Lent at LNPC:
"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid."
John 14:27
Our hearts are often troubled. And they're often afraid.
The hearts of all who share this life with us
are often troubled and often afraid.
This Lent we lift our troubled and fearful hearts up to God.
We open our hearts to the peace that Jesus brings - peace to, in, despite, and through us.
This Lent, we we hold up others' troubled and fearful hearts.
And we pray for peace to, in, despite, and through them.
Here are our hearts.
Bring your peace, Lord Jesus.
Bring your peace.
John 14:27
Our hearts are often troubled. And they're often afraid.
The hearts of all who share this life with us
are often troubled and often afraid.
This Lent we lift our troubled and fearful hearts up to God.
We open our hearts to the peace that Jesus brings - peace to, in, despite, and through us.
This Lent, we we hold up others' troubled and fearful hearts.
And we pray for peace to, in, despite, and through them.
Here are our hearts.
Bring your peace, Lord Jesus.
Bring your peace.
What is Lent?
Lent is the period of 40 days, (minus Sundays), beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending the Saturday before Easter.
Forty days mirrors Jesus' 40 days in the wilderness, and it does not include Sundays because they are considered 'mini-Easters' - celebrations of the resurrection every week. In the early church, Lent was a time to prepare new converts for baptism.
Lent Today
All around the world, Christians practice Lent as a time of self-reflection, repentance and fasting. The focus is on their relationship with God, often choosing to give up something or to volunteer and give of themselves for others.
Lent at LNPC: "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Do not let them be afraid."
This Lent we will be spending the season holding our own hearts and others' before God and praying for peace. We will carry with us throughout the week a heart that we receive each Sunday, holding a different person, group, or need of our country in prayer.
Throughout Lent we will be creating an art piece with our hearts and those we carry.
Lent is the period of 40 days, (minus Sundays), beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending the Saturday before Easter.
Forty days mirrors Jesus' 40 days in the wilderness, and it does not include Sundays because they are considered 'mini-Easters' - celebrations of the resurrection every week. In the early church, Lent was a time to prepare new converts for baptism.
Lent Today
All around the world, Christians practice Lent as a time of self-reflection, repentance and fasting. The focus is on their relationship with God, often choosing to give up something or to volunteer and give of themselves for others.
Lent at LNPC: "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Do not let them be afraid."
This Lent we will be spending the season holding our own hearts and others' before God and praying for peace. We will carry with us throughout the week a heart that we receive each Sunday, holding a different person, group, or need of our country in prayer.
Throughout Lent we will be creating an art piece with our hearts and those we carry.
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LENTEN BOOK STUDY/DAILY DEVOTIONAL
For the 40 days of Lent, we will be drawing from Walter Brueggemann's Daily Lenten Devotional, A Way Other Than Our Own. If you'd like to try out a daily reading/prayer practice, pick one up from Amazon or elsewhere for $11, or you can grab one of the 10 copies already at church (pay what you can). Adult Ed will be discussing it each Sunday before worship at 9 am, and it will show up now and then in sermons.
SCHEDULE OF GATHERINGS & EVENTS
ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICE
Wednesday, February 14, 2018, 6:00 pm Followed by WATERCOLOR & HEALING workshop, 6:45 pm Childcare available for little ones -older kids join in! 
LENTEN EVENING PRAYER
2nd & 4th Saturdays in Lent, 5:00 pm February 24 & March 10 A quiet service of reflection and personal prayer stations for all ages. Find out more. 
PRAYER FOR THE NATION
Friday mornings of Lent February 16, 23, 30, March 2, 9, 16 9:30 - 10 am Holy Week with LNPC
PALM SUNDAY WORSHIP,
Sunday, March 25, 10:30 am Adult Ed & Sunday school, 9 am 
GOOD FRIDAY TENEBRAE SERVICE
Friday, March 30, 6:30 pm LNPC's traditional Tenebrae service with communion, contrasting the seven last words of Christ with the seven words of creation. 
EASTER CELEBRATION OF THE RESURRECTION,
Sunday, April 1, 10:30 am Continental Breakfast and kids egg hunt at 9:30 am |
RESOURCES FOR ENTERING INTO LENT
Daily Online Lent Reading & Meditation
Subscribe to receive a daily email with a short meditation, guiding you through a reading and reflection for each day of Lent. Photo-a-Day Challenge - BustedHalo
Lent is a great time to notice and be present. If you'd like a practice of noticing and sharing, why not a photo-a-day challenge?
Printable Lent Family Journal
Wonderful weekly family experiences to engage Lent in creative and practical ways. From flamecreativekids.blogspot.co.uk Extensive Collection of Lenten Resources
TONS of resources- links to terrific online daily devotionals, art & faith experiences, video clips, articles, prayers and more. (from Ignatian Spirituality) 40 Days Toward Love
A family or individual prayer practice with lots of action ideas - drawing from LNPC's Prayer for the Nation practice. (We will be doing a version of this during Lent that lets you pray for one person/need per week, but if you'd like a daily practice, or a complete set of 80 prayer hearts, this is a great resource) OTHER LENTEN GATHERINGS
Sabbath House: Soup & Sabbath (for Lent) Monday nights of Lent 6:30 p.m. Simple Soup 7-8 p.m. Presentation and Refection 3228 Portland Ave |
