Reflections on Lent, meditations on Holy Week, and celebrating Easter.
Illustrations by Keith Negley
The days resulting in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (the Lenten season) are a pair of of a really significant of the three hundred and sixty five days for loads of Christians in a diversity of theological traditions. Whereas the Advent season is famed as a time of delighted anticipation, Lent is historically practiced with a sense of sober observance, characterised by repentance, self-denial, and an awareness of our corrupt humanity that ended in Christ’s atonement of our sins. While it’s appropriate and moral for Christians to enter trusty into a time of somber reflection as we see to the Nasty, we don’t are making an strive to neglect that right here is a avenue with a delighted conclusion—the resurrection of Christ.
For this Easter and Lenten season, we can delivery a hurry down The Avenue to Joy.
The imagery of a avenue can evoke visions of sun-drenched stretches throughout the barren spot, tree-lined paths throughout the woods, or lonely highways traveling throughout the heart of nowhere. As we hurry onward, we’re met with loads of challenges as we assemble nearer to our desired skedaddle field, but we press on courageously, convinced that this can were price it after we attain the kill.
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In many ways, this echoes our salvation reports, where we journey the sobering but sanctifying actuality of Christ’s demise in our lives while never losing scrutinize of the hopeful joy that his resurrecting energy provides as we design nearer to him, our desired skedaddle field. I pray that as you utilize time finding out and meditating on these hopeful reflections, your coronary heart will doubtless be freshly renewed as you be conscious the one who continued the Nasty, for the joy that used to be living sooner than him.
Ronnie Martin is Director of Leader Care & Renewal for Harbor Community, and Pastor-In-Location at Redeemer Community Church in Bloomington, IN. He has written various books, along with In the Morning You Hear My Dispute (B&H, 2025), and co-hosts The Heart of Pastoring podcast with Jared C. Wilson.
For this Easter and Lenten season, we can delivery a hurry toward joy. While it’s appropriate and moral for Christians to enter trusty into a time of somber reflection as we see to the Nasty, we don’t are making an strive to neglect that right here is a avenue with a delighted conclusion—the resurrection of Christ.
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