Not my will, but your will be done, O’ God.
Could you offer this prayer? Jesus could. And did (Matthew 26:39). This line is the seed that sprouts into a harvest of healthy praying. After this offering, every thing else we say in prayer is but a twig or a branch. [Gethsemane Prayer by Eman Allam]
Why should prayers be short? Here’s you answer: Short Prayers? Really?
A Short Prayer for Each Day of Lent 2023
From Cross to Crown. An inescapable tension. In the Good Friday cross of Jesus we see how hostile to God the human race has become. But on Easter Sunday God raises Jesus from the dead and crowns him King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Christ’s crown announces the forgiveness of our sin and the redemption of all things in creation.
Ash Wednesday marks the first of forty days of discipline and devotion, as we meditate on what happened and thank God for divine grace in our lives. This 2023 Lenten season I recommend you engage with one Short Prayer per day, six days per week, until Easter.
Just click, read, meditate, and pray.
LENT BEGINS
Ash Wednesday, Feb 22, 2023: 1. Creation Click here to get started!
Thursday, Feb 23, 2023: 2. Incarnation
Friday, Feb 24, 2023: 3. Truth
Saturday, March 25, 2023: 4. Beauty
Monday, Feb 27, 2023: 5. Gross
Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023: 6. Prayer in Crisis
Wednesday, March 1, 2023: 7. Twaddle
Thursday, March 2, 2023: 8. Fire
Friday, March 3, 2023: 9. Family
Saturday, March 4, 2023: 10. Healing
Monday, March 6, 2023: 11. Cross
Tuesday, March 7, 2023: 12. Fool
Wednesday, March 8, 2023: 13. Faith
Thursday, March 9, 2023: 14. Hope
Friday, March `10, 2023: 15. Love
Saturday, March 11, 2023: 16. Peace
Monday, March 13, 2023: 17. Strength
Tuesday, March 14, 2023: 18. Temptation
Wednesday, March 15, 2023: 19. Revenge
Thursday, March 16, 2023: 20. Wild
Friday, March 17, 2023: 21. Freedom
Saturday, March 18, 2023: 22. Small
Monday, March 20, 2023: 23. Nature
Tuesday, March 21, 2023: 24. Grace
Wednesday, March 22, 2023: 25. Buddha
Thursday, March 23, 2023: 26. Mysticism
Friday, March 24, 2023: 27. Baptism
Saturday, March 25, 2023: 28. Communion
Monday, March 27, 2023: 29. Heaven
Tuesday, March 28, 2023: 30. Humor
Wednesday, March 29, 2023: 31. Blessing
Thursday, March 30, 2023: 32. Sin
Friday, March 31, 2023: 33. Redemptive Violence
Saturday, April 1, 2023: 34. Sin Boldly!
PALM SUNDAY begins Holy Week
Holy Monday, April 3, 2023: 35. Jesus Cleanses the Temple
Holy Tuesday, April 4, 2023: 36. Jesus Curses the Fig Tree
Holy Wednesday, April 5, 2023: 37. The Authority of Jesus Questioned
Maundy Thursday, April 6, 2023: 38. Jesus Prays in Gethsemane
Good Friday, April 7, 2023: 39. The Death of Jesus
Holy Saturday, April 8, 2023: 40. The Burial of Jesus
EASTER
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Ted Peters is a Lutheran pastor and emeritus seminary professor. He is author of Short Prayers and The Cosmic Self. His one volume systematic theology is now in its 3rd edition, God—The World’s Future (Fortress 2015). He has undertaken a thorough examination of the sin-and-grace dialectic in two works, Sin: Radical Evil in Soul and Society (Eerdmans 1994) and Sin Boldly! (Fortress 2015). He is now publishing a new collection of essays, The Voice of Public Christian Theology (ATF 2022). See his website: TedsTimelyTake.com.
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