Lenten season resource recommendations from College Ministries

The 40-day Lenten season has been a staple of Christian discipline since the earliest days of the church. Leading into Easter, Lent is a time when Christians examine their own lives and often sacrifice something meaningful (often desirable foods like chocolate) in remembrance of the sacrifice that Jesus made on the cross. For this coming season of Lent, The Bridge Online asked the pastors at College Ministries -- Eldon Fry, Evie Telfer, Brian Smith, and Doug Curry -- to recommend resources for deepening your experience of this ancient Christian tradition.

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Books

• Show Me the Way: Readings for Each Day of Lent by Henri J. M. Nouwen
• Living the Days of Lent 2006 by Anita M. Constance (editor)
• Not by Bread Alone: Daily Reflections for Lent 2006 by Angela Ashwin
• Cross of Death, Tree of Life by Jerome Machar, O.C.S.O.
• The Inner Life by Thomas a Kempis
• Lent and Easter Wisdom from Pope John Paul II
• Lent and Easter by Fulton J. Sheen
• Wisdom Distilled from the Daily by Joan Chittister
• With Open Hands by Henri Nouwen
• A Covenant to Keep: Meditations on the Biblical Theme of Justice by James Skillen
• Eugene Peterson Bible studies:
  • A Long Obedience in the Same Direction
  • Run with the Horses
  • Under the Unpredictable Plant
• Books by Gary Thomas:
  • Seeking the Face of God
  • Sacred Pathways
• Space for God by Don Postema
• Soul Feast by Marjorie Thompson
• Enjoying the Presence of God by Jan Johnson
• Portrait of Jesus by Michael Cosby
• Christ-Following: Ten Signposts to Spirituality by Trevor Hudson
• Compilations
  • Prayer for Each Day
  • Sing! A New Creation
  • Sing Glory
  • The Worship Sourcebook

Movies

• The End of the Spear
• The Mission
• The Passion of the Christ
• Enchanted April
• Bon Voyage
• Sometimes in April
• Shine
• My Left Foot
• The Third Miracle
• The Apostle
• Life as a House
• Breaking the Waves

Websites

• Catholic Relief Services (especially "the rice bowl")
• Synod Resource Center (Lutheran)
• Upper Room (Interdenominational)

  Most denominations have some resource center with guides and books

Music

• Passiontide at St. Paul's (a sequence of music for Lent, Passiontide, and Easter)

  Jonathan Arnold and Timothy Jones

• Lent on Mount of Olives

  Anonymous, but in Gregorian Chant

• The Cup of Life

  produced by Paul Mills and featuring Tony Melendez and Jim Cowan

• John Michael Talbot