The season of Lent is a time of prayer and contemplation in preparation for the celebration of the resurrection of the Lord at Easter. This year a special Lenten Devotional 2020 has been written by the members of Westminster Presbyterian Church. You can read the daily devotions below. Or, download a printable PDF of the complete Lenten Devotional booklet.
Scripture: Meditation: Sabbath settles on Jerusalem Like a dove, Gliding on silent wings. Sabbath settles in my heart, A lover with open arms, Embracing my soul with song, Wrapped in quiet breathing. I send blessings into the world. Light. Bread. Prayers of peace (adapted from “Shabbat Settles on Jerusalem” by Alden Solovy in This Grateful Heart, 2017) PRAYER: O God, you give a peace that passes all…
When the Lord your God has brought you into the land that he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—a land with fine, large cities that you did not build, houses filled with all sorts of goods that you did not fill, hewn cisterns that you did not hew, vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you have eaten your fill, take care that you do not for…
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. – Matthew 6:19-21 We all know what our faith tells us about service…Love our neighbor, what you…
Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake their way, and the unrighteous their thoughts; let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher…
