A Lent book with a powerful difference. For personal reading or group use, this best-selling book explores the significance of Lent and its climax in the pain and glory of Holy Week.

In this moving, often humorous, collection of stories and reflections, David Rhodes writes vividly of life on the streets of the inner city – and beyond – to help us explore what it means to live out the love of Christ in the world.
 

‘Each week Lenten Adventure takes one of the comfortable phrases of the much-loved Lord’s Prayer and renders it dangerous again. The result is some arresting juxtapositions which intrigue and surprise – and sometimes shock. But they are authentic to the Gospel in a way you can’t miss. And like the gospel narratives, they hang in the memory ...’
Janet Morley

‘Full of powerful stories and spiritual energy’
Church Times

‘Simple yet profound’
Flame

‘Compelling’
Pilgrim Post

‘A superb storyteller … this book is so hard to put down!’
Guild of Health
 

Material from this book was broadcast on the BBC television Good Friday programme, Passion in the City, presented by David Rhodes.

The royalties from this book are being shared by The Children’s Society in the UK, in support of its work for social justice, and the Bishop Simeon CR Trust in South Africa, which helps provide pre-school education for children in impoverished rural and urban areas.