Lent Devotionals

Forty Days of Praying and Pondering Through Lent... In these reflections for Lent, Barbara Glasson leads us through forty days focusing on the theme of water: its power, potential, terror and gentleness, providing a deep well of daily prayer and meditation. Covering issues both domestic and international, Barbara seeks to centre our Lenten reflections on the water that both gives us life and which challenges us to live for justice. As Barbara herself says: ‘Our relationship with water is primal: all life depends on the abundance of a fresh, clean water supply. And yet so many live with drought, thirst and wilderness. In these reflections, I hope you will come to understand the power and beauty of water, and how it relates to the transformative, sustaining power of prayer.’

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Through the seven 'I Am' statements of Jesus from John's Gospel, popular author David Adam encourages us to find God in the present tense. Too often the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are spoken of in the past tense. This group course will help us to find the loving God who is present and with us now.The sessions cover:• I am the bread of life• I am the light of the world• I am the gate for the sheep• I am the good shepherd• I am the way, and the truth, and the life• I am the true vine• I am the resurrection and the life Specification Book format - Paperback Published - October 2008 Weight - 93g Page Count - 75  Dimensions - 12.8 x 19.8 x 0.8 cm ISBN - 9781848670778 ISBN 10 -184867077X

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The six weeks of Lent are a time of preparing: a time when we seek to understand the fullness of Christ's offering on the cross and rejoice in the resurrection. Lent is a time to improve our prayer life and to make sure we spend some time each day with our God.David Adam, author of many inspiring books on prayer and spirituality, presents here daily prayers that are a spur to help us enter into stillness with our God of love. The weekly themes are: dedication, love, guidance, the help of God, the power of God.

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Following the traditional pattern of fourteen stations, David Adam's book combines beautiful prayers with vivid illustrations. His book may be followed at any time of year, but is traditionally used as an act of devotion on Fridays in Lent and on Good Friday.

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Joyce Huggett has written for busy people and helps us to ask searching questions about how we live and pray, and how to discover what lessons we can learn as we journey with Jesus from his baptism to his suffering, death and resurrection.

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To deepen our devotional life we need a focus for our thoughts, spiritual food to nurture our faith and discipleship. Daily Lent Reflections makes more accessible the spiritual sustenance already offered by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.For each of the 40 days of Lent, there are readings, reflections, prayers and points to ponder on themes such as forgiving others, doing that little bit extra in God's service, choosing the way of the kingdom instead of the often-enticing 'way of the world', seeking God's will rather than our own, valuing and respecting others.How do we work out such ideas in terms of daily life? What are their implications for us today? This book sets out to answer such questions, bringing home the challenge, promise, encouragement and inspiration implicit within the teaching of Jesus.

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Nick Fawcett's reflective writings have for many years offered a valued resource for worship and personal devotion, providing a powerful and imaginative way of communicating the gospel message across the Christian seasons.In this comprehensive compilation, drawn from several of his most successful publications, Nick provides a hundred carefully revised meditations on Lenten themes, each linked to a reading of Scripture and rounded off by a short prayer.Here, then, is a perfect tool for offering fresh insights into this special season of prayer, contemplation, confession and recommitment.Contents The themes covered are:Testing and temptationGrace and mercyCostly commitmentExamining ourselvesFaith and worksTime and space for GodNew beginningsJesus transfiguredMothering Sunday

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Here, for the period from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, is a selection of guided daily Bible readings, drawn from both Old and New Testaments. The material is arranged to explore some of the key themes of Lent, with a week looking at each of desert, journey, conflict, discipline, fruitfulness and - for Holy Week - suffering, especially the sufferings of Christ. In addition to comments which set each passage in context and apply its message for today, there are prayers and suggestions for worship, reflection and further study on the day's theme.

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Two travellers on the road to Emmaus said to each other, 'Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road?' These meditations celebrate the joy of meeting up with Jesus, of knowing the risen Lord. They rejoice that Jesus is alive and present with us now. There is a meditation for each day from Ash Wednesday to the Saturday after Easter. Each meditation has a passage of Scripture, where the life-giving powers of God are seen to be at work. The aim is to help us spend time with the risen Lord. To explore the Scripture readings, David Adam uses the ancient tradition of Lectio Divina, Holy Reading. The purpose of these meditations is not study, though information is provided, but to be still in the presence of God and rejoice in his saving power.

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Christ has no body now, but yours. No hands, no feet on earth, but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world. St Teresa of Avila.As Christians, we are all challenged by Jesus' final commission to his disciples, to go and make disciples of all nations. It has clearly not yet been accomplished and this is the springboard for Paul Cox's thought-provoking course of Lent reflections in No Body But Yours. Through six sessions, each of which can be followed either as a personal reflection for Lent, or as a group, the sentiments expressed in the prayer by St Teresa of Avila are examined in detail.No Body but Yours is an essential aid for Lent, encouraging us to reflect not just upon how we live our faith, but how this faith is proclaimed and perhaps more importantly, how we can be Christ to and for others.Calling on us all to take more seriously, and with greater personal engagement, the task Jesus has set us, Paul Cox encourages us to examine how we can be more Christlike, both in our own lives and in relation to others. It is a wonderful and daunting challenge, and one which, by our baptism into a life with Jesus, we agree to take up. Contents About the authorIntroduction SESSION 1 No body but yoursSESSION 2 No hands but yoursSESSION 3 No feet but yoursSESSION 4 Your eyes of compassionSESSION 5 Let nothing disturb. Let nothing frighten you SESSION 6 All things pass away: God never changes Specifications Book Format - Paperback Published - September 2016 Weight -155g Page Count - 89 Dimensions - 21cm x 14.8cm x 0.5cm ISBN - 9781848678675 ISBN 10 - 1848678673

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Ray Simpson's Lent group study offers us the opportunity to walk with Christ through his desert - not just the wilderness of Judea, but also the city of Jerusalem, where he was tried and tested. By walking with him we shall confront our own weaknesses and strengths as well as his.

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A collection of readings and prayers for every day of Lent to help you pray with interest and imagination, to follow the way of Jesus more closely, and to celebrate his victory over sin and death in his Easter triumph.The book stimulates thought and prayer, offering new insights, new angles of vision and new ways of focusing on God.The readings offer a basis for prayer, pointers for further investigation and starting-points for discussion.

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Christians have often found that practising the physical discipline of limiting what and when they eat also deepens their spiritual awareness of God. This book is designed to sensitise readers in a similar way, helping them to make God a daily reality and to enable a closer relationship with their deeper selves. Each day's thought begins with an often light-hearted look at an aspect of human behaviour or something extraordinary from the natural world. This is used to encourage inward reflection on a facet of our own experience, in the light of God's involvement in our lives.

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In this devotional Lenten book, Eleanor Watkins meditates upon the transforming personal encounters with Jesus recorded in the Gospels - from the big characters to the little boy who had the five loaves and the two fish - and draws the reader into those encounters. For each of the forty days of Lent there is a presentation of a different character accompanied by a reading, a reflection and a prayer.

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Intended for individual use on a daily basis, Forty Days provides food for thought based on the readings for Lent for all three years of the Revised Common Lectionary. Each day provides a summary of the Bible passage(s), and a line of thought to stimulate the reader's own reflection.

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The perfect daily companion for the Lenten season, this little book is a comprehensive narrative of the Passion using details and aspects of all four accounts.Mark's account is used as a base, and details unique to the other three Gospels are interwoven to produce a 'composite Passion.' This larger, fuller account of the Passion is used as a springboard for meditation and prayer. For each day of Lent, there is one reading from the Passion on the left-hand page and one meditation on the right-hand page.The book contains three appendices: one of explanatory notes; one that describes a Passover Seder; and one with a suggested use of selections from the material within the congregation during Holy Week.

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In 47 daily Lenten reflections on readings from Luke's Gospel, beginning on Ash Wednesday, Alan Bartlett examines how we see Jesus.As we say in the creeds, Jesus was both truly God and truly human but,Alan Bartlett argues, Jesus remains a bit baffling and so remains distant. However, if we are prepared to spend time with the Jesus presented to us in the Gospels, looking slowly and honestly, then we will meet him, experience his deep humanity and move through that to see God in him and so meet God in him.

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Lent is traditionally a time of fasting. All too easily we can see fasting in negative terms - of things given up. But we should also consider what we could increase and do more of. This set of daily Lenten meditations suggests something of each - some things to give up and some to take on. To make use of it will be something of a Lenten discipline: a fast from some activities whilst nourishing hearts and minds. Fast & Feast is also suitable for personal reflection and prayer.

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The Christian journey that leads to a tomb also leads beyond it to the glory of Easter Day. Using the daily Gospel readings for Lent to Easter as a starting point, Brian Fahy has written a personal reflection for each day of the journey to Easter, bringing together positive, heart-warming and inspirational stories and memories from his own life.When the goal of all our striving is a bright one, when there is a joyful end to our pilgrimage, then the days of walking are lifted from being merely a trek and a trudge through the valley of darkness. We need bright purposes every day of our lives. We need to know we are going somewhere.

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