There are days where I can’t help but think how fortunate I am to be pastoring the folks at Central Baptist. Tonight, for the first time in several years, we hosted a week of the local Lenten Soup Supper & Worship 1. We’d dropped out when the kind soul who used to handle it laid…
Tag: Lent
Into the Wilderness
This would have been the sermon preached in worship on February 22, 2015 (had we not had to cancel). It’s based on 1 Peter 3:18-22. Jesus entered the “wilderness.” I begin this meditation with that idea, even though the word itself appears nowhere in the passage on which it’s based. Why would I do that? Well, in…
A Movement into Wilderness
The season of Lent began this week with Ash Wednesday. Lent, a forty day journey with Jesus, is a time of preparation. During this time we make space to pause, reflect, strengthen ourselves for the journey to come. This time of space comes to a climax with the events of Holy Week, and finds it’s…
Come, ye sinner, poor and needy
One of my favorite hymns is Come, ye sinners, poor and needy. I sometimes get some flak for selecting it because people see it as a “downer,” but I’ll take this hymn over 90% of the praise music we sing. It also ranks up there with some of the great theological hymns of the faith like A…
An introvert’s ideal season – Lent
Lent has come and I’m quite glad for it’s arrival. Over the years I’ve come to appreciate Lent more and more. It’s given me the opportunity to add disciplines to my spiritual life, set aside some good things in order to do other good things, and Journey with Christ on the way to the Cross. Lent…
A response to, “Five reasons to not give up something for Lent”
Update – looks like my comment on TC has be saved from moderation limbo, I’ll leave this up though since people are commenting. Well, over at Think Christian I came across this post entitled “Five Reasons Not To Give Up Something For Lent.” I posted these responses over in Think Christian – but the ether…
