Engage
A Lenten Guide for Spiritual Growth
by Kai Nilsen, Renovaré Team
Available in 2020 as a free e‑book (PDF). Download today.
This Lenten resource is a guide for reflection, repentance, and renewal. Each week explores a classic spiritual discipline and includes a description of the discipline, a scriptural reference, reflections on the discipline, and questions that can be used individually or in a group. Use this guide to strengthen existing relationships, deepen superficial relationships, or open up new and vital relationships.
Contents:
- Ash Wednesday Week: Submission
- Week One: Study
- Week Two: Worship
- Week Three: Celebration
- Week Four: Service
- Week Five: Community
- Holy Week
- Easter Sunday
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About the Authors
Kai is Senior Pastor of Incarnation Lutheran in Shoreview, Minnesota. Previously he served as lead pastor at Peace Lutheran Church in Columbus, Ohio, after having joined the staff in 1993. Beyond his pastoral work, Kai is on the Renovaré Ministry Team and teaches in the Renovaré Institute for Spiritual Formation. In 2009, Kai completed his Doctor of Ministry degree through Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, California. Kai’s book Renew Your Life: Discovering the Wellspring of God’s Energy was published in the fall of 2015. Kai and his wife Patty are parents of four children — Anders, Annika, Leif and Siri.
Renovaré is a Christian nonprofit that models, resources, and advocates fullness of life with God experienced, by grace, through the spiritual practices of Jesus and of the historical Church. Christian in commitment, ecumenical in breadth, and international in scope, Renovaré helps people in becoming more like Jesus through print and online resources, gatherings and retreats, and educational initiatives like the Renovaré Institute.