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Five Solas Church | Reedsburg, WI

Resources on Lent

Mar 3, 2019 | Ask the Pastor

Every year around this time, Reformed Pastors are asked, “Why doesn’t your church offer lenten services?”

While our answer is simple enough — “Because we have no scriptural warrant to do so” — we understand that this answer may not be entirely satisfactory to modern evangelicals.

The Rev. R. Scott Clark (URCNA ) has  compiled a helpful list of resources on the question of Lent and we commend it to your personal study.

  1. William Whittaker Contra Lent
  2. Richard Sibbes Contra Lent
  3. Owen Contra Lent, Easter, And The Normative Principle Of Worship
  4. With The Reformed Pubcast On Lent And Sola Scriptura
  5. The Reformed Defense Of Christian Liberty In 1530
  6. The Reformed Reject Lent In Basle In 1534
  7. The Westminster Divines On Holy Days
  8. “Relevance” Leads Back To Rome
  9. Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples On Lent
  10. Manton: Lent Is Just Another Phony Tradition
  11. Sacraments Versus Selective Piety
  12. Of King Cakes And Christian Liberty
  13. Lent: Of Good Intentions, Spiritual Disciplines, and Christian Freedom
  14. Directory of Publick Worship: Holy Days Have No Warrant in the Word
  15. On Good Intentions, Spiritual Disciplines, and Christian Freedom
  16. Calvin on Lent
  17. The Problem of Lent for Confessional Reformed Christians
  18. More Baseball Analogies: Lent is Like Spring Training
  19. Zwingli On Rejecting Lent and Protecting Christian Liberty
  20. Thomas Cartwright Contra Lent

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