Ash and dust. Sorrow and repentance. An invitation to remember our baptism and dwell on our own mortality. The blunt grimness of Lent can be intimidating.
But the solemn, 40-day period of preparation for Easter that begins on Ash Wednesday was never meant to be undertaken solo. “We may—we will—find that we can’t do it alone,” writes Julie Polter. “We need help. We need community. We need a God who is reaching toward us and isn’t afraid of meeting us at the point of our worst sin, a God who knows death intimately, and pulls us toward life.”
The resources in the list below—books, free downloads, email series, audio formats, and other media—aim to accompany us as we accept Lent’s invitation to self-examination, renewal, and yes, good old-fashioned repentance.
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