Doing Lent... Well?

If you think you are good at Lent… You are not. No one is good at Lent. But there is a good reason for this. Lent is often a challenge because it requires letting go of things that hinder us in following the Lord. It requires taking up the cross and denying ourselves for something much greater and more beautiful: a deeper encounter with the love and person of Jesus Christ. This helps us to begin to think more like Christ, to live more like Christ, to love more like Christ. But how do we do this?
In this episode we invite some of our friends to share some of their own thoughts and experiences of drawing near to the Lord during Lent.

Special Guests:

• Sonja Corbitt
• Taylor Schroll
• Matthew Leonard

Link to our previous Lent episode, Why Give Up?

*Some of Kara and Fred’s tips: *

• St John the Baptist: "he must increase, and I must decrease."
• Pray to your guardian angel to "humiliate you interiorly"
• Pray with this question: What is holding me back from growing in my relationship with Christ?
• Hear more on this in our "Come Follow Me" episode.

From the segment with Sonja:
Sonja’s LOVE method for prayerful Scripture study

From the segment with Taylor:
If you are not doing the basic fundamentals of living your faith, start there!
Check out our "Made for Greatness" episode for more on this topic.

From the segment with Matthew:
Sign up for Matthew Leonard’s free Lenten study.

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