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