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Lent Roll - Week 8, MON

"Christ is my center but ... my boundaries are permeable."
Kimberly Knight

Matthew 28:16-20 (The phrase “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations” might lead to many understandings of the word “nations” for Biblical times and today, but “Go” seems absolutely unambiguous)

 

Lent Roll - Week 8, SUN

“If it is an error for some Christians to make relative what God has made absolute, it is equally an error to make absolute what God has left relative."
Os Guinness

John 20:1-18 (“They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him”)

 

Lent Roll - Week 7, SAT

"Consequences. Do we still believe in consequences? No matter; they still believe in us."
-Greg

Mark 15:25-47 (Darkness at noon, torn curtain in the temple, stone blockade)

 

Lent Roll - Week 7, FRI

"Often, when someone dies, we feel a combination of love and something else, and this, too, is holy. And entirely human. And they don’t cancel each other out. Love and anger. Love and disappointment. Love and emptiness. We always love imperfectly. It is the nature of human love. And it is okay. But despite all the love in the world, when it comes down to it, none of us can know the reality of another."
Nadia Bolz-Weber

John 19:1-37 (when Jesus had received the wine, he said, “It is finished”)

 

Lent Roll - Week 7, THU

"Lord, please shine a light of hope on those of us who fall behind. And when we stumble in the snow, could you help us up while there's still time?" 
Stephanie Davis

Luke 23:39-43 (“Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom”)

 

Lent Roll - Week 7, WED

"My prosecuting room still holds a strand of her hair in evidence."
Al Stewart

Matthew 27:11-26 (warned about his wife’s dream and seeing there was nothing he else he could do, Pilate washed his hands of accountability for the fate facing Jesus)

 

Lent Roll - Week 7, TUE

“Yes, a man is a dangerous thing. So is a scalpel. It can wound or it can save your life. You don't make it safe by making it dull; you put it in the hands of someone who knows what he's doing.”
John Eldredge

John 18:1-11 (Jesus told Peter to put away his sword, and we should understand that having a weapon does not mandate using it … as opposed to turning the other cheek and leaving fate in God’s hands – the cup the Father has given)