With Ash Wednesday having just appeared on the horizon on 17th February, here are a few suggestions for your Lenten Reading and Meditation.
Living His Story; Revealing the Extraordinary Love Of God in Ordinary Ways by Hannah Steele.
This is the Archbishop Of Canterbury’s Lent Book 2021.
How can we convey the love of God to our neighbours in a post-Christian world that has largely forgotten the gospel of Jesus Christ? In Living His Story, Hannah Steele uncovers liberating and practical ways of sharing the gospel story afresh. With warmth and encouragement, she shows us how we can live Jesus’ story in our own lives simply by being the people God made us and allowing people to be drawn to him through our natural gifts. Living His Story is a Lent devotional that will change the way you think about evangelism, show how ideally suited it is for the world we live in and fill you with confidence in sharing God’s love with the people around you. Set out in six sessions to take you through Lent, each chapter can be used as a single study for individuals or small groups to prepare for Easter. It will help you find space to see evangelism from a new practical perspective.
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Opening Our Lives Devotional Readings for Lent by Trystan Owain Hughes
Lent is not about giving up or taking up, but a radical opening up of our lives to God’s transformative kingdom That is the challenge Trystan Owain Hughes sets in Opening Our Lives. Through practical daily devotions he calls on us to open our eyes to God’s presence, our ears to His call, our hearts to His love, our ways to His will, our actions to His compassion and our pain to His peace.
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Keeping Lent and Easter by Leigh Hatts
Keeping Lent and Easter is an almost day to day guide to keeping and understanding Lent, through each of its key days, Holy Week and through to Easter, Ascension, Pentecost and Trinity Sunday.
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The Art Of Holy Week and Easter: Meditations on the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus by Sister Wendy Beckett
Brimming with Sister Wendy Beckett’s irrepressible wisdom and enthusiasm, The Art Of Holy Week and Easter is a beautiful Lent Book for 2021 exploring the spiritual riches of some of the world’s greatest paintings of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus. Illustrated in stunning full colour with thirty famous and lesser-known Western masterpieces and presented in a small, easily portable format, this little book is ideal Lent reading for all art lovers. The Art of Holy Week and Easter offers a chance to hear again the voice of Sister Wendy as she gently leads you into a deeper appreciation of all that these paintings convey to the discerning eye.
Newly published (21st January)
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Also available: The Art Of Lent
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Thy Will Be Done: The 2021 Lent Book by Stephen Cherry
At times of change, uncertainty and widespread anxiety, we need to discover again the freshness of our most familiar spiritual resources. Stephen Cherry’s Lent Book does exactly this by inviting the reader to immerse themselves in the most central, important and iconic of Christian prayers – The Lord’s Prayer. Mining the tradition for wisdom and insight, and finding inspiration in the theologians of the past such as St Paul, Gregory of Nyssa, John Calvin, but also more contemporary voices such as Evelyn Underhill, Simone Weil, and Michelle Obama, Thy Will Be Done presents the comforts and challenges of the prayer in 36 short chapters.
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Wishing you all a prayerful Lent.
All suggestions are from the Lent Preview edition of Aslan Christian Books. Aslanchristianbooks.com or phone 01373 823451 or I can order for you.
Lynn Winter
