Living Loved Lenten experience

“The resurrection is the empty tomb that holds every hope we have ever known.” An excerpt from Loved to Life Transcript This is your deepest assurance that you are Loved to Life. Day 40: The Moment Everything Changes Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. So she came running...

“On the days when it all feels too much — that’s exactly when God is doing much more than you could ever imagine.” An excerpt from Loved to Life Transcript This is your deepest assurance that you are Loved to Life. Day 39: Salvation Saturday Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jewish...

“Christ dies of a broken heart so you can fully live with a whole one.” An excerpt from Loved to Life Transcript This is your deepest assurance that you are Loved to Life. Day 38: Pierced After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.” A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch an...

“Jesus bears his cross for you, but is is you He is carrying.” An excerpt from Loved to Life Transcript This is your deepest assurance that you are Loved to Life. Day 37: The Revolutionary Center So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, on...

Look into the face of your Love, who came to die, to love you to the only life that fulfills. An excerpt from Loved to Life Transcript This is your deepest assurance that you are Loved to Life. Day 36: Where Are You From? Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe and went up to him again and...

“God only calls you to love Him with your whole heart because He knows anything you love more than Him will eventually break your heart in half.” An excerpt from Loved to Life Transcript This is your deepest assurance that you are Loved to Life. Day 35: The King of Your Heart So Pilate came out to them and asked, “What charges are you bringing against this man?” “If he were not a crimi...

“The most transformational life is a long repentance in His direction.” An excerpt from Loved to Life Transcript This is your deepest assurance that you are Loved to Life. Day 34: Hope After a Broken Word “You aren’t one of this man’s disciples too, are you?” she asked Peter. He replied, “I am not.” . . . Meanwhile, Simon Peter was still standing there warming himself. So they asked hi...

“The greatest love story is not just a story; this is actual history.” An excerpt from Loved to Life Transcript This is your deepest assurance that you are Loved to Life. Day 33: Forever Bound to You Then the detachment of soldiers with its commander and the Jewish officials arrested Jesus. They bound him and brought him first to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high p...

“The passion of the Lamb of God moved Him to pass through the bloodstained valley for you. Covenant kept. Lamb laid down. Passion poured out. So we could be loved to life.” An excerpt from Loved to Life Transcript This is your deepest assurance that you are Loved to Life. Day 32: Go to God When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the brook Kidron, where...

“The One who breathed the stars into existence breathes prayers for you; the One whose words spoke the world into being uses priceless words over your being; the One who made time, lives beyond time, controls all of time, uses all of His time to pray for you—because you are priceless to Him.” An excerpt from Loved to Life Transcript This is your deepest assurance that you are Loved to...

“Your passionate love for Jesus is actually proof of God’s love first for you — proof that His love for you first is what moves you to love at all.” An excerpt from Loved to Life Transcript Day 30: An Untroubled Heart “I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly ab...

“If we long to be the hands and feet of Jesus in the world, can we embrace what happened to Jesus’ hands and feet?” An excerpt from Loved to Life Transcript This is your deepest assurance that you are Loved to Life. Day 29: Out of This World “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but b...

“It’s a humbling gift when you come to realize: You can’t live a good life—you will need the One who is good to live His life through you.” An excerpt from Loved to Life Transcript This is your deepest assurance that you are Loved to Life. Day 28: Abide “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch...

“How can your heart be troubled when God makes His full-time residence in your heart?” An excerpt from Loved to Life Transcript This is your deepest assurance that you are Loved to Life. Day 27: Your Advocate “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world ca...

“Jesus is the Life. Success isn’t he life, accolade isn’t the life, vacation isn’t the life, romance isn’t the life, family isn’t the life, dazzle isn’t the life, the dream isn’t the life — Jesus is the Life” An excerpt from Loved to Life Transcript This is your deepest assurance that you are Loved to Life. Day 26: The Way “Let not your h...

“It changes your heart when you know Christ died for those who’ve hurt your heart.” An excerpt from Loved to Life Transcript This is your deepest assurance that you are Loved to Life. Day 25: Loving the Impossible After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, “Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” The disciples looked at one another...

“Love that goes low lifts everyone high. Love that kneels down raises everyone up. Love that bends is what straightens things out.” An excerpt from Loved to Life Transcript This is your deepest assurance that you are Loved to Life. Day 24: People of the Towel. It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. H...

“What feels like everything falling apart, may be you becoming a seed falling into the earth, to break apart and grow into more.” An excerpt from Loved to Life Transcript This is your deepest assurance that you are Loved to Life. Day 23: Letting Go Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks. So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked...

“You’re as deeply committed to Jesus as you are to your daily adoration of Jesus.” An excerpt from Loved to Life Transcript This is your deepest assurance that you are Loved to Life. Day 22: Palms of Praise The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna!...

“If you lavishly love Jesus, you live daily, lavish worship of Jesus. Because it’s one thing to give Christ what you have; it’s another thing to give Him who you are.” An excerpt from Loved to Life Transcript This is your deepest assurance that you are Loved to Life. Day 21: Poured Out Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had rais...

“The real question isn’t where God is in this, but where you are in proximity, intimacy, and vulnerability with Him through this.” An excerpt from Loved to Life Transcript This is your deepest assurance that you are Loved to Life. Day 20: If He Had Been Here… Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. It was Mary who anointed t...

“Scripture cannot be broken, because God cannot break His Word” An excerpt from Loved to Life Transcript This is your deepest assurance that you are loved to life. Day 19: One “I and the Father are one.” The Jews picked up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” The Jews answe...

“What greatly changes your heart is to see that your heart is the Shepherd’s greatest treasure.” An excerpt from Loved to Life Transcript This is your deepest assurance that you are loved to life. Day 18: Known “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the...

“He sees your suffering, and he doesn’t sit still; it’s your crisis that drives him to the cross. His love always rushes to hold your lament.” An excerpt from Loved to Live Transcript This is your deepest assurance that you are loved to life. Day 17: Why You? As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he w...

“When your gaze has been struck by the light of Christ, all there is to see is Jesus: You only see the imago Dei, the face of God, in everyone around you, and everyone around you sees the light of Christ in you.” An excerpt from Loved to Life Transcript This is your deepest assurance that you are loved to life. Day 16: Light Has Dawned When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I...