Looking for Kendall Harmon’s TitusOneNine blog?

Wow, I was stunned to look at our site meter and see we’ve had hundreds of hits to my recent “pray for Stand Firm and TitusOneNine” post last week when Stand Firm had its server crash. Obviously many folks are trying to figure out what happened to Kendall’s blog and where they might find the backup site. (Stand Firm is back at its normal URL, but TitusOneNine is still is some kind of limbo following the server move).

Here are two temporary links where you can find T19:
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/?/t19/index (normal format)

The backup (emergency) site at blogspot: http://t19backup.blogspot.com/

Keep praying for wisdom for the tech folks to sort out the problems so that Kendall can be back at his normal blog address
soon!

UPDATE: Kendall is back at his normal blog address:

http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/

Yay!

Pray for Stand Firm & Titusonenine

Greg Griffith and all the Stand Firm bloggers, as well as Kendall Harmon and his elves need our prayers. The huge traffic surge crashed Stand Firm and Greg is trying to move the blog(s) to a new server.

In the meantime, both SF & T19 have backup sites running

http://standfirmlive.blogspot.com/

http://t19backup.blogspot.com/

Father, please grant your mercy and peace to all those blogging from General Convention, especially Greg and the SF Team, that they could still record and publish a truthful and timely record of events in Anaheim. Give Greg wisdom and success in overcoming the technical challenges that have disrupted the blogging at such a critical time. In Jesus name, Amen.

Apologies for lapse in Lenten blogging

Apologies to all our readers and regular Lenten visitors for the recent lapse in Lenten blogging. I had a whole long list of prayers and quotes to post here in recent days, but I’ve been out of the office in meetings many days, and/or had a terrible internet connection much of the time I have been at my computer. Such is life in Africa…

Lenten blogging should resume on a more normal level (internet connection allowing) tomorrow, April 1 – no joke! I also have already “pre-posted” a lot of entries for Holy Week, so hang in there with us. I hope and pray the Lent-themed devotional entries we have posted almost every day of Lent have been, and continue to be a blessing.

– Karen B.

An Index of our Lent 2009 entries (Feb 23 – Mar 2)

I’ve updated our Lent 2009 “home page” / index which appears at the top of the blog.  It now provides a rough index of all Lent entries we’ve posted so far in various categories.  I’ll try to update that every few days.

For the sake of convenience, here is the index as it looks this morning:

1.  Our Lent entries by category:
Lent Devotionals
Lent Prayers
Lent Quotes
Lent Resources
Lent: Family & Children

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2.  Other quick links – Notable Posts (Updated March 3)

(With the exception of the resources list, entries are listed more or less in order of posting, most recent first)

a. Resources
Our Top Ten Favorite Lent Resources
Some NEW Lenten Resources to recommend
Update on Anglican Lent Resources
An Appeal for Anglican Lenten Resources
Lent for children & families: A Lenten version of a “Jesse Tree”
Lent Resource: Trinity School for Ministry Daily Devotionals
Lent Resource: 40 Days for Life
Recommended Resource: This Day in the Word
Anglican Relief & Development’s Lenten Appeal
Ash Wednesday Resources & Links
From our Archives: Index of all the 2006 Anglican Bloggers Lenten Devotional posts

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b. Prayers
Dietrich Bonhoeffer – In Me there is Darkness, but with You there is Light
Arise Thou Sun Upon the Winter Landscape of My Heart
Charles Wesley – Make My Heart a House of Prayer
EB Pusey – May we weary of all which is not His
Lenten Prayer: to be freed from the seven deadly sins
St. Augustine – Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit
One blogger’s Daily Prayer for Lent
Ash Wednesday Prayers: Turn to us O Lord, and we shall be turned
St. Anselm – Grant us Grace to Desire You with a whole heart
Two Ash Wednesday Prayers
Charles Wesley: Christ Whose Glory Fills the Skies
St. Polycarp – Increase in us faith, truth and gentleness

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c.  Quotes

Jean Pierre de Caussade – the active practice of fidelity
Henri Nouwen – How am I to let myself be found by Him?
Hesychios – Set your soul in quietness
Pope Benedict XVI on Fasting
Giving up sin, not chocolate! (and an excellent set of questions for self examination)
St. Macarius the Great – Make a Beginning Every Day
The purpose of spiritual disciplines
Teresa of Avila – bringing our wills into conformity with the will of God

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d. Devotionals / Meditations:

From our Archives: Seek the Lord and Live, an Ash Wednesday Devotional
“Ashes”
An “emergent Catholic” reflects on prayer – “activity” vs. “meditation”
From our Archives: Index of all the 2006 Anglican Bloggers Lenten Devotional posts
Reflecting further on the juxtaposition of the Transfiguration & Lent
Preparing for Lent: What can I do before Lent begins?
Dr. Peter Toon reflects on Lent and justification by faith

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e. Miscellaneous:

Lent around the blogosphere - 3
Lent Around the Blogosphere – 2
Lent around the blogosphere (updated)

Finally have created a Lent Links & Resources Sidebar

Finally… I’ve gotten a chance to pull together a Lent sidebar with links to all our Lent categories here at L&B, as well as links to some of our favorite Lenten resources.

Look for it below the categories listing on the right hand sidebar of the blog.

Update on Anglican Lent Resources

Earlier in the week I posted an Appeal for good orthodox Anglican Lent resources.  In the comments to that post I began to note some links to sources I’d recommend.

Earlier today I posted links to daily Lenten devotionals being posted at Anglican Mainstream.  It turns out those devotionals come from Church of the Resurrection in Tampa, FL.  They are posting each week’s devotional guide online. Lent Week 1 booklet is here.

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I have also just found out that my WONDERFUL home church (no bias here!  ) Truro Church in Fairfax VA has put their excellent Lenten devotional guide based on the Ten Commandments online.  You can find that here.

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Finally for now, Stand Firm has posted my appeal for information on good orthodox Anglican Lenten resources.  Check out this thread.

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Please do let us know by comments or e-mail (AnglicanPrayer@gmail.com)  of Anglican resources you’d recommend.  I hope to pull together a new listing of all the links we’ve gathered so far to good Anglican Lenten resources on Saturday.  Thanks so much.

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Update: I got curious and wondered if some of the other big Anglican churches have Lent resources online.  Hopped over to Christ Church Plano’s website.  Yes, indeed they do have Lent Resources, here.  Note the downloadable PDF Devotional booklet “By the Cross”.

I’ll keep trying to find other good resources as I have the time.

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Update 2:

Trinity School for Ministry has an online daily Lenten devotional here.

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Update 3:
A reader at Stand Firm just let us know that Kairos, the young adults ministry of the Falls Church in Northern Virginia has a downloadable Lenten devotional guide. You can download the PDF file here.

Lent 2009 at Lent & Beyond

Lent 2009 officially begins on Feb. 25th and continues through April 11.  This page will stay at the top of the blog throughout Lent to help readers easily find the many different varieties of Lenten resources and devotionals we have posted.

A Blessed Lent to all of our readers!

We should have a Lenten prayer and/or quote just about every day of Lent.   So check back daily!

All of our Lent entries .  Lent Quotes .  Lent Prayers .  Our Top Ten Favorite Lent Resources .   & more…

An Appeal for Recommended Anglican Lenten Resources

Below I’ve posted my Top Ten list of favorite online Lenten Resources.   These are all great resources.  But given that Lent & Beyond is billed as an “Anglican Prayer Blog,”  there’s a pretty glaring shortfall in that list.  Very few of the resources linked below are specifically Anglican.

In the overall scheme of things, that’s not such a big deal.  Over the years, I’ve been blessed and encouraged by Lenten resources from Roman Catholic sources, Orthodox sources, Lutheran sources, Evangelical sources, etc.  When it comes to Lent, one does not need to be strictly confessional / denominational.

BUT, we here at Lent & Beyond would like to promote and publicize excellent ANGLICAN resources as well.  Please get out the word.  And please leave comments or send us e-mails if you have good resources you can recommend for orthodox Anglican / Episcopal readers.  These resources could be either online or offline – books, sermons, devotional guides, study guides, liturgical materials, etc. etc.   Our e-mail address:  AnglicanPrayer@gmail.com

We would be particularly thrilled to have links to or copies of parish devotional guides, family Lenten worship guides, etc., and materials that center around the Anglican lectionary and daily office readings (either 1928, 1979, RCL or some other recognized Anglican lectionary).

Please help us out!  Thanks, and a blessed Lent to all our readers.

Good news about Lent posts & resources

To our friends who read Lent & Beyond,

Even though our old blog site is no longer online, we’ve been able to use an archive site to retrieve ALL of our Lent entries from 2007, and should be able to retrieve 2006 and maybe 2005 Lenten entries as well.

That means that in addition to whatever new materials we may post this year, we should be able to bring back online a wealth of Lenten quotes, Lenten prayers, devotionals, and resource suggestions from our archives.

Keep checking back over the next 2-3 days as we  start to bring some of the treasures of our Lenten archives online.  We’ll likely post a number of links to excellent Lenten resources first, and then move on to Lenten devotionals, quotes and prayers once we hit Ash Wednesday (Feb. 25th).

The Cyber Hymnal has a new Address

Doing some blog housekeeping,  I discovered a comment from a few weeks ago by the administrators of the Cyber Hymnal website – one of our favorite resources on the internet.

Due to some kind of domain name conflict, they’ve got a new address:

http://www.hymntime.com/tch/

Bookmark it and spread the word!  It is a fantastic site.  We’ve updated our sidebar links.

Thinking about Lent…

Greetings all. This is Karen who is back in Africa after a 2 1/2 month home leave in the U.S. Now that my travels are over, I’m beginning to try to settle back into a routine, and am wondering how blogging fits into that routine.

Our Advent resources and devotionals were really popular and seemed to fill a need if our site traffic coming from Google and other searches is to be believed. I’m hoping to be able to do something similar for Lent, but am not sure what I/we can commit to.

I’d welcome suggestions and requests from our readers as to what you’d appreciate seeing posted here, and I’d also appreciate prayers that we all would be faithful to the Lord’s calling in what/how we blog during Lent. Thanks!

Preparing to pray for the Primates meeting

Now that the Christmas season is ending, with today being Epiphany, we’re beginning to think ahead to the Anglican Primates meeting scheduled for the end of this month.

If our readers have suggestions on what we could do at Lent & Beyond that would be helpful in facilitating prayer, we’d love to hear your ideas. Were the “Primates prayer profiles” we’ve done in the past helpful? Or the “illustrated Primates prayer brochure”?

Some examples of what we posted in 2007 for the Dar es Salaam meeting:

Here’s the primates_prayer_brochure (Word doc.) we produced in 2007.

Here’s the Primates Picture Gallery, Part 1 and the Primates Picture Gallery, Part 2

and here’s the Index to Prayer Profiles of each Province/Primate
(scroll to the section that says “Anglican Primate Prayer Profiles — Index (Updated Feb 12)”)

Please note: NONE of these files have yet been updated for the current Primates meeting.  But I hope to devote some time to that this coming weekend.  Do let us know what would be helpful!  Leave a comment or e-mail us:  AnglicanPrayer@gmail.com

Preparing for Advent — Advent 2008 Resources at Lent & Beyond

Ok all, I admit it. This and a few other posts that will appear between now and the beginning of Advent are shameless advertisements and meant to help get people’s attention, whet people’s appetites, AND to get Lent & Beyond showing up in Advent search results!

Once upon a time we were known for our special Advent & Lent series, but with the problems with our old blog site, basically we are off the map. It’s time to get back on the map. Lent & Beyond has several hundred posts of excellent Advent materials archived, and I’ve spend a lot of time the past 24 hours salvaging them all. (And I do mean ALL! — I’ve got something like 150 pages of text all now saved as 3 Word documents with all Advent posts from 2004 – 2006.) There’s so much wonderful material in those archives we want to make widely available again!

Advent 2008 at Lent & Beyond will be a mix of our old favorites, plus lots of new materials we’re already gathering.

What will you find here for Advent this year?

1) An updated compilation of over 100 links to online Advent & Christmas resources — Lectionary links (i.e. Advent reading plans), devotional sites, music and art resources, commentaries, online Advent calendars, Advent crafts, etc. We’re making sure all the links work, and digging up a few new links to add.

2) Lots of excellent Advent devotionals and quotes, from sources ancient and modern, Anglican, Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant.

3) Many Advent Prayers including traditional Advent collects, and Advent Wreath lighting prayers, etc.

4) A special series of Advent Favorites — some of our favorite Advent posts from 2004 – 2006 which we’ve salavaged from our old archives.

5) A special series of Anglican Heritage posts. Brief biographies of key Anglican saints and leaders. Also, some classical Anglican prayers.

Is that enough to whet your appetites?!

Please keep checking back over the next few days.  We’ve already got 20 posts queued up set to begin appearing daily as of Nov. 30th. The excitement is building!

Pass the word. Lent & Beyond is back for Advent 2008!

Here is the category link where you’ll find all our 2008 Advent posts.

Here is the link for the Advent Favorites category we’ll be featuring this year.

If there’s something you’re trying to find, either from something we’ve posted in years’ past at our old site, or if you just need recommendations for good Advent resources, give us a shout in the comments. We’ll be glad to help.

New Link Section in the Sidebar – Special Series

A long overdue admin tweak to the blog: I’ve created a section in the sidebar called *Special Series*

You’ll find it below the list of categories on the right before the links section of the sidebar.  There you’ll be able to access some of our L&B Prayer Series with one-click.  So far there are 3 series that I’ve categorized:

• 40 Days For Life
• Piper on Prayer
• Praying for Our Pastors

Whenever we start a new series, I’ll try to set up a subcategory and get its link included in the special series box.  This will hold true for any Advent series we do this year, and for special prayer campaigns for Anglican Events (like the 2009 Primates meeting, etc.).

We always welcome suggestions for how this blog can be easier to use.  Feel free to leave feedback.

Common Cause Prayer Blog — RSS Feed Added to the Sidebar

Recently whenever I’ve read the Common Cause Prayer Blog, I’ve thought, “oh I should go post a link to that entry at Lent & Beyond!”  But busyness and internet problems have kept me from doing any blogging in recent weeks.

Tonight though, there were at least 3 entries at the Common Cause Prayer Blog I wanted to link, and so I thought to myself, “This is silly,  there MUST be a way I can have the RSS feed from the Prayer Blog show up in the sidebar of Lent & Beyond.  I’ve got to figure it out.”  So… a little research and playing around in my blog design settings, and Voila.

I am proud to announce that the Common Cause Prayer Blog RSS feed is now proudly displayed on our sidebar.  Please keep an eye for new entries there.  Everything they post is well worth reading and praying through!