The Sinner/Saint Lenten Devotional

By Kyle G Jones, Kathryn Strauch and Daniel Emery Price

During the forty days of Lent, we explore the gift of repentance that turns us back to Christ and his finished work. There is no repentance apart from Christ. There is no Lent apart from Christ's suffering on our behalf. There is no hope apart from his righteousness gifted to us. All of these daily devotions are written with these great trut

• Language: English
• Publisher: 1517 Publishing
• Release date: Jan 7, 2019
• ISBN: 9781948969147

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The Sinner/Saint Lenten Devotional

© 2019 Kyle G. Jones

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Names: Jones, Kyle G., author. | Strauch, Kathryn, author. | Price, Daniel Emery, writer of supplementary textual content.

Title: The sinner/saint Lenten devotional / by Kyle G. Jones and Kathryn Strauch ; foreword by Daniel Emery Price.

Other Titles: Sinner saint Lenten devotional

Description: Irvine, CA : 1517 Publishing, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: ISBN 9781948969130 (softcover) | ISBN 9781948969147 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Lent--Prayers and devotions. | Lutheran Church--Prayers and devotions. | Bible--Meditations. | Devotional exercises.

Classification: LCC BX8067.L5 J66 2019 (print) | LCC BX8067.L5 (ebook) | DDC 242/.34--dc23

Cover art by Brenton Clarke Little.

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Contents

Foreword by: Daniel Emery Price

WEEK OF ASH WEDNESDAY

Marked | Ash Wednesday

Meeting Jesus in the Water | Thursday after Ash Wednesday

The Watery Grave | Friday after Ash Wednesday

The Master Artist | Saturday after Ash Wednesday

FIRST WEEK OF LENT

The God Who Sees | First Sunday in Lent

Divine Servant | Monday of the First Week of Lent

Dying of Thirst | Tuesday of the First Week of Lent

A Tale of Two Prayers | Wednesday of the First Week of Lent

Delivered into Evil? | Thursday of the First Week of Lent

Jesus’s Devotion | Friday of the First Week of Lent

Buried Treasure | Saturday of the First Week of Lent

SECOND WEEK OF LENT

Jesus Doesn’t Give out Clean Slates | Second Sunday in Lent

The Great Hide and Seek | Monday of the Second Week of Lent

For Our Benefit | Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent

The Perfect Neighbor | Wednesday of the Second Week of Lent

Scripture Speaks with an Accent | Thursday of the Second Week of Lent

Carried to the Table of the King | Friday of the Second Week of Lent

The Lord Who Remembers Not | Saturday of the Second Week of Lent

THIRD WEEK OF LENT

Anointed | Third Sunday in Lent

Crowned | Monday of the Third Week of Lent

Life in the Blood | Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent

Our Scapegoat | Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent

Our Judgment | Thursday of the Third Week of Lent

Our Gracious Gardener | Friday of the Third Week of Lent

Named | Saturday of the Third Week of Lent

FOURTH WEEK OF LENT

From Adored to Abhorred | Fourth Sunday in Lent

The Ultimate Rejection | Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent

The New and Better Jonah | Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent

The Extraordinary for the Ordinary | Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent

A Fiery Exchange | Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Our Great Worship Leader | Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Our Silent Defense and Bloody Apology | Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent

FIFTH WEEK OF LENT

Prove It | Fifth Sunday in Lent

The Greater David | Monday of the Fifth Week in Lent

Remembering to Forget | Tuesday of the Fifth Week in Lent

Behold the Light of the World | Wednesday of the Fifth Week in Lent

Climbing Trees with Jesus | Thursday of the Fifth Week in Lent

A Defeated God | Friday of the Fifth Week in Lent

Wearing Jesus’s Wounds | Saturday of the Fifth Week in Lent

HOLY WEEK

A Foal for a Steed | Palm Sunday

The Holy Coal | Monday of Holy Week

A King for a Criminal | Tuesday of Holy Week

Pilate’s Baptism | Wednesday of Holy Week

Jesus’s Most Important Words | Maundy Thursday

Answer Me | Good Friday

Exchanging Graves | Holy Saturday

Foreword

Properly speaking, repentance consists of two parts: One part is contrition, or the terrors that strike the conscience through knowledge of sin. The other part is faith, which is born of the Gospel, or the Absolution, and believes that for Christ’s sake, sins are forgiven.

The Augsburg Confession, 1530

I once saw a man holding a sign that read:

Divorce is an abomination. Repent!

That’s it. Nothing else. Nothing about forgiveness. Nothing about God. Nothing about Christ or His blood-soaked cross and empty tomb. I couldn’t help but approach the man and ask him one question.

Repent to what?

He didn’t answer. In fact, he wouldn’t even look at me. I asked the question again . . . still nothing. So I told him about all that Christ had done for a world of wretched sinners, and I asked him to consider adding some good news to his sign if he was dead set on holding one. Sadly, he never spoke to me. Never even looked at me. But he certainly heard me.

Repentance is a word we use a lot in Christianity. All of the Old Testament Prophets said to repent. John the Baptist said to repent. Jesus said to repent. The Apostles said to repent. Repentance is a big deal. Understandably, we feel the pressure to get this right—but far too often we get it wrong.

Because the Church is made up of sinners, we