Christianity Today Book Award Finalist—Bible and Devotional

"Lent is inescapably about repenting." Every year, the church invites us into a season of repentance and fasting in preparation for Holy Week. It's an invitation to turn away from our sins and toward the mercy and grace of Christ.

Often, though, we experience the Lenten fast as either a mindless ritual or self-improvement program. In this short volume, priest and scholar Esau McCaulley introduces the season of Lent, showing us how its prayers and rituals point us not just to our own sinfulness but also beyond it to our merciful Savior.

Each volume in the Fullness of Time series invites readers to engage with the richesof the church year, exploring the traditions, prayers, Scriptures, and rituals of the seasons of the church calendar.



Esau McCaulley (PhD, St. Andrews) is associate professor of New Testament at Wheaton College and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. He is the author of Reading While Black and Sharing in the Son's Inheritance, as well as the children's book Josie Johnson's Hair and the Holy Spirit. He lives in Wheaton, Illinois, with his wife and four children.



The Fullness of Time: Series Preface

We Must Repent: An Introduction to Lent



1. Facing Death, Finding Hope: Ash Wednesday

2. What Do These Things Mean?: The Rituals of Lent

3. What We Have Received: The Prayers and Scripturesof Lent

4. He Loved Us to the End: Holy Week



Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes