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The Third Day: Living the Resurrection
Tom Berlin
Bishop Tom Berlin uses his gifts of storytelling and understanding the Scriptures to connect the reader to the experiences of several individuals around Jesus in his final days, focusing on new life and redemption rather than loss. Join Peter, Mary Magdalene, and Thomas as they feel the despair of losing Jesus and the surprise and joy that awaits them in the resurrection.
24 Hours That Changed the World
Adam Hamilton
No single event in human history has received more attention than the suffering and crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. In this book, Hamilton will help you experience and understand the significance of Jesus’ suffering and death like never before. He retraces the day that changed human history in his usual straightforward yet easy, conversational style that speaks to both long-time Christians and those who are simply curious about the story of Christ’s crucifixion.
Remember: God's Covenants and the Cross
Susan Robb
United Methodist Pastor Susan Robb leads readers through the covenants with Noah, Abraham, Moses and Israel, and David, followed by the New Covenant established on Maundy Thursday. The Lenten story culminates with an examination of the cross as another example of God’s promise for a new world.
Imago Dei: Lenten Study on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
General Commission on Race and Religion
The Imago Dei Lenten Bible Study is a five-week study written in the style of Lectio Divina.
This form of Bible study is built upon prayerful listening to the Holy Spirit and to each other. In this Bible study we seek to share with one another the image of God and grow in our ability to live in the image of God and to perceive that same sacred image in others.
This form of Bible study is built upon prayerful listening to the Holy Spirit and to each other. In this Bible study we seek to share with one another the image of God and grow in our ability to live in the image of God and to perceive that same sacred image in others.
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A Just Passion: A Six-Week Lenten Journey
Esau McCaulley, Tish Harrison Warren, Sheila Wise Rowe, Ruth Haley Barton, and others
To better confront oppression in the world, we must own that reality and look to Christ our liberator. Lent is the opportune time for this as we contemplate his suffering together. With selections from a diverse range of InterVarsity Press books, A Just Passion has been curated to hold in tension the immense weight and hope of the Lenten season. This collection of short readings, breath prayers, and Scripture passages from the First Nations Version guides readers through a six-week journey of repentance, lament, worship, and healing.
A Time to Grow: Lenten Lessons from the Garden to the Table
Kara Eidson
Eidson encourages readers to slow down, move through the painstaking process of growth, and end together with great feasting and celebration of the resurrection. Readers will explore the intricacies of how faith is required to produce food and how that faith can lead us all to feast at the table on Easter morning.
Unrevealed Until Its Season: A Lenten Journey with Hymns
James C. Howell
Howell takes readers on a 40-day journey through popular songs of the church. Reflecting on well-loved hymn phrases, Howell helps readers discover who God is and what following Jesus means.
Gifts of the Spiritual Wilderness
J. Dana Trent
In this daily devotional, readers will explore: What Jesus’s experience teaches us about the gifts to be found in our modern wilderness experiences; How a spiritual drought can create a more meaningful Lent experience; What fasting, sacrifice, and temptation look like in our daily lives; and How we prepare to experience new life on the side of the Lenten journey.
Learning opportunities with children and youth
Faithful Families For Lent, Easter, and Resurrection
Traci Smith
Parents and guardians will find dozens of fun and easy practices for celebrating the Easter season with our kids. Smith also offers theological notes guiding parents on addressing the violence of the crucifixion and the meaning of Jesus’ death.
Make Room: A Child's Guide to Lent and Easter
Laura Alary
This audiobook uniquely connects its projects to the story of Jesus. Simple and practical activities such as baking bread, having a neighbor over for dinner, uncluttering your room, and watching less TV become acts of justice and kindness, part of a life of following and imitating Christ, and a way to make room for God in our lives and in the world around us.
Lent: A Journey of Discovery
Erik E. Willits
. This little book is a guide…a help…a companion on the 40-day journey of prayer and Christian practice known as Lent. On this journey, you’ll practice the disciplines of addition, subtraction, and introspection so that you may more fully participate in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Fathom: The Death and Resurrection of Jesus
Katie Heierman
Although this is a bible study, it has great content for parents and their youth to study together. In the 4 sessions, you study will explore the events surrounding Jesus’ suffering and crucifixion and their meaning for believers today. The lessons are a blend of narrative and traditional theological approaches to understanding the Bible story. Each lesson will focus on one passage that will launch into the larger context of God’s story, and how that story is meant to be theirs.