Category: Lent Resources

Day Eight – The Priest. How often we see that power and position corrupt, in our politicians, business leaders, bankers and even religious leaders. These are perhaps easy to see, targets of the media,...

Day Seven – The Prayer. In ancient Israel the pressures to produce an heir and thus insure an inheritance in Israel were so tremendous that an inability to have children was thought of not...

Day Six – Passed Over. The first five days of our Lenten mediations have been hard work. The passages we have explored have been difficult to understand and today’s is no exception. Why were...

Day Five – The Lion and Lamb. As on Saturday we thought of God’s provision of the sacrificial ram for Abram, today we think specifically of the sacrifice of Jesus. In this section of...

Sacrificial Giving. Some of these events of the Old Testament are difficult for us to understand. Would God ask us to sacrifice our only child? Would we be willing to obey as Abraham was?...

Dark Skies. The context of this reading is that, at this time, a covenant was sealed by the dividing of an animal, the two parties would then pass between the halves. Perhaps acknowledging that...

Rainbow Bridge. The Rainbow reminds us of the covenant God makes with us. For there to be a rainbow there needs to be both rain and sunshine. After the destruction of the flood there...

Ashes to Ashes. Ash Wednesday reminds us of the fragility of human life. God tells Adam: “For dust you are and to dust you will return.” Alongside this fragility we are also subject to...

A Creative Lent You know that feeling you get when you think you should be doing something but don’t really want to do it? Well before last Christmas I felt that I should repeat...