This Lent we will be walking to Jerusalem, side-by-side with Jesus and the Israelites as we study the Gospel of Luke and learn to pray the Psalms of Ascent. This page is dedicated to walking alongside you on this pilgrimage to paradise – the New Creation. Check back each week for new resources including songs, playlists, albums, Scripture readings, prayers, poems, devotionals, and more!
Lent Schedule:
- Week 1: (2/17/21 – 2/20/21)
- 2/17 – Ash Wednesday
- Ash Wednesday 2021 Pre-Recorded Service
- Songs for the Road Day 1: The Nazarene (from Michael Card’s Book: The Nazarene)
- Daily Readings:
- Joel 2:1-2, 12-17
- Isaiah 58:1-12
- Psalm 51:1-17
- 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10
- Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
- RCL* Lectionary Prayers
- Blog Posts:
- 2/18
- Songs for the Road Day 2: This is Who You Are (from Michael Card’s Book: The Nazarene)
- Daily Readings:
- 2/19
- Songs for the Road Day 3: Galilee (feat. Phil Keaggy)
- Daily Readings:
- 2/20
- Songs for the Road Day 4: A Simple House
- Daily Readings:
- 2/22
- Songs for the Road Day 5: And Dreamed
- Daily Readings:
- 2/23
- Songs for the Road Day 6: His Humanity
- Daily Readings:
- 2/24
- Songs for the Road Day 7: The Gift to Believe
- Daily Readings:
- Blog Posts:
- Lent + Easter with Sacred Ordinary Days
- Two Roads to Jerusalem (The Rabbit Room)
- 2/25
- 2/26
- Songs for the Road Day 9: Go Find Out What This Means
- Daily Readings:
- 2/27
- Songs for the Road Day 10: The Kingdom
- Song Readings: Matthew 4:23, 6:33, 7:21, 13:11, 13:13, 13:44-45, 19:14
- Daily Readings: Psalm 22:23-31; Genesis 16:7-15; Mark 8:27-30
- 2/17 – Ash Wednesday
- Week 2: (2/21/21 – 2/27/21)
- Week 3: (2/28/21 – 3/6/21)
- Week 4: (3/7/21 – 3/13/21)
- Week 5: (3/14/21 – 3/20/21)
- Week 5: (3/21/21 – 3/27/21)
- Week 6: (3/28/21 – 4/3/21)
- 3/28 – Palm Sunday
- 4/1 – Maundy Thursday (Service Video: )
- 4/2 – Good Friday (Service Video: Ecumenical Assembly Community Service)
- 4/3 – Holy Saturday
- 4/4 – Easter Sunday
Resources:
- Scripture Readings:
- Lectionary Year B
- Narrative Lectionary (Sermon Series)
- Psalms of Ascent (Psalms 120-134)
- Music:
- Albums:
- In This Pilgrim Way (Wilder Adkins)
- Matthew: The Penultimate Question (Michael Card – See The Nazarene Devotional)
- Mark: The Beginning of the Gospel (Michael Card – See The Nazarene Devotional)
- Luke: A World Turned Upside Down (Michael Card – See The Nazarene Devotional)
- John: A Misunderstood Messiah (Michael Card – See The Nazarene Devotional)
- Songs for the Sojourn, Vol. 1 (Cardiphonia)
- Songs for the Sojourn, Vol. 2 (Cardiphonia)
- Lent (Liturgical Folk)
- Lent (Mike Janzen)
- Playlists:
- “Lent” (Sacred Ordinary Days)
- “Lent” (The Rabbit Room)
- “Lent” (Art & Theology)
- “Lent Means Springtime” (Ryan Flanigan from Liturgical Folk)
- “Songs for the Road” (Daily Devotions on Facebook)
- The Psalms Project
- Songs:
- Jerusalem (CityAlight)
- Albums:
- Poetry:
- David’s Crown (Malcolm Guite)
- Art:
- Songs for the Sojourn (Cardiphonia and Bellwether Arts)
- Stations of the Cross (Communion Arts and Tim Bauer)
- Books:
- Open and Unafraid (David O. Taylor)
- A Long Obedience in the Same Direction (Eugene Peterson)
- On the Road with St. Augustine (James K.A. Smith) — Pastor Daniel’s Lenten Reading
- Living Christ: Embodying Jesus’ Life in Worship Through the Christian Year (Daniel Rife)
- Blog Posts:
- “An Image, A Song, A Liturgy” (The Rabbit Room)
- Post 1: Ash Wednesday
- Post 2: Two Roads to Jerusalem
- Sacred Ordinary Days
- Post 1: Ash Wednesday
- Post 2: Lent + Easter with Sacred Ordinary Days
- “An Image, A Song, A Liturgy” (The Rabbit Room)
- Podcasts:
- Hidden Streams
- Sacred Ordinary Days
- The Habit: David Taylor (Open and Unafraid)
- Devotionals:
- Classes:
- Praying the Psalms: The Psalms as a Guide to Life
- When: Wednesday Nights at 7:00 via Zoom (2/17 – 3/31)
- Resources:
- Prayer Inspiration:
- Psalm Music:
- Bible Study:
- The Bible Project:
- How to Read Scripture: Biblical Poetry – The Psalms
- The Bible Project:
- Video:
- Praying the Psalms: The Psalms as a Guide to Life
- Children’s and Family Resources:
- A Place of Streams – Sacred Space for Your Homes (a Family Devotional)
- StoryMakers
- A Sanctified Art Lent 1: Embodied (Year B)
- A Sanctified Art Lent 2: Wilderness (Year A)
- A Sanctified Art Lent 3: Again and Again (Year C)
- Sacred Ordinary Days
- How to Make a Palm Frond Video
- Resource Archives:
- Fuller Studio: Resources for Exploring the Psalms
- Calvin Institute of Christian Worship: Psalm Gallery
- Calvin Institute of Christian Worship: Psalms of Ascent: Songs for the Journey
- Calvin Institute of Christian Worship: Lent Resource Guide
Lent:
Lent is a 6-week season during which we practice remembrance, possibly through fasting, repentance, and prayer. As we walk from the mountain to Jerusalem, we remember the 40 days of rain,the 40 years in the wilderness, Nineveh’s 40 days to repent, and the 40 days of Christ’s temptations. We step into the stories of healing, with 6 stops along the way each Sunday, to witness glimpses of our future rest. We walk in the shoes of those who have gone before so that we too may understand the joy of their deliverance and, as we walk next to Christ being conformed into His image, testify to all that He has done for us.
Psalms of Ascent:
The Psalms of Ascent are the prayers of a people who carry 40 years in the desert, persecution, slavery, and exile, all of which undergirded by promise and election – God’s choice and blessing. These prayers have a promise-laden optimism that nips at the heels of the speakers’ enemies, pouts in the dirt when told “not yet,” and expects an outcome in a specific way, with a specific crown, on a specific throne, in a specific place. But in praying them himself, Jesus reveals their true meaning: that these prayers are prophetic of the new creation – they are an image of a future reality which Israel saw and knew only in part, just as we do now in our perpetual promise-laden wilderness. This is why, as Israel looked ahead to Jesus, we now look back: so that we may see and know in full, through the face of Jesus Christ, that the promise of the new creation is certainly true.
*RCL – Revised Common Lectionary