Good News Ministries at 1511 Carter Oaks Drive, Valrico, FL 33594 US - Lenten Bible Study
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Lenten Bible Study
Your Journey to Calvary and Easter by Terry Modica |
This Lent is like no other Lent. Last year, you had different needs, different areas of growth, different levels of insight and understanding. Much has happened since then, all of it a preparation for what the Lord is going to do in your life now. What victory do you need this year? What needs to be resurrected? To get there, the path will lead through the cross, into the tomb, and out where God's light and love provide healing and new life. During Lent - or whenever we make sacrifices and connect our sufferings to the Passion of Christ - we journey with Jesus, intimately, all they way to the cross and resurrection. Being intimate with Jesus requires embracing our own crosses. And it always leads to new life. If we want Easter this year to be more than just a holiday of pretty eggs, chocolate bunnies and big dinners, we have to make Lent more than just 40 days of enduring an annoying sacrifice, eating meatless pizza on Fridays, and going to an occasional extra event at church. If we want to experience the power of resurrection, we have to experience the power of mourning and repenting from our sinfulness. In other words, we have to experience the powerlessness of death - the death of our selfishness, the death of our worldliness, the death of our behaviors that are not Christ-like.