Recommended Reading for Lent
Recommended Reading for Lent:
To Walk With Jesus by Roberta Parker Martin.
A guide through Lent for personal reflection, renewal, and healing.
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Blessings of the Cross by various authors (Graham, Lucado, Lotz, Omartian)
40 days of meditations on God's Love and Grace for use during the period of Lent, the time of preparation leading up to Easter. ISBN-13: 978-1404104587
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Reliving the Passion by Walter Wangerin Jr.
Drawn from the Gospel of Mark, Reliving the Passion translates the events--from the moment when the chief priests plot to kill Jesus to the Resurrection--into the realm of feeling, image, and experience. In richly personal detail, Wangerin helps us recognize our own faces in the streets of Jerusalem; breathe the dark air of Golgotha; and experience, as Mary and Peter did, the bewilderment, the challenge, and the ultimate revelation of knowing the man called Jesus.
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Fasting by Scot McKnight
Is the practice of faith centered solely on the spirit? Is the body an enemy, or can it actually play a role in our pursuit of God? In this installation of the Ancient Practices Series, Dr. Scot McKnight reconnects the spiritual and the physical through the discipline of fasting.
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Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter by Orbis Books
Six dozen penetrating readings from evangelical stalwarts (Chambers, Stott, Yancey), classic masters (Augustine, Luther, Pascal), English favorites (Chesterton, Lewis, Sayers), and scores of others provide deep insight across the gamut of Lenten themes.
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Small Surrenders: A Lenten Journey by Emilie Griffin
Short, simple reflections encourage us to move beyond the surface question, "What are you giving up for Lent?" to embrace small surrenders. This is "a series of large and small conversions, inner revolutions, that lead to our transformation in Christ."
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The Way of the Heart by Henri Nouwen
Nouwen leads readers through the practices of solitude, silence, and prayer to teach us very practical ways to "fashion our own wilderness"—one of the great themes of Lent.
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Fasting: Beyond our Appetites by Lynne M. Baab
To a consumer generation always feeding but never satisfied, Baab presents fasting as an invitation to "back away" from the madness of this table and feed on the living bread. This book is a fitting primer for those seeking a broader understanding of fasting.
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Eastertide: Prayers for Lent through Easter by Phyllis Tickle
Whatever disciplines we do or don't choose for Lent, at the very least, we need a way to pray. Taken from her larger work The Divine Hours, this small paperback provides fixed-hour prayers to carry you through the season. Don't leave home without it.