S5 33: Songs for the Valley of Lent with Sandra McCracken
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Lent is a time for reflection and reorientation toward Jesus. Good music can help us with both of these things. Today I get to talk with singer-songwriter Sandra McCracken about the practice of Lent and how hymns can help us face our humanity and bring it all to Jesus.
The Maker of the Mountain: A Story About What God is Like by Sandra McCracken and Tim Nicholson
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, you guys, every year at this time during the season of Lent, the Strong Women podcast team and I come up with some way for us to mark this time as different as a community. |
| 0:15.2 | And this year, we're bringing you the songs of Lent. Lent is a time to reflect on our need for salvation, repent of our sins, |
| 0:24.8 | and prepare to celebrate Christ's resurrection with a deeper gratitude. This free guide that we've |
| 0:31.8 | created for you guys with weekly hymns, prayers, and artwork is intended to help you do just that, to reflect and |
| 0:42.0 | overflow with gratitude at the work that Christ has done, and to prepare your hearts for this |
| 0:47.6 | feast, the biggest feast of the year in the church year, which is Easter. |
| 0:52.3 | In a noisy world, these truth-filled hymns |
| 0:54.8 | can help turn your heart to Christ in continual repentance and faith. |
| 0:59.8 | Starting on March 5th, join me and the strong women community |
| 1:03.6 | as we tune our hearts to sing His praise with the songs of Lent. |
| 1:08.2 | Download your free copy today at colsoncenter.org forward slash lint. |
| 1:25.3 | Welcome to the Strong Women Podcast, where we explore the beautifully diverse ways God invites and equips women to participate in his story. |
| 1:34.8 | We're here to encourage one another as we step out of the shallow definitions of what it means to be a woman and into the flourishing life that comes when we walk out our design. I'm your host, |
| 1:46.3 | Sarah Stone Street. I'm so glad you're here. Welcome back, everyone. I am so glad you're here with us today. |
| 1:55.2 | Before we jump into our conversation, I wanted to say a couple things. One, if you are enjoying this |
| 2:00.3 | podcast, would you share it with a |
| 2:01.9 | friend who you think would enjoy it as well? That's the best way for people to learn about these |
| 2:06.1 | amazing conversations with these fantastic women. So if you would just share this episode with |
| 2:11.8 | someone, that would be great. This is our third episode in our Lent series. And our Lent series goes along with a Lent resource that we have for you called |
| 2:22.1 | The Songs of Lent. |
| 2:24.0 | And in that, |
| 2:24.9 | you'll find a hymn for each week and reflection, |
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