Beloved Dust Lent Study
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Lent Reading Guide
What follows is a 40-day Lent reading plan to read Beloved Dust. This 40 day period excludes Sundays, where the focus of your time will be on the movement of the Lenten season to the Cross and Resurrection. We encourage you to follow lectionary readings for this season alongside your reading of Beloved Dust. The Lenten season starts by hearing: “You are dust, and to dust you shall return” (starting on Ash Wednesday). Our hope is that Beloved Dust will take us into this season in a much deeper way than merely coming up with something to “give up” for a while. We hope that we can penetrate to the heart of the Gospel by attending to the entire movement of God to be with us. This is really the heart of Lent.
What you will find below is a list of your daily readings. We have listed the section, followed by the page numbers, to try to make this as easy as possible. The readings will not take long but there is a lot to ponder. We encourage you to sit with the readings, open up Scripture to one (or more) of the Bible passages mentioned, and be with your Lord in this season as you meditate on Christ’s movement to the cross.
- “Introduction” xiii-xviii
- “Chapter One: Created to be with God” 1-6
- “It was very Good” 7-11
- “An Apocalypse of Dust” 12-16
- “Chapter 2: Stuck in the Sands of Time” 17-22
- “The Oppression of Time” 22-24; “Locked in History” 24-25
- “The Fruit of Idolatry” 25-29
- “The Space of Grace” 29-32
- “Chapter Three: Unlimited Limitation” 33-36
- “Fantasy Life” 36-40
- “Surprised by Frailty” 40-46
- “Chapter Four: Hiding in the Dust” 47-49; “The Dusty Road” 49-52
- “Hide and Cover” 52-57
- “Clothed by God” 57-60; “Worldly Strategies” 61-62; “Rest or Escape?” 62-63
- “Prayer as a Tool of Our Flesh” 63-68
- “Chapter Five: I am Dust: Now Everything Changes” 69-72
- “The Word Became Dust” 72-74; “Not by Magic” 74-76
- “The New Temple” 76-78; “Something Greater” 78-81; “The Son of Heaven and Dust” 81-82
- “It’s a Family Matter” 82-88
- “To Dust You Shall Return” 88-91; “Abba! Father!” 91-92
- “Chapter Six: The Son of the Beloved” 93-94; “Practice the Music” 94-99; “The Sheet Music of Prayer” 99-101
- “From Garden to Garden” 101-105
- “The Silence of the Cross” 105-111
- “Our Most True Selves” 112-116
- “Chapter 7: Following the One Who Prayed” 117-118; “The Abiding Life” 119-122
- “Praying to the Father” 122-128
- “Praying with the Pray-er” 128-130; “Recreated for Prayer” 130-131; “Grasping Prayer” 131-134
- “Chapter Eight: With God in the Temple” 135-136; “Starting at the End” 137-40
- “Taste and See” 140-141; “A Better Hope” 141-143
- “Praying in the Temple” 143-145; “Our Identity at the Throne of Grace” 145-148
- “Praying His Name in Vain” 148-149; “Standing Before the Father” 149-150
- “Life in the Temple” 150-156
- “Chapter Nine: The Silent Embrace” 157-159
- “The Experience of Love” 159-161
- “The God Who Prays” 161-166
- “God’s Life of Love” 167-168; “Entering God’s Rest”168-174
- “Walking Forward in Silence” 174-177
- “Practicing the Prayer of Silence” 177-179
- “Resting on God” 179-182
- “Afterword: Carving Out Space to be With God” 183-193