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Lent: Preparing for a Banquet
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Alan Jones
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- Lent
- Banquets
Not long ago, just as the season of Lent had got underway, a friend complained to me, “I know it’s Lent, but where’s the joy?” It is easy to understand why Lent is often misunderstood as a period of s...
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Mother Teresa
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- Lent
- Repentance
As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus' thirst...'Repent and believe' Jesus tells us. What are we to repent? Our indifference, our hardness of heart. What are we to believe?...
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Preaching Lent 2026: Balancing Repentance and Grace
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The Pastor's Workshop
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Psalm 51:, Psalm 121:, Romans 5:
Do you detect a little discomfort in your congregation when it comes to Lent? Maybe you feel it, too? We dedicate a whole season to repentance, confession, and spiritual disciplines like fasting, lead...
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The Roots of Ash Wednesday
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Beth Bevis
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Joel 2:12-13, Romans 3:20-26, Job 42:5-6, Ezekiel 9:4, Genesis 2:7, Ecclesiastes 3:20
Since the seventh century, the Western church has observed the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday—the fortieth day before Easter, not counting Sundays. In addition to providing ample time for self-examina...
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The Origin of the Imposition of Ashes
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Beth Bevis
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Joel 2:12-13, Romans 3:20-26, Job 42:5-6, Ezekiel 9:4, Genesis 2:7, Ecclesiastes 3:20
The imposition of ashes, now a familiar Ash Wednesday tradition in Catholic, Anglican, and many Protestant churches, has its roots in an early church penitential practice. For people who had been excl...
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Fasting as a Flashpoint Issue for the Reformation
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On a chilly morning in March 1522, in the city of Zurich, the printer Christoph Froschauer sat down with his workers and shared a plate of sausages, in open deﬁance of the Roman Catholic Church, which...
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In those days Jesus came from Nazareth
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Ann Siddall
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Matthew 3:13-16
In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John. On this day we come from many different suburbs—to remember his story, to offer our worship and to give witness to our fait...
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The Art of Remembering
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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James 1:17, Ephesians 4:null
The Necessity of Memory Memory—or, more actively, remembering , plays an all-important role in our lives. Our culture likes us to focus on the now, "looking forward rather than looking back&q...
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Adapted from Psalm 29:1, 3-5, 7-9, Luke 2:14, Revelation 4:8,11
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Psalm 29:1, Luke 2:14, Psalm 29:null
Leader: Then let us wait for the Lord, and in this season of Lent, let us wait by the cross. "Ascribe to the Lord, glory and strength." Glorify God's holy name. People: We worship the L...
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Spirituals and Suffering
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Luke A. Powery
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There is no lack of pain and suffering in the world. Look around. Read the newspaper. Click on the Internet. Scroll Facebook or read a tweet. Suffering is always present like the paparazzi. It seems t...
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Chris Seay
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We need to take time to connect with the poor, resist our unceasing cravings, and pray. But we also need to gather with friends and family, share in God's good provision, eat delicious food, tell ...
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O God, whose blessed Son did fast forty
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Ernest Fremont Tittle
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O God, whose blessed Son did fast forty days and nights in preparation for his holy mission; beget in us, we beseech thee, the same desire which was in him to learn and do thy will. Forbid that throug...
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Adapted from Joel 2:12-13
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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Joel 2:12-13
Leader: “Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; People: and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord y...
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Andrew Murray
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Matthew 17:21, Mark 9:29
Sorrow and anxiety cannot eat: joy celebrates its feasts with eating and drinking… We are creatures of the senses: our mind is helped by what comes to us embodied in concrete form; fasting helps to ex...
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Lord, Holy One, have mercy on us. We
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Joel 2:12-13, Romans 3:20-26, Job 42:5-6, Ezekiel 9:4, Genesis 2:7, Ecclesiastes 3:20
Lord, Holy One, have mercy on us. We confess our sins to you. We have fallen short of your glory and without your mercy and grace, we would be dust. We repent now. Lord, as we enter into this Lenten s...
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Andrew Murray
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Prayer is the reaching out after God and the unseen; fasting, the letting go of all that is of the seen and temporal.
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Identifying Christians
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Kerry Weber
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On the whole, though, Catholics (and Protestants) aren’t identifiable at first glance. Yet, on Ash Wednesday I’m always surprised by the number of people I see on the streets and in the subways sporti...
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A Trench in the Ground
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Wendell Berry
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At start of spring I open a trench in the ground. I put into it the winter’s accumulation of paper, pages I do not want to read. Again, useless words, fragments, errors. And I put into it the contents...
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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- Lent
- Self-Denial
Self-denial means knowing only Christ, and no longer oneself. It means seeing only Christ, who goes ahead of us, and no longer the path that is too difficult for us… . Self-denial is saying only: He g...
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Recovering a Vision and the Taste of the New Life
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Alexander Schmemann
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“…the liturgical traditions of the Church, all its cycles and services, exist, first of all, in order to help us recover the vision and the taste of that new life which we so easily lose and betray, s...
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God, we come with hesitant steps and
Author

Christine Sine
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Psalm 139:23-24, Psalm 51:, Romans 8:9-17, 2 Corinthians 3:7-18, John 10:1-10, Job 15:31-32
God, we come with hesitant steps and uncertain motives to sweep out the corners where sin has accumulated, and uncover the ways we have strayed from Your truth. Expose the empty and barren places wher...
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Adapted from Psalm 51 (BOCP)
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Psalm 51:1-13
Leader: Have mercy on me, O God, according to your loving-kindness; in your great compassion blot out my offenses. People: Wash me through and through from my wickedness and cleanse me from my sin. F...
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Wilderness Prayer, Inspired by Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14-16
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Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia
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Deuteronomy 8:2-3, Deuteronomy 8:14-16
God of the Ages Our Deliverer and Provider We bow in humility before your grace You feed us with the divine Your word Your body You quench our thirst with living water A stream in the desert You gu...
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Repentance Makes Way for God’s Grace
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Billy Graham
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Matthew 4:17
Repentance is a very unpopular word. But the first sermon Jesus ever preached was “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matthew 4:17). This was God speaking through His Son. Jesus had come w...
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God of grace, we look to your son,
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Austin D. Hill
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God of grace, we look to your son, today, who began his journey to the cross. As we trace his footsteps to Jerusalem, please give us your grace. For we know that we are called to follow Jesus, to carr...
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William Williams
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- Lent
- Pilgrimage
Guide me ever, great Redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land. I am weak, but you are mighty; hold me with your pow’rful hand. Bread of heaven, bread of heaven, feed me now and evermore. feed me now...
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God, our heavenly Father–from whom all
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Richard Herman
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God, our heavenly Father–from whom all families gain purpose, direction and life: When we need bread, you don’t give a stone; and when we ask for fish, you don’t give a snake; for you are good, you ar...
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Repent and Return, a prayer of confession
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Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia
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Joel 2:13
ONE VOICE: Joel 2:13 Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful ALL: We drift away from our true home We forget we are Your beloved We forget we are not God Rend our hearts, O Go...
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Almighty and merciful God, the fountain
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Alcuin of York
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Psalm 51:2-3, Romans 6:22, Acts 3:19, Isaiah 1:18, Philippians 1:6, Galatians 5:22-23
Almighty and merciful God, the fountain of all goodness, who knows the thoughts of our hearts: We confess that we have sinned against you. Wash us, we implore you, from the stains of our past sins...
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The Silent Daily Anxiety
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Annemarie S. Kidder
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In his devotional guide on preparing for the rite of confession in the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard says that true repentance from the persp...