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Each of these meditations were written for use in Lent.

Their main focus is on "Why the Cross?"  but the last 'week' focuses on Jesus words on the Cross.

To go to the Meditation, click on the appropriate number below.

    

If you wish to use these meditations before Easter, following them through to Easter Sunday,

please start the Prologue on Shrove Tuesday.

      

   

Contents

      

Failure to Appreciate God
Death brings perspective
Failing to be good

3

Our deceitful heart

4

Nothing outside of Christ

5

I'm a Sinner?

6

The reality of sin in me

7

Clueless, godless & worthless!

8

A false security

9

Turning to our own resources

10

Turning to superstition

11

Turning to rule-keeping

12

Preferring to walk by sight

13

Planned before the world began

14

God's Preplanned Salvation

15

God's Sovereign Foreknowledge

16

The Son - comes at the right time

17

The Son  - working to a Schedule

18

The Son - exalted but disfigured

19

The Son - a man of sorrows

20

The Son - a carrier of our infirmities?

21

The Son - pierced and crushed

22

Us - wandering sheep?

23

The Son - oppressed and afflicted

24

The Son - the triumphant Lamb

25

Us - redeemed from an empty life

26

Blessings & Curses

27

Us - our Freedom Bought

28

Redemption & Forgiveness

29

Repentance opens the door

30

God's revulsion at my sin

31

God's hatred of sin

32

Us - blind to the truth?

33

God has no pleasure in our death

34

Cross-centred salvation

35

Us - reconciled to God

36

The Son - Jesus the substitute

37

The Son - the lamb without defect

38

The Son - creates access to God

39

Us - put right with God

40

Surface Praise

41

Sinful Ignorance

42

Death-Bed Confessions

43

Caring - Part 3!

44

The Sin Bearer Crushed

45

The Sin Bearer Exhausted

46

The Task Completed

47

The Father's Will Completed

     

 

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