Lenten Resources to Enrich Your Journey
Lent 2024 is the forty day season of the church year leading up to Easter. Beginning with Ash Wednesday (February 14), followers of Jesus use this time of preparation to pray, repent, worship, serve, and reflect on all that Christ has done on our behalf. Lent concludes with Palm Sunday and our Holy Week Observances (March 24 to 31). Easter joy and victory are ours because of Jesus’ life and suffering, death and resurrection on our behalf. We pray that the resources found on this page will enrich your Lenten journey.
Read Today’s Lent 2024 Devotion.
Lamb of God — Daily Devotions from Lutheran Hour Ministries will help strengthen and encourage your faith as you do the same for others. https://www.lhm.org/lent/
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Cut out a shape each day of Lent to remind you of the many people and stories of Scripture. “For God so loved…” the Bible tells us. For God so loved, God sent us Jesus, a living, loving, dying, rising example of this great love for us. Each day highlights God’s great love that’s been given to us in the person of Jesus and shown to us through Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. It is a love that we, as Jesus followers, are called to share to all the world through our words and actions during the season of Lent and throughout our lives.
Be Gracious to Me centers around Psalm 41 where God’s grace wells up and King David exults God, tracing the flow of divine grace from the source to its believers. He watches the current flow and spring forth in the lives of all believers through Baptism. Discover how Christ’s sufferings are your sufferings, and more importantly, how David’s words in Psalm 41 have become your reality through Christ. In the day of trouble, the Lord delivers you. The Lord protects you and keeps you alive. You are called blessed in the land!
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Lent 2024 Worship Series
Be Gracious To Me!
Join Us for Worship and More, Each Wednesday of Lent!
The 2024 Lenten Journey begins on Ash Wednesday, February 14, with services at Noon and 7:00 pm. (Meals will be served prior to these services.) During the 40-day season of Lent, Wednesday services will be held on February 14, 21, 28, March 6, 13, and 20.
Supper will be offered prior to the 7:00 pm services, beginning at 5:30 pm. Members may also choose to join Martin Luther School for the Noon Lenten services on these same six Wednesdays.
- Ash Wednesday, February 14: “Mutual Consideration—Psalm 41:1-2”
- Midweek of Lent 1, February 21: “Sustained in Sickness—Psalm 41:3”
- Midweek of Lent 2, February 28: “I Have Sinned—Psalm 41:4”
- Midweek of Lent 3, March 6: “Soon and Never—Psalm 41:5”
- Midweek of Lent 4, March 13: “Empty Words—Psalm 41:6”
- Midweek of Lent 5, March 20: “Vindication—Psalm 41:7-8”
- Palm Sunday, March 24:
- Maundy (Holy) Thursday, March 28: “My Close Friend—Psalm 41:9”
- Good Friday, March 29: “Be Gracious To Me!—Psalm 41:10”
- The Vigil of Easter, March 30: “Contradiction—Psalm 41:11”
- The Resurrection of Our Lord, March 31: “Because of My Integrity—Psalm 41:12-13”
PSALM 41
English Standard Version (ESV)
Blessed is the one who considers the poor!
In the day of trouble the Lord delivers him;
2 the Lord protects him and keeps him alive;
he is called blessed in the land;
you do not give him up to the will of his enemies.
3 The Lord sustains him on his sickbed;
in his illness you restore him to full health.
4 As for me, I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me;
heal me, for I have sinned against you!”
5 My enemies say of me in malice,
“When will he die, and his name perish?”
6 And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words,
while his heart gathers iniquity;
when he goes out, he tells it abroad.
7 All who hate me whisper together about me;
they imagine the worst for me.
8 They say, “A deadly thing is poured out on him;
he will not rise again from where he lies.”
9 Even my close friend in whom I trusted,
who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
10 But you, O Lord, be gracious to me,
and raise me up, that I may repay them!
11 By this I know that you delight in me:
my enemy will not shout in triumph over me.
12 But you have upheld me because of my integrity,
and set me in your presence forever.
13 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting!
Amen and Amen.