Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional

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Journey through Lent with Best-Selling Author Paul David Tripp
“During our forty days together, may your mourning increase so that your joy may deepen.”―Paul David Tripp
Lent is a time in the yearly Christian calendar when we mourn our sin and let go of worldly things that keep our hearts from experiencing God more fully. But how do we reevaluate and recalibrate the values of our hearts to match those of our suffering Savior?
In this forty-day Lenten devotional, best-selling author Paul David Tripp invites us to set aside time from the busyness of our lives to focus on the suffering and sacrifice of Jesus. Each of the short readings encourages us to abide in the abundant joy found in Christ as we encounter the Savior more fully and follow him more faithfully during this Lenten season.

From Publishers Weekly

Pastor Tripp (My Heart Cries Out) presents a “devotional of celebration and self-examination” with these 40 comforting daily reflections for Lent. Tripp encourages readers to meditate on Jesus’s sacrifice and suffering during the Lenten season and explains that, as mourning deepens, so does the capacity for joy. At the end of each devotional, he provides questions for reflection, such as “What do you need to give up, for a season or more permanently, to root the idols out of your heart?” and “what are your greatest disappointments in life, and what deeper desires do those things reveal?” Tripp suggests that readers view Lent as a season of prayer, which he refers to as both a gift of communion and internal “spiritual warfare”: “To pray we need rescuing grace that will free us from the dominion of our own selfish hearts.” He also discusses unwillingness as a characteristic of sin and compares it with Christ’s willingness to lay down his life, and reminds Christians that Jesus’s journey “didn’t end with the cross but with the victory of the empty tomb.” The author’s typically patient explanations of scriptural lessons and insightful connections to contemporary life drive each devotion. Tripp’s evocative guidance will be welcomed by fans and newcomers alike. (Jan.)

Review

“This is all that we’ve come to expect and enjoy from Paul Tripp––a daily, fresh delivery of gospel comfort and hope. This will help us all to deepen our sense of appreciation and wonder at what Jesus has done for us.”―Sam Allberry, pastor; author, 7 Myths about Singleness
“Paul Tripp has once again led us past feel-good platitudes and into focused, Christward reflection. Through tension and tenderness, lament and thanksgiving, the Lenten season will transform us when it leads us to the cross of Christ.”―Ruth Chou Simons, Wall Street Journal best-selling author, Beholding and Becoming and GraceLaced; artist; Founder, GraceLaced Co.
“Like so many others, I have benefited richly, and for years, from the ministry and writing of Paul Tripp. This latest work is no exception. Journey to the Cross is a precious reminder―one worth returning to again and again―of not only the rich benefits we receive through Christ’s humiliation, death, and burial, but also of his dignifying invitation to properly lament the wrong that is in the world and the wrong that is within us. The season of Lent is a special, forty-day season to enable and empower God’s people to do just that, and Tripp has provided us with a remarkable roadmap for the journey. I can’t recommend this wonderful resource highly enough.”―Scott Sauls, Senior Pastor, Christ Presbyterian Church, Nashville, Tennessee; author, Jesus Outside the Lines and A Gentle Answer
“I can’t imagine volunteering to take a journey toward a place of gruesome execution. Who would? But that is the kind of passage that Lent asks of us every year: a journey of evaluation, examination, and blessed humiliation that leads to new life and increased joy. So, if we must traverse this path, then I don’t know anyone whom I’d rather have as my tour guide than my brother, Paul Tripp. Through his decades of soul care,