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We are excited to introduce our latest Lent study for Year A of the Lectionary! Based on the same style as last year, in this book are a pair of reflections for each of six passages of scripture.  Sarah’s art and Gareth’s text are an invitation to engage in your own reflection.

The reflections we offer here are intended as the material for a group study over the six weeks of Lent.  However, this is your book, and you can use it in the way that makes the most sense for you. The passages from the Bible are those set down as the Gospel reading for the Sundays for Year A during Lent in the Revised Common Lectionary.

Just one of the beautiful images from the study by Sarah West.

To be clear, Gareth’s text doesn’t describe Sarah’s art and Sarah’s art is not illustrating Gareth’s text.  We hope that you will have conversations that draw from all these sources.  Our prayer is that as we read and wrestle with scripture together, the Holy Spirit will guide your conversation and reveal God’s Living Word in Christ to you.

There are some questions for discussion provided with each chapter but if you don’t need these prompts to get conversation going, there is no need to use them.  Likewise, short prayers are offered to open and close but this is entirely optional.

Here is a small excerpt from one of the studies:

Perhaps the Church is a woman with six husbands.  Perhaps we’re surprised that Jesus knows this about us.  We’re supposed to be Jesus’ bride; how has he found out about our divided loyalties?  None of our six husbands are supposed to be our husband and we’re a little embarrassed when Jesus refers to them as such.