Living Well through Lent 2015

Description

From Ash Wednesday through Easter Sunday, Living Well through Lent 2015 provides daily readings and suggestions for reflection and action, inviting you to engage fully in your Lenten journey—with heart, soul, strength, and mind. Throughout the year, the Living Compass Faith & Wellness Ministry outfits individuals, families, congregations, and organizations with tools and training for the journey toward wholeness and wellness, helping to make Christ our compass in every area of our lives.
Living Well through Lent 2015 features contributions from:
The Rt. Rev. Laura Ahrens
The Rev. Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows
Dr. Courtney Cowart
The Rt. Rev. Scott Hayashi
The Rev. Shannon Kelly
Dr. Lisa Kimball
The Rt. Rev. James Mathes
The Rev. Kyle Oliver
The Rev. Dr. Scott Stoner
The Rev. Edward Thompson
The Rev. Chris Yaw
with an Introduction by
The Most Rev. Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori
Not only a personal devotional guide, Living Well through Lent 2015 also provides all you need for a small-group or congregation-wide Lenten program. Download the free program guide, along with prayers for daily use in Lent, at www.LivingCompass.org.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Episcopalian
• Episcopal Church
• Christianity

Informations

• Publié par: Church Publishing Incorporated
• Date de parution: 08 janvier 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780819232243
• Langue: English

Extrait

Living Well through Lent 2015
Practicing Resilience with All Our Heart, Soul, Strength, and Mind
presented by Living Compass Faith Wellness Ministry
with contributions from The Rt. Rev. Laura Ahrens The Rev. Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows Dr. Courtney Cowart The Rt. Rev. Scott Hayashi The Rev. Shannon Kelly Dr. Lisa Kimball The Rt. Rev. James Mathes The Rev. Kyle Oliver The Rev. Dr. Scott Stoner The Rev. Edward Thompson The Rev. Chris Yaw
and an Introduction by The Most Rev. Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori
2014 by Scott Stoner. All rights reserved.
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The scripture quotations contained herein are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of
Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission.
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ISBN: 978-0819232243
Contents
Introduction: The Journey Starts Here
Ways to Use This Lenten Devotional: A Personal Devotional and a Church Lenten Program
Ash Wednesday February 18, 2015
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Friday, February 20, 2015
Saturday, February 21, 2015
First Sunday in Lent February 22, 2015
Monday, February 23, 2015 - Weekly Resilience Practice Embodying Hope
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - Living Well with All Your Heart
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - Living Well with All Your Soul
Thursday, February 26, 2015 - Living Well with All Your Strength
Friday, February 27, 2015 - Living Well with All Your Mind
Saturday, february 28, 2015 - Living Well in Thought, Word, and Deed
Second Sunday in Lent March 1, 2015
Monday, March 2, 2015 - Weekly Resilience Practice Clarifying Your Purpose
Tuesday, March 3, 2015 - Living Well with All Your Heart
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - Living Well with All Your Soul
Thursday, March 5, 2015 - Living Well with All Your Strength
Friday, March 6, 2015 - Living Well with All Your Mind
Saturday, March 7, 2015 - Living Well in Thought, Word, and Deed
Third Sunday in Lent March 8, 2015
Monday, March 9, 2015 - Weekly Resilience Practice Modeling Resilience
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 - Living Well with All Your Heart
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 - Living Well with All Your Soul
Thursday, March 12, 2015 - Living Well with All Your Strength
Friday, March 13, 2015 - Living Well with All Your Mind
Saturday, March 14, 2015 - Living Well in Thought, Word, and Deed
Fourth Sunday in Lent March 15, 2015
Monday, March 16, 2015 - Weekly Resilience Practice Practicing Elasticity
Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - Living Well with All Your Heart
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - Living Well with All Your Soul
Thursday, March 19, 2015 - Living Well with All Your Strength
Friday, March 20, 2015 - Living Well with All Your Mind
Saturday, March 21, 2015 - Living Well in Thought, Word, and Deed
Fifth Sunday in Lent March 22, 2015
Monday, March 23, 2015 - Weekly Resilience Practice Letting Go
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - Living Well with All Your Heart
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 - Living Well with All Your Soul
Thursday, March 26, 2015 - Living Well with All Your Strength
Friday, March 27, 2015 - Living Well with All Your Mind
Saturday, March 28, 2015 - Living Well in Thought, Word, and Deed
Palm Sunday March 29, 2015
Monday, March 30, 2015 - Weekly Resilience Practice Seeking with Faith
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 - Tuesday in Holy Week
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 - Wednesday in Holy Week
Maundy Thursday April 2, 2015
Good friday April 3, 2015
Holy Saturday April 4, 2015
Easter April 5, 2015
Introduction: The Journey Starts Here

THE MOST REV. DR. KATHARINE JEFFERTS SCHORI
Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church
W hat is the compass that guides our lives? This book and the process it outlines provide an opportunity to examine where our GPS is directing us-is it a Godward Positioning System, or is it leading in another direction? Ideally, that positioning system guides our life and loves toward the Creator of all that is through habits and patterns that form a rule of life. That system becomes vital support as the way unfolds before us, whether it brings a new stage of life, a crisis, or overflowing, unalloyed joy. That system is meant to be a network of resilience that bounds, reflects, and redirects our movement toward a holy life in God.
Lent is an opportunity to review, refine, and retune all the systems of our lives in the hope of living more congruently as resurrected people. Each of us has been given abundant and unique resources for a risen life in the Body of Christ. We seek to love God with all our heart and soul and strength and mind, and to love our neighbors as ourselves. Each of us is challenged by different aspects of the gifts we have and how to use them most effectively and appropriately.
This process invites you to reflect on several parts of the system that undergirds your life. What is the balance between and among the desires and drives in your life? Have some become overly urgent? Are some neglected? Is there sufficient time for silence? for conversation with God? for conversation in communities both intimate and public? How do you balance learning and practicing new skills with growing in human relationship? Where is the balance in your life between human being and human doing? How do you cultivate the awareness of being God s beloved? How often do you examine where and how you would like to see your capacity for loving response grow-and how might that develop?
Lent is often compared to spring cleaning, as an opportunity to reorder the house and empty it of what no longer fits, has gone rancid, or might be a gift more suited to someone else. The system of support and direction that we seek is meant to be elastic and springy, able to respond to the stress of life. It exists in an appropriate state of dynamic tension-neither too much nor too little-for excessive tension makes the system brittle and likely to fail, and too little makes the system unresponsive, flaccid, and nearly dead.
You are invited into greater and more abundant life. Start here.
Ways to Use This Lenten Devotional: A Personal Devotional and a Church Lenten Program

W e at the Living Compass Faith Wellness Ministry are delighted to share this Lenten devotional with you. We are especially honored to include the voices of 10 guest writers this year.