Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional
Overview
Journey through Lent with Best-Selling Author Paul David Tripp.
Lent is one of the most significant times of the yearly Christian calendar. It is often associated with solemn observation and preparation—mourning past and present sin and letting go of the worldly things that keep the heart from experiencing God more fully. In this 40-daily lenten devotional, best-selling author Paul David Tripp invites readers to set aside time from the busyness of their lives to focus on the suffering and sacrifice of Jesus. Each short reading encourages believers to abide in the abundant joy found in Christ, as they encounter the Savior more fully and follow him more faithfully.
- Includes 40 daily readings for the season of Lent
- Focuses on the suffering and sacrifice of Jesus
- Encourages believers to abide in the abundant joy found in Christ
Top Highlights
“Here’s how the Bible defines idolatry: an idol is any person, place, or thing that exercises control over the thoughts and desires of your heart that only God should have.” (Page 90)
“Lent is about remembering the suffering and sacrifice of the Savior. Lent is about confessing our ongoing battle with sin. Lent is about fasting, and not just from food; we willingly and joyfully let go of things in this world that have too much of a hold on us. And Lent is about giving ourselves in a more focused way to prayer, crying out for the help that we desperately need from the only one who is able to give it.” (Page 9)
“Mourning means you recognize the most important reality in the human existence, sin. Mourning means you have been hit by the weight of what it has done to you and to everyone you know. Mourning says you have considered the devastating fact that life right here, right now, is one big spiritual war. Mourning means that you have come to realize, as you get up in the morning, that once again you will be greeted with a catalog of temptations. Mourning means you know that there really are spiritual enemies out there meaning to do you harm. Mourning results when you confess that there are places where your heart still wanders.” (Page 8)
“Looking to creation to do what it was not meant to do will not only disappoint us; it will enslave us. Idols never just disappoint us; they addict us as well.” (Page 31)
“The cross of Jesus Christ not only does the first two things for us (forgiveness and reconciliation), but it also does the third thing for us (change).” (Page 68)
- Title: Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional
- Author: Paul Tripp
- Publisher: Crossway
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Pages: 235
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Lent › Prayers and devotions
- ISBNs: 9781433567674, 9781433567704, 9781433567681, 9781433567698, 1433567679, 1433567709, 1433567687, 1433567695
- Resource ID: LLS:JOURNEYTOCROSS
- Resource Type: text.monograph.devotional
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:55:13Z
Paul David Tripp is a pastor, author, and international conference speaker. He is the president of Paul Tripp Ministries and works to connect the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life. This vision has led Paul to write 14 books on Christian living and travel around the world preaching and teaching. Paul's driving passion is to help people understand how the gospel of Jesus Christ speaks with practical hope into all the things people face in this broken world.
