Lent

In a new video available online for viewing and sharing, LCMS President Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison offers a blessing and encourages the church to pray the Litany during this Lenten season. “Prayer is a great blessing,” Harrison says in the…

As Lent begins, LCMS President Rev. Matthew C. Harrison invites the church to join him in praying “The Litany,” profound words long prayed by Christians in times of need. “Lent is a time for serious repentance, a time to get…

“Words of Life from the Cross,” the new Lent-Easter worship and preaching resource from Concordia Publishing House, invites the entire congregation to study Jesus’ final words on the cross as He offered up His life for the life of the…

Concordia Publishing House and Lutheran Hour Ministries are offering new resources for Lent, which began Feb. 25. CPH has launched a special Web site at www.cph.org/40days that features Lent and Easter online resources, including free daily meditations from the publisher’s…

Concordia Publishing House has released a Lenten resource for congregations based on the hymn “O Sacred Head, Now Wounded.”  The series draws its themes from the wounds of Jesus Christ and applies them to today’s Christian life.  “For many Christians,…

Lutheran Hour Ministries (LHM) is offering free daily devotions for the Lenten season.  Titled Time for Renewal, they were written by Rev. Doug Nicely, chaplain at Memorial Hospital in Belleville, Ill. The devotions will be available — beginning on Ash…

Some 40 students from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, contributed to this year’s 2005 Joint Seminary Devotional, which was released Ash Wednesday, Feb. 9. The devotional contains a listing of Scripture readings for each day of…