Category: Lenten Readings

  • Forsaken

    Forsaken

    My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? – Psalm 22:1

  • Pass

    Pass

    And when I see the blood, I will pass over you. – Exodus 12:13

  • Shame

    Shame

    Look to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. – Hebrews 12:2

  • Groan

    Groan

    We ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies… We do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. – Romans 8:23,26

  • Whole

    Whole

    Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it. – I Thessalonians 5:23-24

  • Stayed

    Stayed

    You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever for the Lord God is an everlasting rock. – Isaiah 26:3-4

  • Forgive

    Forgive

    Jesus said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.’ And they cast lots to divide his garments. – Luke 23:34

  • Come In

    Come In

    Who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false… Lift up your heads, O gates! And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. – Psalm 24:3-4,7

  • Dwell

    Dwell

    Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth… ‘Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God’. – Revelation 21:1,3

  • Hate and Love

    Hate and Love

    Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said. Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate. – Amos 5:14-15