Live Lent

Helps you celebrate Lent and Easter as a family with a collection of daily actions, activities, recipes and prayers, as well as 40 simple actions to do throughout Lent - for both adults and kids.

ion (Text)#LiveLent: God’s Story, Our Story invites each of us to reflect on our own story of God and how we might share it through our everyday lives as part of our Christian witness. It encourages us to take a fresh look at evangelism, exploring how Jesus and his first followers communicated the good news of God’s love by inviting, listening and responding creatively to others. For each of the 40 days of Lent, this booklet includes a short Bible passage, a reflection and a prayer. The daily reflections follow weekly themes – each with an accompanying action – drawn from the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book 2021, Living His Story: Sharing the extraordinary love of God in ordinary ways by Hannah Steele (SPCK). #LiveLent: God’s Story, Our Story is the Church of England’s Lent campaign for 2021. This booklet is part of a wide range of resources for individuals, groups and churches available via www.churchofengland.org/livelent

God has given us a wonderful world to enjoy, but also to protect. #LiveLent: Care for God's Creation will help children and their families learn more about the amazing gift of God's creation and how we can care for it better. For the 40 days of Lent there is a daily challenge to help you honour and treasure the earth, plus weekly short prayers and Bible readings on creation themes. Find out about all the ways you can be involved in the #LiveLent challenge, including booklets for adults, all-age activities and ideas for churches at www.churchofengland.org/livelent #LiveLent: Care for God's Creation is the Church of England's Lent Campaign for 2020. It has been inspired and informed by the Archbishop of Canterbury's 2020 Lent Book, Saying Yes to Life by Ruth Valerio (SPCK).

Live Lent: Let Your Light Shine takes you on a six-week discipleship journey through the Gospel of John, exploring what it means to be a witness to the Christian faith. For each day from Ash Wednesday to Easter Day there is a short Bible reading, a pause for reflection and prayer, and an idea for a simple action that will enable the light of Jesus to shine through your life. Live Lent: Let Your Light Shine is written in association with Thy Kingdom Come, the global prayer movement that invites Christians around the world to pray for more people to come to know Jesus. This is a shrink-wrapped pack of 10 copies.

God has given us a wonderful world to enjoy, but also to protect. #LiveLent: Care for God's Creation will help children and their families learn more about the amazing gift of God's creation and how we can care for it better. For the 40 days of Lent there is a daily challenge to help you honour and treasure the earth, plus weekly short prayers and Bible readings on creation themes. Find out about all the ways you can be involved in the #LiveLent challenge, including booklets for adults, all-age activities and ideas for churches at www.churchofengland.org/livelent #LiveLent: Care for God's Creation is the Church of England's Lent Campaign for 2020. It has been inspired and informed by the Archbishop of Canterbury's 2020 Lent Book, Saying Yes to Life by Ruth Valerio (SPCK).

During Lent, the Church invites us to reflect on those times that we have turned away from God and consider how we can return to him in all we say and do. Living Your Baptism in Lent: Weekly Reflections for Your Journey helps readers respond to this invitation by reflecting on their relationship with God. Through the grace of our Baptism, we have become sons and daughters of God. As such, we are strengthened by the Holy Spirit to reject sin and choose instead to follow God. Each week, readers consider this choice as they reflect on the questions asked before Baptism. These questions, or baptismal promises, shape our understanding of what it means to live a Christian life. They call us to become witnesses of our faith to others, especially to those who are preparing to be baptized at the Easter Vigil. Our Lenten journey leads us to the celebration of Easter, where we renew our baptismal promises and rejoice in the salvation gained for us by Christ’s Resurrection. Each week’s reflection ends with questions and Scripture passages to use in individual prayer. A guide for leading small groups in these reflections is also included.

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