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Embracing Lent: A Guide to Spiritual Renewal

During Lent, from Ash Wednesday to Easter, Christians focus on their relationship with God. Protestants, once skeptical, now embrace Lent. Scott Hubbard advocates embracing it as a path to refocus and encounter Jesus. Lent is seen as an opportunity for spiritual growth and reflection, to gain more than we give up.

updated March 5, 2025

Lent is the season of the Christian church year from Ash Wednesday to Easter. It is preceded by Fat Tuesday, better known as Mardi Gras.

During Lent, some people commit to fasting (refraining) from certain foods or drinks or giving up certain pleasurable activities or habits during the 40 days before Easter.

Some people choose to do something, like performing a service to others, doing a meditative or spiritual activity, or some repetitive action to remind them of the season.

In this article, Scott Hubbard explains how Protestants first rejected, but now embrace Lent and offers resources on observing Lent in a new way.

Join the 40-Day Feast

Consider the days ahead as an opportunity — as one more path you might walk to focus your scattered attention, warm your heart’s affections, and meet the risen Jesus afresh.

Scott Hubbard
Hans Urs von Balthasar, (1905-1988), Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and author
to the cross that the christian is challenged to follow his master. quote Hans Urs Von Balthasar
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40 Days of Decrease: A Different Kind of Hunger. A Different Kind of Fast.

by Alicia Britt Chole

What if you fasted regret? What if your friends fasted comparison? What if your generation fasted escapism? What if your community fasted spectatorship? Trigger a spiritual revolution with this daily devotional for Lent.

Decrease life’s unnecessary details and increase your relationship with the Lord so you can live in awe of Christ’s resurrection! 

40 Days of Decrease is a guide for those hungering for a fresh Lenten/Easter experience. Dr. Alicia Britt Chole guides you through a study of Jesus’ uncommon and uncomfortable call to abandon the world’s illusions, embrace His kingdom’s realities, and journey cross-ward and beyond.

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Dress yourselves in burlap and sit among the ashes. Mourn and weep bitterly..

Jeremiah 6:26, NLT

Try Dwell for Lent

Many people find using their phones a convenient way to read and meditate on the Bible. And it’s easy to do so with the Dwell Bible App.

With Dwell you can listen to and read the Bible and special devotional offerings for Advent, Lent, and throughout the year.

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Beyond Fasting

If we want to make the most of this annual opportunity (Lent), we’ll do more than just give something up.

We’ll silence ourselves before the Sovereign who became a servant. We’ll fasten our eyes upon him as he teaches and heals and smiles and weeps — the only upright man in a world of cracked and curved impostors

Scott Hubbard

Sing, make noise, and be thankful!

And consider another way to access the Bible- the Dwell app where you can read, listen, or both anytime, in multiple formats, with music or not. And this affiliate link helps support Watercress Words. I use Dwell and hope you will also.

 

A Psalm for giving thanks.

His Steadfast Love Endures Forever

Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth!

Serve the LORD with gladness!

Come into his presence with singing!

 Know that the LORD, he is God!

It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and  the sheep of his pasture.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise!

Give thanks to him; bless his name!

For the LORD is good,his steadfast love endures forever,

and his  faithfulness to all generations.

Psalm 100, English Standard Version (ESV) 

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

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photo of Sainte Anne’s Catholic Church on Mackinac Island, Michigan by Dr. Aletha

Tens of millions of people are using The Bible App-YouVersion to make God’s Word a part of their daily lives.

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Download the free app and access your bookmarks, notes, and reading plans from anywhere. Enjoy hundreds of versions, including audio, all on your mobile device.

I have the Bible App on my phone. Try it and let me know how you like it.

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And consider another way to access the Bible- the Dwell app where you can read, listen, or both anytime, in multiple formats, with music or not. And this affiliate link helps support Watercress Words. I use Dwell and hope you will also.