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These are all the posts for the rest of Lent being that I don't know how often I will have internet access. Just scroll down to the applicable day.

Lent Day 40 (Saturday)

Lamentations 3:1-9,19-24

1 Peter 4:1-8

John 19:38-42

Lent Day 39 (Good Friday)

Isaiah 52:13-53:12

Hebrews 10:16-25

John 18:1-19:42

Lent Day 38 (Thursday)

Exodus 12:1-42

Corinthians 11:23-26

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Lent Day 37 (Wednesday)

Isaiah 50:4-9a

Hebrews 12:1-3

John 13:21-32

Lent Day 36 (Tuesday)

Isaiah 49:1-7

1 Corinthians 1:18-31

John 12:20-36

What are we going to do?

I am going to be out of town until Good Friday so my plan is to post all of the readings tomorrow for the week so that they are all there. I will put the days of the week in brackets so there shouldn't be any confusion. We are going to make it!! I pray that you have the opportunity this week to see that when Jesus enters Jerusalem, he is searching for you. I pray that you each let yourselves be found to him this week.

Have a good week,

David

Lent Day 35 (Monday)

Isaiah 42:1-9

Hebrews 9:11-15

John 12:1-11

Sunday #6

Isaiah 50:4-9a

Philippians 4:5-11

Luke 19:28-40

Lent Day 34

Exodus 10:21-11:8

2 Corinthians 4:13-18

Mark 10:46-52

Lent Day 33

Exodus 9:13-35

2 Corinthians 4:1-12

Mark 10:32-45

Lent Day 32

Exodus 7:25-8:19

2 Corinthians 3:7-18

Mark 10:17-31

Lent Day 31

Exodus 7:8-24

2 Corinthians 2:14-3:6

Mark 10:1-16

Lent Day 30

Exodus 5:1-6:1

1 Corinthians 14:20-40

Mark 9:42-50

Lent Day 29

Exodus 4:10-31

1 Corinthians 14:1-19

Mark 9:30-41

Sunday #5

Exodus 3:16-4:12

Romans 12:1-12

John 8:46-59

Lent Day 28

Exodus 2:23-3:15

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Mark 9:14-29

Lent Day 27

Exodus 2:1-22

1 Corinthians 12:27-13:3

Mark 9:2-13

Lent Day 26

Exodus 1:6-22

1 Corinthians 12:12-26

Mark 8:27-9:1

Lent Day 25

I know that these are the same links as yesterday but for some reason in my lectionary, they repeat the verses. I choose to assume that my lectionary is infallible and not that we are in the midst of a typo.

Genesis 49:29-50:14

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Mark 8:1-10

Lent Day 24

Genesis 49:29-50:14

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Mark 8:1-10

Lent Day 23

Genesis 49:1-28

1 Corinthians 10:14-11:1

Mark 7:24-37

Sunday #4

Genesis 48:8-22

Romans 8:11-25

John 6:27-40

Lent Day 22

Genesis 47:27-48:7

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Mark 7:1-23

Lent Day 21

Genesis 47:1-26

1 Corinthians 9:16-27

Mark 6:47-56

Lent Day 20

Genesis 46:1-7, 28-34

1 Corinthians 9:1-15

Mark 6:30-46

Lent Day 19

Genesis 45:16-28

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Mark 6:13-29

Lent Day 18

Genesis 45:1-15

1 Corinthians 7:32-40

Mark 6:1-13

Lent 17

Sorry about the tardiness. Went upstairs for a nap last night and it just wound up being this morning. Hope you still have time to find what you came for :)


Genesis 44:18-34

1 Corinthians 7:25-31

Mark 5:21-43

Sunday #3

Genesis 44:1-17

Romans 8:1-10

John 5:25-29

Lent Day 16

Genesis 43:16-34

1 Corinthians 7:10-24

Mark 5:1-20

Lent Day 15

Genesis 43:1-15

1 Corinthians 7:1-9

Mark 4:35-41

Lent Day 14

Genesis 42:29-38

1 Corinthians 6:12-30

Mark 4:21-34

Lent Day 13

Genesis 42:18-28

1 Corinthians 5:6-6:8

Mark 4:1-20

Lent Day 12

Genesis 42:1-17

1 Corinthians 5:1-8

Mark 3:19b-35

Lent Day 11

Genesis 41:46-57

1 Corinthians 4:8-21

Mark 3:7-19a

Sunday #2

Genesis 41:14-45

Romans 6:3-14

John 5:19-24

Lent Day 10

Genesis 41:1-13

1 Corinthians 4:1-7

Mark 2:23-3:6

Lent Day 9

Genesis 40:1-23

1 Corinthians 3:16-23

Mark 2:13-22

Lent Day 8

Genesis 39:1-23

1 Corinthians 2:14-3:15

Mark 2:1-12

Lent Day 7 (again)

Ok. I have realized something today and that is that I counted Sunday as one of our days for Lent. Lent is supposed to be the 40 days from Ash Wednesday to the Saturday before Easter Sunday not including the Sundays along the way. The Sundays along the way are supposed to be mini-Easters, respites from the hard time of Lent. I know that we all want to observe that. That is why this is Lent Day 7 (again), because we want to observe the Sundays, not plow on through. Here are the readings for today.

Genesis 37:25-36

1 Corinthians 2:1-13

Mark 1:29-45

Lent Day 7

Genesis 37:12-24

1Corinthians 1:20-31

Mark 1:14-28

Lent Day 6

Genesis 37:1-11

1 Corinthians 1:1-19

Mark 1:1-13

From Sunday's Sermon

Jesus’ first thirty years or so were spent as a carpenter and masonry worker. Then, after being baptized by his hairy cousin John, Jesus walked out into the wilderness without food or shelter. He stayed for a few weeks in that remote, barren wilderness. The ruling spiritual powers tempted him with the gift of enduring, unimaginable political power…
But Jesus, tired and hungry and alone, did not relent. He had something very different in mind. Having resisted the temptation, having resolved his purpose with clarity…Jesus walked back into town and changed the world forever.

Don Everts

Lent Day 5

Daniel 9:3-10

Hebrews 2:10-18

John 12:44-50

Lent Day 4

Ezekiel 39:21-29

Philippians 4:10-20

John 17:20-26

Lent Day 3

Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32

Philippians 4:1-9

John 17:9-19

Lent Day 2

No OT reference today.

Philippians 3:12-21

John 17:1-8

Lent Services

This article from the Star Press highlights some local services commemorating Ash Wednesday. If you have a little time, or are curious maybe one of these works for you.

Here is the link

Ash Wednesday's Readings

Here are the readings for the first day of Lent. If you click on them, it will link you to the text. This should be a fun adventure. I pray that the discussion about the texts takes us deeper into the story of Lent and brings us face to face with the suffering of Jesus and we see ourselves in this story as well.

Amos 5:6-15

Hebrews 12:1-14

Luke 18:9-14

Lenten Reading

I read this passage last year around this time. It is from a book by Walt Wangerin called Reliving the Passion. It is a daily devotional to take you through Lent and a great read. Hope it gets you ready. It's even better if you read it out loud


In the sincerest silence of my soul, I murmured over and over "I love you Lord Jesus."

Jesus was dying. I could do nothing to save him-not even to ease him. I could only watch and suffer the sorrow too. I was a child. Yet I saw every detail of his passion exactly as the Bible set it down. Everything. I learned everything. Not because I was precocious, but because I felt it all.

And always there came the moment when I burst into tears.

Jesus looked at me. The love in his face was so horrible that I started to cry, and I murmured over and over "I love you too! I love you Lord Jesus."

Did he hear me? At the moment I couldn't know, because he was dying.

Now I know.

He heard me.

By Easter it was not Winter in North Dakota any more. Neither was it Spring. It was bleak hell. My father was wearing a black robe. The altar had been stripped of linen. All things were sad, all things severe and dark and dark and very true. And the preacher said, "He died for you."

How was I supposed to feel at that? Guilty? Beloved?

Jesus, I was just a child then. I love you with an incomprehensible pain. I did not want you to be dead,

Jesus?

Dear Lord Jesus- do you know what I felt when my father read the rest of the story? Who ran to the tomb on Sunday morning? Me! That was me! I stuck my head in the empty spaces. And when the gardener spoke, I got me a good spot next to Mary Magdalene. And who was the gardener? Why it was you!

To Mary, you said "Mary."

But to me you said "Wally, I love you."

Ha ha! And I with shining eyes said " I love you too. I love you, Lord Jesus. I do."

This is the light that has shone in our darkness- in the winters of North Dakota, in the melancholy winters of old, exhausted souls- and the darkness has not overcome it! This, then, is the way that we may enter the story of Jesus, the history of our salvation, that the Gospel might in every way become our own.

Lent 2008