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Lent Devotional – Listening

Wednesday, April 16 By: Rev. Catherine Nance The Lord GOD has given me a trained tongue, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens, wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught. Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious; I […]

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Lent Devotional – The Golden Rule

Tuesday, April 15 By: Zayna Trammell So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. Matthew 7:12 ~~~ Norman Rockwell, illustrator for the Saturday Evening Post and other periodicals, painted many heartwarming and humorous scenes. He also created some very thought-provoking […]

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Lent Devotional – Beech Trees

Thursday, April 10 By: John Eldridge See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. Isaiah 43:19 The woods behind our house are full of beech trees. They are the trees that do not shed […]

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Lent Devotional – Embracing Divine Interruptions

Monday, April 7 By: Julie Massie She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped. ‘Who touched me?’ Jesus asked. Luke 8:44-45 We live in a world where interruptions are incessant. Through social media, advertising, emails, pop-up notifications, children, coworkers, and a billion other things, we are […]

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Lent Devotional – Loving Relentlessly

Monday, March 31 By:Pat Bellingrath But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love. 1 Corinthians 13 As I journey through Lent, I am especially aware of the despair […]

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Lent Devotional – Hymns of the Passion

Thursday, March 27 By: Nancy Carmon After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal […]

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Lent Devotional – Spiritual Fasting for Lent

Monday, March 24 By: David Lineberger Yet even now, declares the LORD, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments. Joel 2:12-13 Strictly speaking, fasting refers to abstaining from food for a period of time, usually one day from sunrise to […]

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Lent Devotional – When The Song Begins

Thursday, March 20 By: Kristen Struyk Then Hezekiah commanded them to offer the burnt offering on the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the Lord began also, with the trumpets and with the instruments of David king of Israel. 2 Chronicles 29:27 “It is when this surrender of our lives to […]