CCCA 2024 Lent Calendar

February 13

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0800

INTRODUCTION TO THE 2024 LENT PROJECT

EXPLORING THE HEART OF ST. PAUL:
LENTEN MEDITATIONS FROM THE LETTERS OF THE APOSTLE

Lent is a grace-filled season of the year when we determine to offer more of our time in prayer, fasting, and giving to the One who gave his all for ...

February 14

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0800

WEEK ONE
TITLE: PAUL, AN APOSTLE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
February 14–February 17

Lent is a perfect opportunity for each of us to participate in a “big picture” survey of our lives by spending time reflecting on where we currently find ourselves regarding our life in Christ. By ...

February 15

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0800

Day 2 - Thursday, February 15
Title: FROM MURDERER TO MISSIONARY
Scripture #1: I Timothy 1:15-16 (NKJV)
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. However, for this reason I obtained mercy, that ...

February 16

Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0800

Day 3 - Friday, February 16
Title: INTIMACY WITH THE RISEN CHRIST
Scripture: Philippians 3:7-14 (NKJV)
But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for ...

February 17

Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0800

Day 4 - Saturday, February 17
Title: FAITHFUL TO THE END
Scripture #1: Acts 20:24 (NKJV)
But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord ...

February 18

Sun, 18 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0800

WEEK TWO INTRODUCTION
TITLE: OUR STRUGGLE WITH SIN
February 18 - February 24
“For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God,” St. Paul famously wrote in Romans 3:23. A big part of the human condition is our ongoing struggle with sin. Sinfulness is a characteristic common ...

February 19

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0800

Day 6 - Monday, February 19
Title: THE UNIVERSALITY OF SIN
Scripture #1: Romans 3:9-23; 6:23 (NKJV)
What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin. As it is written: “There is none ...

February 20

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0800

Day 7 - Tuesday, February 20
Title: IN THE WILDERNESS
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 (NKJV)
Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea ...

February 21

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0800

Day 8 - Wednesday, February 21
Title: O WRETCHED MAN
Scripture: Romans 7:14-25 (NKJV)
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but ...

February 22

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0800

Day 9 - Thursday, February 22
Title: SLAVES OF SIN OR RIGHTEOUSNESS?
Scripture: Romans 6:12-22 (NKJV)
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to ...

February 23

Fri, 23 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0800

Day 10 - Friday, February 23
Title: CHASTENED OF THE LORD
Scripture: Hebrews 12:4-11 (NKJV)
For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. And you have forgotten the ...

February 24

Sat, 24 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0800

Day 11 - Saturday, February 24
Title: WRESTLING WITH THE FORCES OF DARKNESS
Scripture: Ephesians 6:10-18 (NKJV)
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of ...

February 25

Sun, 25 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0800

WEEK THREE INTRODUCTION
TITLE: STARTING ON THE CHRISTIAN WAY
February 25 - March 2

What does the New Testament have to say about salvation and the path to eternal life? Paul and Silas told the Philippian jailer to “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ” (Acts 16:31) and he would be ...

February 26

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0800

Day 13 - Monday, February 26
Title: BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
Scripture #1: Romans 10:10 (NKJV)
For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Scripture #2: Acts 16:25-34 (NKJV)
But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and ...

February 27

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0800

Day 14 - Tuesday, February 27
Title: THE WATERS OF BAPTISM
Scripture #1: Galatians 3:27 (NKJV)
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Scripture #2: Romans 6:3-6 (KJV)
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ ...

February 28

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0800

Day 15 - Wednesday, February 28
Title: THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Scripture #1: Ephesians 1:13-21 (NKJV)
In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who ...

February 29

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0800

Day 16 - Thursday, February 29
Title: WALK IN THE SPIRIT
Scripture #1: 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NKJV)
Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were ...

March 1

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0800

Day 17 - Friday, March 01
Title: GRACES FOR THE HEIRS OF GRACE
Scripture: Titus 3:4-7 (NKJV)
But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the ...

March 2

Sat, 02 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0800

Day 18 - Saturday, March 02
Title: PRESENT YOUR ENTIRE SELF TO GOD
Scripture: Romans 12:1-2 (NKJV)
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to ...

March 3

Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0800

WEEK FOUR INTRODUCTION
TITLE: THEY’LL KNOW WE ARE CHRISTIANS BY OUR LOVE
March 03 - March 09
Jesus emphatically stated, “By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” (John 13:35, NKJV). The way we love one another demonstrates the depth ...

March 4

Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0800

Day 20 - Monday, March 04
Title: DEEP COMPASSION FOR ALL THOSE WITHOUT CHRIST
Scripture #1: Romans 9:1-3 (NKJV)
I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart ...

March 5

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0800

Day 21 - Tuesday, March 05
Title: LOVE IN ACTION
Scripture #1: Galatians 6:1-5 (NKJV)
Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and ...

March 6

Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0800

Day 22 - Wednesday, March 06
Title: WALK IN LOVE FORGIVING ONE ANOTHER
Scriptures #1: Ephesians 4:1-6 (NKJV), Ephesians 4:1-6,32; 5:1-2 (NKJV)
I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness ...

March 7

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0800

Day 23 - Thursday, March 07
Title: THE MINISTRY OF LOVE TO THE SAINTS
Scripture #1: Galatians 6:7-10 (NKJV)
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption ...

March 8

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0800

Day 24 - Friday, March 08
Title: CHRIST’S LOVE FOR THE CHURCH EXEMPLIFIED THROUGH CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE
Scriptures #1: Ephesians 5:20-30, Ephesians 5:32 (NKJV)
Giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another in the fear ...

March 9

Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0800

Day 25 - Saturday, March 09
Title: THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 (NKJV)
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy ...

March 10

Sun, 10 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0800

WEEK FIVE INTRODUCTION
TITLE: THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN
March 10 - March 16
In Acts 17:6, Paul and Silas are accused of “turn[ing] the world upside down.” Christianity was spreading like wildfire because these men of God, filled with the Holy Spirit and completely dedicated to the furtherance ...

March 11

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Day 27 - Monday, March 11
Title: GOD USES THE FOOLISH & WEAK TO CONFOUND THE WISE
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (NKJV)
For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things ...

March 12

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Day 28 - Tuesday, March 12
Title: UNUSUAL TREATMENT FOR A RUNAWAY SLAVE
Scripture: Philemon 1:8-16 (NKJV)
Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to command you what is fitting, yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you—being such a one as Paul, the aged ...

March 13

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Day 29 - Wednesday, March 13
Title: LAW VS. GRACE: DO ALL TO THE GLORY OF GOD
Scripture #1: Galatians 5:1 (NKJV)
Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
Scripture #2: 1 Corinthians ...

March 14

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Day 30 - Thursday, March 14
Title: SERVANTHOOD: OUR CHRISTIAN CALLING
Scripture #1: Galatians 1:10 (NKJV)
For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.
Scripture #2: 1 Corinthians 4 ...

March 15

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Day 31 - Friday, March 15
Title: A THEOLOGY OF TRUE HAPPINESS
Scripture #1: 1 Thessalonians 5:16–18 (NKJV)
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Scripture #2: Philippians 4:4–9 (NKJV)
Rejoice in the ...

March 16

Sat, 16 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Day 32 - Saturday, March 16
Title: EMBRACING SUFFERING & DEATH FOR THE CAUSE OF CHRIST
Scripture #1: Acts 21:13 (NKJV)
Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but even to die at Jerusalem for the name ...

March 17

Sun, 17 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

WEEK SIX INTRODUCTION
TITLE: CHRIST CRUCIFIED: THE PREACHING OF THE CROSS
March 17 - March 23

We discover in Paul’s writings the emergence of a sophisticated theology regarding Christ’s death and resurrection. Paul is the New Testament author who fleshes out concepts like atonement, redemption, propitiation, reconciliation, justification, and ...

March 18

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Day 34 - Monday, March 18
Title: BE RECONCILED TO CHRIST
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:14-21 (NKJV)
For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for ...

March 19

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Day 35- Tuesday, March 19
Title: JEW & GENTILE: UNITED IN CHRIST THROUGH THE CROSS
Scripture #1: 2 Corinthians 3:12-18 (NKJV)
Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech—unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not ...

March 20

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Day 36- Wednesday, March 20
Title: CHRIST OUR EXAMPLE OF ENDURANCE
Scripture: Hebrews 12:1-2 (NKJV)
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance ...

March 21

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Day 37 - Thursday, March 21
Title: THE HUMBLED & EXALTED CHRIST
Scripture: Philippians 2:5-11 (NKJV)
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation ...

March 22

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Day 38 - Friday, March 22
Title: CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST
Scripture #1: Galatians 6:14-15 (NKJV)
But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. For in Christ Jesus neither ...

March 23

Sat, 23 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Day 39 - Saturday, March 23
Title: THE PREEMINENCE OF THE CRUCIFIED CHRIST
Scripture: Colossians 1:15-23 (NKJV)
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether ...

March 24

Sun, 24 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

WEEK SEVEN––HOLY WEEK
TITLE: CHRIST’S SACRIFICIAL DEATH
March 24 - March 30

Losing a family member or beloved friend to death is a difficult experience, one that all of us will face at some point in our lives. Deep grief is often the accompanying emotion, filling us with the ...

March 25

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Day 41 - Monday, March 25
Title: THE FREE GIFT OF LOVE
Scripture: Romans 5:6-15 (NKJV)
For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare ...

March 26

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Day 42 - Tuesday, March 26
Title: THE BLOOD OF JESUS
Scripture: Hebrews 9:11-22 (NKJV)
But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. Not with the blood of goats ...

March 27

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Day 43 - Wednesday, March 27
Title: CHRIST’S PASSION
Scripture: Hebrews 5:5-10 (NKJV)
So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him: “You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.” As He also says in another place: “You ...

March 28

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Day 44 - Thursday, March 28
MAUNDY THURSDAY
Title: THE LORD’S SUPPER
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:23-32 (NKJV)
For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; and when He had ...

March 29

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Day 45 - Friday, March 29
GOOD FRIDAY
Title: CHRIST’S SUFFERING FOR THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE
Scripture #1: Hebrews 2:9-10 (NKJV)
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the ...

March 30

Sat, 30 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Day 46 - Saturday, March 30
HOLY SATURDAY
Title: O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY?
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:42-57 (NKJV)
The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in ...

March 31

Sun, 31 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

WEEK EIGHT––BRIGHT WEEK
TITLE: THE DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION & ETERNAL LIFE
March 31 - April 06

As we discovered in Week 6, Paul’s preaching of the cross was central to his Christology. Yet what happened to the suffering Christ on the cross would have remained a tragedy of profound ...

April 1

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Day 48 - Monday, April 1
Title: THE RISEN CHRIST, OUR ONLY HOPE
Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 15:3-8,12-19, 32 (NKJV)
For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that ...

April 2

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Day 49 - Tuesday, April 02
Title: DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP BY LIFE
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:1-11 (NKJV)
For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we ...

April 3

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Day 50 - Wednesday, April 03
Title: DEATH WILL BE DESTROYED FOREVER
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:20-28 (NKJV)
But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the ...

April 4

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Day 51 - Thursday, April 04
Title: THE PROMISE OF A FUTURE WITH CHRIST
Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 (NKJV)
But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus ...

April 5

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Day 52 - Friday, April 05
Title: FOCUS ON THE ETERNAL
Scripture #1: Colossians 3:1-4 (NKJV)
If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the ...

April 6

Sat, 06 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Day 53 - Saturday, April 06
Title: SECURE IN GOD’S LOVE
Scripture #1: Romans 8:28-39 (NKJV)
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to ...