Lent & Easter

The Good of Giving Up  is an evangelical case for Lent and a guide to its practice.  This seven-day plan gives a brief history of Lent and shows how to observe Lent with proper motivation.  Whether you are Anglican or Baptist, Reformed or Pentecostal --  The Good of Giving Up  will encourage you to participate in what many know as a rich spiritual journey.

The Good of Giving Up

What does a suffering experience mean to you? How would you describe it in a few words? 

For Jesus it was a journey of suffering and death on the way to resurrection. For us as believers, suffering is a journey to know Him and experience the power of His resurrection by sharing in His suffering, and thus becoming equal to Him in His death.
 
During this Lent journey, we spend 40 days with the questions that Jesus asked in the last days of his life.

Mosaiek Church Lent 2025: Jesus' Questions in Suffering

The Christian life is a long race. But we’re not running on our own. Hebrews 12:1-2 tells us that we are surrounded by “a great cloud of witnesses” to spur us on. Two thousand years from when this was written, the cloud of witnesses is larger than ever. This plan is an opportunity to be encouraged by voices of the past to fix our gaze on Jesus.


Five Days of Encouragement From Saints of Old

The Lent Project is an initiative of Biola University's Center for Christianity, Culture and the Arts. Each daily devotion includes a portion of Scripture, a devotional, a prayer, a work of visual art or a video, a piece of music, and a poem plus brief commentaries on the artworks and artists. The Seven Last Words of Christ refers to the seven short phrases uttered by Jesus on the cross, as gathered from the four Christian gospels. This devotional project connects word, image, voice and song into daily meditations on these words.

Last Words: A Lenten Meditation on the Final Sayings of Christ, Week 2

Last Words: A Lenten Meditation on the Final Sayings of Christ, Week 5

The justice displayed in the life of Jesus is one motivated by love. A justice that is restorative and redemptive. A justice that is displayed with a hand outstretched, eyes that see and a heart opened. A justice centred in the cross. A justice so full of love, compassion, mercy and service it is extravagant!

Real Hope: Justice Towards Our Neighbours 

Is there more? More to our lives than a ticking clock. More than the breath in our lungs, the work of our hands, the thousand words we speak each day? In this devotional, we discover that in a world of more, Jesus is enough. And because He is enough, I am enough. 

Finding Enough in a World of More 

The Lenten journey is a counterintuitive journey to life by way of the cross. Each year at this time we are invited to turn and face those things from which we would rather run and hide. We walk to the cross where we experience the great unveiling and see things as they really are. We see God for who God is, and we discover ourselves for who we are. 

The Human Becoming: A Lenten Devotional

Whether it’s your favorite movie, book, or reality show, you know there's nothing like a good plot twist! A plot twist can make us rethink everything we thought we knew about the story. In this 30-day devotional series from Grow Curriculum, designed for Lent we’ll focus on how Jesus experienced “life-plot twists” and how he is with us when we go through unexpected moments in our life. 
