actively in this season of Lent, we may be lucky enough to avoid encounters with living serpents. However, we may […]
Bible Study: Lent 3 (B) – 2018
Exodus 20:1-17 The recitation of the Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, will likely be familiar to listeners of this week’s Old Testament reading, and many might have images of a technicolor […]
Love Generously, Give Abundantly, Lent 5 (C) – 2013
[…] as the man who raised him. The time is short and the grief is p lentiful as they break bread together in Bethany. Scarcity and abundance are the twin themes […]
Go! for Lent: Mark 10:52
[…] to depend on others for information, to patiently accept the slow knit of healing. As Lent begins, I am hyper-aware of the sin of my pride, how I take for […]
Most of the Western United States…, Lent 3 (A) – 2002
[…] a thirst for acceptance and forgiveness and love for our parched lives. The season of Lent is a time of self-imposed drought that can help remind us that our deepest […]
Bible Study: Lent 3 (C) – 2019
Exodus 3:1-15 Surely, surely, we are standing on holy ground. An ancient, well-worn story greets us this week: a bush alight that is never consumed and an eternally mysterious, divine […]
In Many Cultures of the World…, Lent 4 (A) – 2011
[…] in turn passing before his inspection. Any one of them might have made an excel lent king for the Lord’s people. Any one of them, that is, except for the […]
Go! for Lent: Matthew 26:36
[…] the Father. It is a pattern: openness, prayer, openness, prayer. And in this season of Lent, it can become for us a pattern for our lives, for we too are […]
Bible Study: Lent 3 (A) – 2017
[…] Romans 5:1-11 Paul’s reflections on suffering, endurance, and hope are a timely reflection during the Lenten season, when many of us take a hard look at the brokenness of ourselves […]
Go! for Lent: Luke 10:25-37
[…] our ideas about who is “other” or worthy or useful to God’s restoration project. This Lent, I’m drawn to a different point in the passage: Jesus’ final words to the […]