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If I am counting correctly tomorrow brings us to the 20th day of Lent. We are essentially half-way through. How has it been? What have you been doing? What have you not been doing? What have you been noticing? What … Continue reading
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It seems for me “community” is the theme for this Lent. Everyplace, in email, on the internet, in conversations, the topic keeps coming up. Please allow me to share with you a few sentences from a post I recently came … Continue reading
And Lent begins today. Maybe you have already been reading and thinking about Ash Wednesday and Lent and I would like only to put one item before you today. I shared this prayer last year and I offer it again … Continue reading
Sunday morning I was looking over the Advent and Christmas songs in a hymnal (Celebrating Grace) and came across these lines in a litany – The time has come! God’s church relives the drama of the story we inhabit. … Continue reading
The days of Lent have moved on and in a few more days we will come to Palm Sunday. At some churches people will hear of Jesus’ “Triumphal Entry” into Jerusalem, and may see a few Palm branches, and some … Continue reading
A few days ago I was reading the lectionary readings for this Sunday and the passage from Philippians 3:4-14 struck me with particular force. What hit me so hard was, If anyone else has reason to be confident in the … Continue reading
Did you make room during these past days for the Lenten Prayer we shared last week? How did it go? I have to confess that I did not make time everyday to pray it but I did on several days … Continue reading
A few weeks ago I mentioned a couple of lenten devotionals that seemed to point toward finding balance in our lives. Several years ago I came across a lenten prayer that addresses in its own way some aspects of our … Continue reading
This past Monday as I looked over the many lenten readings in my email (maybe too many, but that is a discussion for another day) one especially caught my attention, “Forced Spirituality.” The writer begins with an account of a … Continue reading
A few days ago I saw on the High Calling website information about a Lenten devotional booklet ( http://www.thehighcalling.org/lent ) that can be downloaded or followed online. In the booklet Mark Roberts describes some of the things he finds Lent is and isn’t: … Continue reading