Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership with Ruth Haley Barton
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
Join us for Season 15, Lent for Leaders: With God in the Wilderness. Ruth Haley Barton and Steve Weins will journey through Lent with a spirit of self-examination and desire for intimacy with God. Each episode will highlight a particular temptation found in one of the passages from Cycle C of the Revised Common Lectionary for Lent that is relevant for leaders today and Ruth and Steve will provide practices to combat those temptations.
In week one, Ruth and Steve examine the temptation of Jesus in Luke 4. How do we see these temptations to be relevant, spectacular, and powerful show up in our own lives? How can the practice of hiddenness be the antidote to this? What does it look like to fashion our own wilderness? We’ll discuss all this and more in today’s episode.
Lectionary readings for the first Sunday of Lent, Cycle C:
Deuteronomy 26:1-11 • Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16 • Romans 10:8b-13 • Luke 4:1-13
Music Credit:
Kingdom Come by Aaron Niequist
Returning from Lent Music In Solitude
Mentioned in the episode:
The Way of the Heart by Henri Nouwen
Lectio Divina for Luke 4: This week we are giving all listeners a chance to hear what happens over in our Patreon community. Please enjoy this guided Lectio Divina reading of the scripture used in this week’s episode, available to everyone on our Patreon page.
Ruth wrote a reflection for Ash Wednesday over on our Beyond Words blog.
Support the podcast! Patrons at the $10 level will receive a digital download of Ruth Haley Barton’s Lent: A Season of Returning. It includes Cycle C scriptures and space to journal your own thoughts and prayers. This season $10 patrons will also receive guided spiritual practices like Lectio Divinas and Examens that correspond with each week’s episode. Become a patron today by visiting our Patreon page!
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Season 20: Episode 4 | The Pain and the Promise of Communion
Season 20: Episode 3 | Re-thinking Sunday Mornings: Creating Space for God
Season 20: Episode 2 | Beyond Auto Pilot: Worship that is Spiritually Substantive
FROM PATREON: Principles of Transforming Worship
Season 20: Episode 1 | Beyond the Frenzy: Worship that Transforms
FROM PATREON: A Special Conversation about Justice with Sandra Van Opstal
FROM PATREON: Ask Ruth #8: Questions about A Just Lent
REPLAY Season 17: Episode 5 | The Power of Unplugging
REPLAY Season 16: Episode 6 | Second Order Change: Recognizing and Dissolving Stuck Patterns
REPLAY Season 10: Episode 7 | The Classic Spiritual Disciplines
REPLAY: Season 6: Episode 4 | Finding Your Rhythm on Retreat
Special Mini-Episode: A State of the Podcast Announcement
Season 19: Easter Monday | Transforming Post-Resurrection Encounters with Jesus
Season 19: Lent Week 6 | Lament: Saying No to Triumphalism
Season 19: Lent Week 5 | Communal Suffering: Can These Bones Live?
Season 19: Lent Week 4 | Opposing Violent Injustice: Bringing Light to the Darkest Places
Season 19: Lent Week 3 | The Work of Justice: Healing our Broken Ways
Season 19: Lent Week 2 | Colonialism and Christianity: Bible Translation as a Work of Justice
Season 19: Lent Week 1| Confession: What We Have Done and What We Have Left Undone
Season 19: Lent Ash Wednesday | Invitation to a Just Lent: Learning to Love What God Loves
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