Lent for Everyone: Matthew Year A
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Overview
This book gently takes the reader through the designated lectionary readings for every day of Lent and Easter. Each Bible reading is followed by a reflection and prayer that will help the readers ponder the relevance of Matthew’s Gospel for their own lives.
Suitable for both individual and group study and reflection, Lent for Everyone: Matthew Year A will allow readers to make Matthew’s Gospel their own, thoughtfully and prayerfully, through the Lenten season.
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Key Features
- Provides a reading for each day of Lent from N.T. Wright’s For Everyone Bible translation
- Includes reflections and prayers for each day
- Presents a format suited to group or individual study
Top Highlights
“The most important Christians are not the ones who preach great sermons and write great books, but the ones who pray, and pray, and pray some more, sharing the quiet but effective victory of Jesus over all that defaces God’s creation.” (Page 67)
“Lent is a time for discipline, for confession, for honesty, not because God is mean or faultfinding or finger-pointing but because he wants us to know the joy of being cleaned out, ready for all the good things he now has in store.” (Page 13)
“Something deeper and darker was afoot. Behind all the outward trappings of the Temple, Jesus could see that the whole place, and the whole city, had come to symbolize the determination of Israel to do things their own way; in particular, to embrace a vision of God and God’s kingdom which was fundamentally different from the vision which he was announcing and living out. Their vision would have climaxed in a Messiah coming on a war-horse. Jesus’ vision led him to act out the prophecy of Zechariah: your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey. This simple yet profound symbolic action continues to resonate out into the world where, even among people who profess to follow Jesus, the war-horse is still preferred to the donkey.” (Page 83)
“Worship, then, is about contemplating who God is and what he’s done, standing in awe and expressing that awe in thanks and praise.” (Page 52)
“What should the church be doing today that would make people realize that ‘heaven’ is actually in charge here and now?” (Page 8)
Praise for the Print Edition
The trouble is that it is so good that the reader will find it hard to stop at the end of each day’s reflection, but will want to read on.
—The Church Times
- Title: Lent for Everyone: Matthew Year A
- Author: N. T. Wright
- Publisher: SPCK
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 144
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. N.T. Matthew › Meditations; Holy Week › Prayers and devotions--English; Lent › Prayers and devotions--English
- Resource ID: LLS:LENTMATTA
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:12:23Z
Nicholas Thomas “Tom” Wright (1948–) is a New Testament scholar, Pauline theologian, and Anglican bishop and currently Research Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christianity at St. Mary's College in the University of St Andrews and Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Christianity Today named him one of today's top theologians.
Wright was born in Morpeth, Northumberland, and recounts an awareness of God's presence from a young age—and that relationship with God ever since is reflected in his life and work. He's a prolific author; one of his most popular books, Surprised by Hope, frames the resurrection of the dead as the appropriate hope for all believers rather than an overemphasis on just "going to heaven when you die." He's among the leading theologians in the New Perspective on Paul debate. Wright has several honorary doctoral degrees, and in 2014, the British Academy awarded him the Burkitt Medal "in recognition of special service to biblical studies." In 2015, he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Wright served as chaplain at Cambridge from 1978 to 1981, then as assistant professor of New Testament language and literature at McGill University in Montreal. Before becoming a chaplain, tutor, lecturer, and fellow at Oxford in 1986, Wright served as dean of Lichfield Cathedral, canon theologian of Westminster Abbey, and the bishop of Durham from 2003–10. In addition to the entire New Testament for Everyone Series, some of N. T. Wright's books include The New Testament in Its World: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians, Who Was Jesus, The New Testament and the People of God, God and the Pandemic, Evil and the Justice of God, Surprised by Hope, and Simply Christian. He coauthored Jesus the Final Days with Craig A. Evans.
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