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Last updated 5th February 2025

Bishops' Bible Study Resources

Hear Our Prayer: Bishop Philip's five week Lent course 

The Diocesan Lent Course, 'Hear our Prayer' - led by Bishop Philip - is now available on multiple channels.  Some of you may be using the Lent Devotional which is available on our Fruitful App which gives daily bible studies into the same five figures. This course compliments thiese and focuses in on their prayer life.

There are two parts to the Lent Course:

  • The guidance notes. These can be accessed below. 
  • The videos. There are five of these, each 15-20 minutes long. 

The videos and guidance notes are also available to view and download on our discipleship app, 'Fruitful'. They can also be accessed via our Diocesan YouTube channel here 

The ‘Hear our Prayer’ course has five sessions and examines the prayer lives of five Old Tesiment figures who prayed, how that relates to the prayer life of Jesus and by doing so, think about our prayer lives. The sessions are:

  • Personal Prayer (Hannah)
  • Ambitious Prayer (Elijah)
  • Hopeful Prayer (Ezekiel)
  • Communal Prayer (Esther)
  • Constant Prayer (Daniel)

If you are following this course as part of a group, there will be a chance for conversation and discussion. And most importantly, in each session, we will do some praying. For each session there will be:

  • Opening time of prayer
  • Listening to the Scriptures
  • Video talk
  • Discussion
  • Prayer Exercise
  • Closing prayer for Growth and Renewal

The course is designed to be reasonably simple for those who are leading it. It should require minimal preparation and can easily be led by a lay person. It could last anything between an hour and ninety minutes, depending on how long you wish the discussion to flow.

If you wish to know more about the technical side of accessing the Lent Course, please contact Sarah Marston (sarah.marston@blackburn.anglican.org). 

Transcripts and Guidance notes for Bishop Philip's Lent course

Video introduction to Bishop Philip's Lent course

All the Lent Course videos are now available on the Diocesan YouTube channel. You can download the videos to view offline from our discipleship App; Fruitful, and it's linked website, fruiful.faith.  

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