Lent 2021 - A journey with The Nazarene - guided by the music and words of Michael Card

 

As part of my Lent reading and thinking, I am going to be revisiting the 4 CD albums Michael Card released as part of his 'Biblical Imagination' series of works on the Gospels.  

This time, I will not be listening alongside the original books, but instead using a new resource from Michael called, The Nazarene - in which he prints the lyrics and offers short devotions.  He invites his listener/reader to join him in listening to 'the lyrical life of the Nazarene.' (Chapter 1)

Refreshingly in the opening devotion he is candid in saying that the songs he has written over the years are often just 'fragmented attempts.'  So rather than claiming to be a guide who knows everything, he invites his listener/reader to add their own meditations to his.  The single objective being that together Card and those who choose to use his material continue to ask questions of Jesus' life, to listen to the song that Jesus sings and learn how to sing in tune with The Nazarene.

I don't promise that I will write regularly over Lent, nor do I promise that I will write anything polished, but if I am inspired to add my fragments to Card's then I will add them here and hope that it encourages anyone who happens to read to join in the great adventure of discovering the one who "Came, saw and surrendered all, so that we might be born again." (The Nazarene - Michael Card)