Lent 2025
The content provides guidance on prayer practices, reflections, and liturgical elements for the Lenten season, promoting spiritual growth through scripture readings, prayers, art, and themes of failure and forgiveness.
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the tangible practices of Christian worship paint the picture, as it were—in the metaphors of the biblical story, the poetics of the Psalms, the meter of hymns and choruses, the tangible elements of bread and wine, the visions painted in stained glass—all of which works on our imaginations, teaching us to want.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
We embrace ascetic practices to learn to suffer. We know that we all inevitably will suffer, so we practice it ahead of time.
Tish Harrison Warren • Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
HOLDING TIGHTLY TO THE PROMISE
Martin Luther • Faith Alone: A Daily Devotional
Christians are Easter people living from and toward that Easter experience of a new creation.
Kelly M. Kapic • Becoming Whole: Why the Opposite of Poverty Isn't the American Dream
The practices of Christian worship train our love—they are practice for the coming kingdom, habituating us as citizens of the kingdom of God.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
historic Christian tradition and the pressing challenges of the present;